"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

motive sustantivo

sustantivo + motive
Kolokacji: 3
profit motive • revenge motive • base motive
motive + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
motive appears • motive seems • motive includes • motive varies • motive prompts • ...
verbo + motive
Kolokacji: 14
question one's motives • understand one's motives • explain one's motives • see motives • reveal one's motives • ...
adjetivo + motive
Kolokacji: 93
ulterior motive • political motive • possible motive • real motive • true motive • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 29
(1) ulterior, hidden, secret
Kolokacji: 3
(4) strong, powerful, compelling
Kolokacji: 3
(6) personal, deep
Kolokacji: 2
(7) only, sole
Kolokacji: 2
(8) apparent, obvious, dominant
Kolokacji: 3
(9) different, similar, mixed
Kolokacji: 3
(13) economic, financial
Kolokacji: 2
(15) human, social, humanitarian
Kolokacji: 3
(16) high, noble, lofty
Kolokacji: 3
(17) racial, racist
Kolokacji: 2
1. racial motive = rasowy motyw racial motive
2. racist motive = rasistowski motyw racist motive
  • Interior Minister Otto Schily said it was reasonable to assume that the attack had a racist motive.
  • Has this final act revealed his true racist motives, motives of which he himself may have been unaware?
  • The board insisted that it was not acting on racist motives, but only that it was worried for the safety of its students.
  • In recent years judges have used this provision to increase sentences on the basis of racist motives.
  • But you don't need racist motives to explain the jogger story's appeal.
  • You can't say child-white, black or Klingon for all I know-had racist motives.
  • That doesn't mean, however, that the law must ignore racist motives, or any other motives, when punishing conduct.
  • Given these social and practical impediments to adoption of black children by white couples, her assertion that racist motives might be at play seems bizarre.
  • Many of the Duke supporters bitterly denied racist motives in supporting him.
  • Attacks against Romani people in Hungary have been recorded after the incident, however, there is no evidence of racist motive in either case.
(18) commercial, mercenary
Kolokacji: 2
(19) plausible, twisted
Kolokacji: 2
(20) psychological, rational
Kolokacji: 2
(23) unconscious, self-interested
Kolokacji: 2
(24) major, secondary, petty
Kolokacji: 3
(25) alleged, questionable, dubious
Kolokacji: 3
(26) known, unknown
Kolokacji: 2
(27) ultimate, immediate
Kolokacji: 2
(28) underlying, basic
Kolokacji: 2
(29) melodic, rhythmic
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + motive
Kolokacji: 13
of one's motives • about one's motives • on one's motives • with motives • for motives • ...

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