31.   Actually, it is the motive of Huizenga and his likely co-conspirators that is causing us to hold our nose.

32.   AIDS advocates worry that, despite such reassurances, the ulterior motive of conservative lawmakers is to reduce the federal commitment to AIDS.

33.   But he declined to speculate on the motives of the Yugoslav leader, who has rejected NATO demands that he cease hostilities against the ethnic Albanian separatists of Kosovo.

34.   But he questioned the motives of full-time workers such as Grant, Marbach and Chambers.

35.   But Culp also questioned the motives of abortion-rights activists who were planning to attend.

36.   But he emphasized that everyone should be conscious of the motives of those who killed Wright and those who claim to be carrying out murders to avenge Wright.

37.   But how profound a change this is for the rest of us depends on how one views the motives of the ring . . . er, smoke-ring master.

38.   But Lebed suggested that the identity and motive of the attackers were unknown.

39.   But privately, some Democratic strategists say they are suspicious of the motives of the Bush administration.

40.   But the authorities are revising important assumptions about the background and motives of the criminal.