"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
(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
1. ultimate motive = najwyższy motyw ultimate motive
2. immediate motive = natychmiastowy motyw immediate motive
  • In each case the police of Santa Carla could find clues, no witnesses, no clear or immediate motive, no marks or struggle, and no hint to the identities of the killers.
  • Cecil's immediate motive in proposing the peace Ballot was to outflank Lord Rothermere's claims of growing public support for his isolationist and anti-League position.
  • But they cast his immediate motive as a desire to resolve an embarrassing dispute over summer school.
  • Her seduction and rape by Gianettino Doria provide the immediate motive for the conspiracy.
  • The forced installation of the Qizilbash was the immediate motive for the uprising.
  • Drawing on 328 witness statements, federal investigators determined that the immediate motive behind the killings was vengeance.
  • Not the underlying psychological or social causes, but the immediate motive.
  • What immediate motive could a woman have for a series of homicides like this?
  • But the immediate motive?
  • The immediate motive of her testimony was a conversation that she had accidentally overheard on a railway journey.
(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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