"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
1. strong motive = silny motyw strong motive
2. powerful motive = silny motyw powerful motive
3. compelling motive = wywołując motyw compelling motive
  • "But since I had no compelling motive, I kept looking for something else."
  • Similar were another 11 percent of rapists whose compelling motive is anger at the world at large.
  • An even more compelling motive might have been the prospect of losing the custody of her beloved children.
  • This well-selected show presents two dozen artists for whom patterning is a compelling motive.
  • And no other institution in Russia has a more compelling historical motive for fearing a Communist victory.
  • And there was no lack of compelling motive to drive her into action now.
  • It is the bohemianism, however, that points to the most compelling motive for Tarchetti's crime.
  • Certainly, boredom with the same old step aerobics and stair-climber is a compelling motive.
  • If equity is not a compelling motive to support the contract, self-interest might be.
  • Experience shows that the motive of gain is one of the most compelling motives in murder cases.
(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
(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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