Sentence examples for or motives from inspiring English sources

There exists literature on the motivations or motives of students in entering medical study (McManus et al. 2006; Millan et al. 2005; Nieuwhof et al. 2005; Vaglum et al. 1999), but once the students start their medical study, very little is known about what happens to their motivation (Sobral 2004).

Yet the true bent of Romantic composers was toward combinations of motives (small melodic fragments), use of motivic accompaniments against themes, and, later, of the combination of leitmotifs, or motives with significance beyond the music itself.

There was no word on any suspects or motives.

The players' myriad naive or optimistic misreadings of others' temperament or motives add that much more.

At this stage, not much is known for sure about the attacker's affiliations or motives.

Anyone who suspected Stevens' commitment or motives needn't have waited until 9 February for an answer.

Whatever Allen's needs or motives, a change of light and scenery was obviously good for him.

Readers, however, did not know enough to judge the person's reliability or motives.

Meaning seems to reside less in the actions or motives of characters than in the atmosphere that envelopes them.

2. Figures or motives, small fragments of a theme, are grouped into new melodies in the "development" of a sonata.

No specific suspects or motives have been found for the political killings of the past four months.