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

2.   Concern was her prime motive in visiting Mrs Green.

3.   I began to suspect his motives in inviting me.

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

5.   She suspected his motives in asking her.

6.   There May, of course, be other motives in all this.

7.   I suspected his motives in giving me the money.

8.   His motives in choosing a career were purely mercenary.

9.   Their motive in running away was to avoid being punished.

10.   And she knew, too, that having this queer ambivalent feeling about Matthew herself, her motives in bearing tales would not stand examination.