1. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 

2. No motive for the killing has yet been established.

3. Her prime motive was personal ambition.

4. What was his motive for doing that?

5. What do you suppose the killer's motive was?

6. His motive for working so hard is that he needs money.

7. There seemed to be no clear motive for the attack.

8. His real motive for the crime remains obscure.

9. Sexual jealousy is a common motive for murder.

10. There may be a hidden motive for his departure.

11. Jealousy was assigned as motive for the crime.

12. The crime seemed to have been committed without motive.

13. His motive was plain greed.

14. He claimed that his motive for stealing was hunger.

15. Water provided the motive power for the mill.

16. The motive for the killing is unknown.

17. In the final analysis,(/motive.html) profit is the motive.

18. The capitalist system is based on the profit motive.

19. There seemed to be no motive for the murder.

20. Their motive was greed, pure and simple .

21. The police are still trying to establish a motive for the attack.

22. The motive for this shocking attack seems to be racial hatred.

23. She must have some ulterior motive for being nice to me—what does she really want?

24. Detectives have been unable to assign a motive for the murder.

25. So far, the police haven't got any clues as to the motive for the crime.

26. What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

27. All the evidence collected so far points to robbery as the motive of the crime.

28. Why would she have killed him? She has no motive.

29. In this trial two essential elements must be proven: motive and opportunity.

30. Envy like yours is a hell of a good motive for murder.

1. What was his motive for doing that?

2. What do you suppose the killer's motive was?

3. His motive for working so hard is that he needs money.

4. Why would she have killed him? She has no motive.

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31. He claims he just wants to help Lisa but I suspect he has an ulterior motive.

32. Police have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing.

33. The police have excluded robbery as a motive for the murder.

34. She definitely had an ulterior motive in offering to help.

35. What was their motive in setting fire to the building?

36. The motive power of trains is usually steam or electricity.

37. I did have some question as to his motive in coming.

38. It's not the kind of thing he'd do unless he had an ulterior motive .

39. There is no doubt about the motive behind it all.

40. The motive of the executions would be to instil fear.

41. I'd say he had a very strong motive for wanting her dead.

42. I put it to you that you are the only person who had a motive for the crime.

43. The police have excluded theft as a motive for the murder.

44. Even if we postulate that she had a motive for the murder(), that still doesn't mean she did it.

45. Can we assign jealousy as the motive for the crime?

46. The police could not find a motive for the murder.

47. I have an ulterior motive in offering to help you.

48. Their motive is money, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

49. He gives a lot of money to charity, but personal aggrandizement/self-aggrandizement is his motive.

50. Does he have a motive for lying about where he was?

51. We needn't assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.

52. Sheila had an ulterior motive for trying to help Stan.

53. After a crime, suspicion naturally falls on the person who has a motive for it.

54. The police believe the motive for this murder was jealousy.

55. The real motive for the enforced resignations remained unclear.

56. Nothing mattered except the profit motive.

57. There was no official word on a possible motive.

58. Police are puzzled at the motive for the attack.

59. Desire is a motive force, an attractive force.

60. An overwhelmingly strong motive made the ship anchor there.

61. But what other motive could there be for silence?

62. In this context the primary motive is increased sales.

63. The murders might have a political motive.

64. The motive for the murder was clearly revenge.

65. It was the motive force that powered the world.

66. There was the motive for the killing!

67. He had to have an ulterior motive.

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68. The other and perhaps stronger motive for regional bloc-building is the hope of increasing collective bargaining power.

69. Society and the church used to condemn the profit motive as sinful and wrong.

70. One fundamental motive is the desire of big corporations to boost earnings.

71. Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.

72. Mortensen had a double motive for going to San Francisco: to see his kids and to apply for a job.

73. The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education.

74. Marty social services are simply not well suited to companies whose basic motive is profit.

75. Such a motive had always existed throughout the world in business transactions.

76. Jamie had no idea of her real motive for searching the dead man's rooms.

77. The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.

78. How far was combating socialism the prime motive for the Liberal social reforms 1906-14? 2.

79. Worse still, they unintentionally fostered negative, adverse meanings that equated Tesseract with a profit motive that people did not trust.

80. Police say now believe the motive for the killing was robbery; a small amount of cash was taken from the till.

81. This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken.

82. An improper and dominant motive would have to be shown for revealing matters which would normally be in the public interest.

83. But while public provision does not preclude charitable giving, the existence of the profit motive in any service usually does.

84. Her second teacher was Miss Barnsdale, one of those who suspects a mean motive for everything.

85. Nearly every individual who participated in the decision to use the bomb had his own motive.

86. It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.

87. Anne herself was well aware of Joan's motive in accepting the suggestion with such alacrity.

88. Motivation means that you have a good motive for action.

89. The Conservatives have a tendency to believe that planning decisions can be taken on the profit motive.

90. A further motive for rethinking organisational structures has been the growing awareness of potential conflict of interest.

