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

42.   What were his true motives for offering her the job?

43.   Who might have had a motive for killing him?

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

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

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

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

48.   His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.

49.   Must have had some esoteric motive for leaving his art collection to a museum halfway around the globe.