91. Actually, he invited me out tonight, probably with an ulterior motive.

92. The predominant motive for writing this type of history is to demonstrate chronological sequence.

93. Motive power was initially provided by the contractors: An 0-6-0 saddle tank, Fleetwood.

94. What is the motive of the people making this documentary?

95. The presence of a particular motive can only be inferred by working backwards from the behaviour itself.

96. The motive for the robbery was greed, pure and simple.

97. There appears to be no rational motive for the attack.

98. Rural Metro is driven by the profit motive(Sentence dictionary), a particularly powerful incentive in an employee-owned company.

99. Mr Donovan's motive had been to clear his name, not to close the magazine.

100. What possible motive could this round, friendly, most amiable of men have for murder?

101. And, of course, the motive power is inevitably steam but not, alas, genuine West Riding motive power.

102. Police and juvenile probation officials say they still have no motive for the attack.

103. Unless, that is, his motive was to supply the infantry with sprigs of mistletoe to give to their sweethearts at Christmas.

104. No ulterior motive lurks behind it, but it keeps you at a distance.

105. There one came to terms with obscurity, with low tones, one did not demand full clarity of mind or motive.

106. But whatever the motive, international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business.

107. The precautionary motive. Unforeseen circumstances can arise, such as a car breakdown.

108. This was frequently denounced by critics of the democracy on the grounds that it introduced a pecuniary motive.

109. Detectives puzzling over a motive say the girls were not sexually assaulted.

110. A political motive was clearly bound up with this economic activity.

111. In many ways, she would prefer not to know the identity or motive of her captors.

112. Also, he was not going to accept it, he was going to look for a real motive for this murder.

113. During its visit 2857 has provided the primary motive power on the railway.

114. Thus the political message of local elections provides another motive for ministers to deny their importance.

115. The profit motive is at the core of the capitalist system.

116. The motive behind this action is usually to reduce the chances of a police check of two on a motor bicycle.

117. Spurred by the profit motive, the shops tackled problems with a vengeance.

118. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer 

119. Police are investigating but said they had no clue as to the motive.

120. The fire, which caused damage valued at about ￡2,500, had been started deliberately but the motive was still not clear.

121. Business leaders are driven by the profit motive; government leaders are driven by the desire to get reelected.

122. But the motive for following a composite career is often not purely financial.

123. Investigators have yet to establish a motive, but a failed robbery attempt is a likely reason, Moen said.

124. Clarity appears in those self-directed exhortations of the novelist to elucidate Raskolnikov's motive for murder.

125. In other words, aggressive fantasy may suggest or stimulate aggressive behaviour, rather than drain off the motive to behave aggressively.

126. Police were also seeking a motive for an attempted pipe bomb attack on a house in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

127. We must beware of hysterical solutions to complex problems urged by people whose real motive is often hatred of industry and capitalism.

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128. The persuasive power of paternalism supplies the motive for this step to be taken.

129. Chief Superintendent Louis Munn said police were still trying to piece together exactly what happened and establish a motive for the attack.

130. Her main motive was simple: to retrieve the ring and thereby enable Rick to make peace with his family.

131. The second motive is a mixture of revenge and reproach.

132. An external motive can never inspire you. It will only motivate you to move, but you will soon stop. Seek inspiration! RVM 

133. If a national asylum were provided there would be no motive for concealment.

134. About the motive for killing him Place seemed less clear.

135. Richard Miles was known to smoke cannabis but police don't believe such drug use was a motive for murder.

136. Robbery was believed to be the motive for the killing.

137. Police would not speculate on a motive, except to say that Avanesian had a long-running dispute with his wife.

138. Police say the motive for the killing was an unpaid drug debt.

139. The motive behind much late nineteenth-century visiting was to put the social classes back in touch with one another.

140. She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive.

141. This was no crime without a motive, McGettigan told the jury in opening arguments.

142. Unbeknown to you the real motive is to question you in order to undermine your position.

143. Consequently, the calendar ceased to be the primary motive for celestial observation.

144. It was clear Mrs Baggley was, in her own way, making comments about a possible motive for Gray's murder.

145. The old formula distinguishing the motive to instruct or to amuse is of no service.

146. Even ten years later, he felt the sting of the rebuke, the motive for which he still fails to understand.

147. There was considerable debate within this school about the overlapping concepts of motive, determining tendency and set.

148. The question is the charge of gas, exploded in the cylinder head, which is the motive force of every piston-stroke.

149. But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.

150. The transactions motive simply means that firms must hold cash in order to conduct normal business transactions.

151. That, I believe, is the motive behind what they are doing.

152. Enjoy being radiant; who cares about the motive for the compliment?

153. Investigators have not found a convincing motive for the crime.

154. Police said yesterday there appeared to be no sectarian motive for the killing.

155. This critique of industrialism is, therefore, in attacking the profit motive, a critique of capitalism.

156. Moreover, there are certain mysteries that weave through life itself, human motive and human desire.

157. But it was not the Crown's invariable motive for summoning a Parliament.

158. Comparison and discrimination between children and schools is the essential motive for ranking children.

159. One motive, of course,(http:///motive.html) was his desperate need for some congenial company.

160. Other than the vision, no motive for the crime is apparent.

161. The attempt to make such distinctions clear was a strong motive behind the whole idea of formalism.

162. Police have said they know of no motive for the shooting.

163. The question of motive hangs over these first pages, and over the whole novel.

164. However, if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this.

165. However, for Guangming Ribao, all her appeals to students to end the demonstrations had an ulterior motive.

166. At what point does a state have a motive for keeping the smoking rolls up?

167. She would at once understand the motive and, however coldly she dealt with me, she would understand the necessity.

168. She was suspicious. Was there an ulterior motive behind his request?

169. But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems.

170. For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified.

171. The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service.

172. Careful investigation had revealed no other possible motive for the killing.

173. Money to help pay for ambitious future plans was at least one motive for seeking publication.

174. She felt suddenly sickened, reminded of her real motive for taking this job with Luke.

175. The two contentions can seem analogous, but the second concerns overt motive, the first a highly arguable interpretation.

176. The motive behind the killing of Agnes Law was robbery.

177. There was no motive, and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not.

178. Police are not sure whether the motive for Mrs Olds's murder had a political slant or was robbery.

179. Prosecutors contend the motive was hatred and greed for the parents' estate, once valued at $ 14 million.

180. The fact that gratitude is the motive of praise could not be more clearly expressed.

181. The motive force for this enthusiasm is not internationalism or an overdose of brotherly love, but the size of the market.

182. They're still trying to establish a motive for the stabbing of Richard Miles, who was found dead in his garden.

183. Interviewed at his Paddington studios, Sweet's wife, Audrey, could suggest no motive for the killing.

184. Resistance to change is used too often as an excuse for failure rather than a motive force for success.

185. An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.

186. Morris said that police have not determined a motive in the attack.

187. A member is entitled to a judgment that is free from any extraneous or ulterior motive.

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188. The absence of the profit motive as an incentive to efficiency does not adequately distinguish public and private employees.

189. He believed that nothing can be finally known that involves human motive and need.

190. He should be content instead with outlining the motive principle and not try to predicate any content to it.

191. There is an obvious social motive behind explanations with a sharing function.

192. It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband.

193. The primary motive is to free the self from a life that is necessarily rendered crass and degrading by society.

194. But Nietzsche's motive in opting for classical philology, when he finally did so, was not simple.

195. Wycliffe had no idea but surely not enough to provide a motive for murder.

196. In the end, seventeen different forms of motive power were on display along with a wide range of other railway related attractions.

197. But not all such changes are driven by the profit motive.

198. Many fail to realise that, due to obvious lack of water for motive power, it was ever a working mill.

199. It was an inspired piece of public relations, though more motivated by sheer pride and genuine gratification than any other motive.

200. My speculation over police motive could certainly be totally wrong.

201. And Troilus immediately confesses that this was his real motive behind his defence of the present Trojan stance.

202. Another distinction between human and animal behaviour is that considerations of motive are appropriate to the assessment of human action.

203. Colin Richardson, Mrs Godwin's neighbour, says Police believe the motive for the murders was robbery.

204. Now the motive is more often to allow multiple users to share data and applications.

205. The chances are we shall turn up some perfectly simple motive.

206. It was usually felt that the chap with his arm in a sling had an ulterior motive.

207. Giles's motive in telling her of his expectations was so transparent that she had lost interest in him.

208. What is the enterprise accounting policy choice motive?

209. Emotionality is the inner motive of the thought-of-singing.

210. Every business decision is based on the profit motive.

211. This motive had been a stock-in-trade of medieval art.

212. The motive that Eden Elves been created is to protect Elysium, they have taken this quest for ages, and they will keep making their task done.

213. The contemporary innovation of learning, as an undividable aspect of social progression, has been the motive force of the development of society.

214. This result may be eorrelated with the phase of recover process and unusualness of motive form.

215. Due to such motive, it is spared to uglify female and marriage. Thus romance killing female as a kind of ceremony to become sworn brothers.

216. Rapidly-growing Asian nations have also seen their foreign currency holdings swell as their economies outpace the rest of the world, providing another motive for diversification.

217. Officials with the group, known by its French acronym MSF, declined to speculate on a motive for the attack.

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218. Qingzhou series compound drive pump groups consists of the mating motive(diesel or motor), cardan shaft, reduction gearbox, clutch, coupling, coupled wheel, base, triangular belt and cleading .

219. The research on motive of auditor change always launches revolving the auditor's opinion purchase, and has obtained a series of research production.

220. The system adopts the semiconductor solid-state relay to control motive force electricity.

221. Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since after the initial outlay upon equipment.

222. Results: The 12 cases were demonstrated including 6 cases with generalized tonic-clonic seizure, 4 cases with status epilepticus, 1 case with partial motive seizure, 1 case without seizures.

223. The pulse Doppler(PD)radar technique in ground-based radar is mainly applied to detecting motive targets in strong clutter jamming circumstance.

224. In me the glory motive lingered sufficiently to prevent my contemplating a career as a cartographer or stamp dealer, despite those substantive interests.

225. Greed is often believed to be the motive, though the Gospel of Luke suggests that Judas was possessed by some devil.

226. But, the influence of inquiry teaching to the students'programming study motive is not remarkable. Finally, I list some problems in the research and put forward several teaching proposals.

227. He adheres to a self-styled"hacker ethic, "which justified any computer intrusion as long as the motive is pure.

228. Anyone speaking the truth, who dares to step out of line, is attacked by those whose motive is jealousy and fear.

229. There are many reasons that iniduals consider a small business besides the profit motive.

230. There exists a least value of the sum of motive power and heating power consumption costs in pipelining heated crude oil.

231. Factors related to the disposition type include motive, physique, pliability, coordination and artistic quality.

232. The development of universal banking represents an evolutionary process of natural history possessing profound macro-economic background and micro-economic motivation as well as its own motive force.

233. For motive power VRLA batteries, higher paste density of positive and higher tin content of positive grid alloy is helpful to increase the cycling life.

234. Analyzing exteriorly, Financing difficulty, Exterior auditing invalidation and nonstandard government action affect the motive of information disclosure of the private corporations.

235. They found no evidence of sexual deviance or pedophilia; they did not uncover any financial motive, either.

236. These changes shifted the motive power of the vessel away from oar-power and onto the three huge lateen sails.

237. Hunger could no longer be a motive, for Greek slaves supplied them with exquisite viands at the slightest nod.

238. Finally, coefficients of magnetic leakage and magnetic motive force loss were calculated in specific examples.

239. The paper analyses the local option, the industrial character and the motive of oversea Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia and its effects on Chinese economic development.

240. The value concept of human-centred thinking is the kernel spirit among them and is strong spiritual motive supporting the development of the news of the masses.

241. The officials said a suspect was arrested in the northern state of Baja California but a motive had not been determined.

242. Open-end fund market in China has a strong motive of speculation.

243. This paper analyzes the basic motive about entry in the view of industrial organization including expected post-entry return, market growth, career selection of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.

244. An artist can create audio and visual material under concrete motive treating it as a word in poem, and his poetize is also affected by musical and visual composition when layout its words.

245. In the fluid the motive pressure differences act on bodies in parallel motion. On the boundary surface the applied force of the motive pressure difference increases remarkably.

246. The main motive of social security system is to protect those puniness group. Social security system is the important character of social modernization and civilization.

247. Lose momentum and your forward thrust will be curtailed. If you ingest the animosity and acrimonious threats of the nay sayers you will be discouraged, and indeed that is their controlling motive.

248. The impulsive force of breath is the motive force of sound production when a person is singing; so it is the key link in vocal music training.

249. Joseph Alois Schumpeter thought the innovation is not only the motive of the social economic development but also the source of economic period.

250. According to the character of water hammer in long distance flat water supply pipe, the hazard of air chamber motive was analyses.

251. The impulse of appreciation of the beautiful in the writers created enough motive force for literature, and with the internal and external influences, the legendry emerged as the times demanded.

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252. It is proposed in this article that small towns should be dynamically planned, and the circulative accumulation is an important inner motive force for small towns' development.

253. Without assuming noble or self-sacrificing motive, each individual has, nevertheless, become a microcosm of the whole.

254. And in fact, be bought differently and the motive of mobile backside often cannot explain with onefold theory.

255. Plural relating is the fundamental feature of a system, and the source of motive power of the evolution of a system.

256. The special underwater fountain pump is the power motive system of the fountain. It has a completer sizes and a quality warranty. The sensitivity is controlled by the computer.

257. The desire to maintain slavery was not the least motive for the American war of independence, in which some blacks fought on the British side.

258. Nowadays, SMEs become an essential integrant of Ningbo national economy and a motive force, which promotes rapid and sound growth of economy.