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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The farming achievements of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also motivated by the need for more food.
▪ Takla Haymanot of Gojjam, another of John's powerful and ambitious subjects, was also motivated solely by self-interest.
▪ A more general consideration also motivates us to include semantics in the grammar of a language.
▪ It is also motivated by psycholinguistic evidence, although we make no claims of psychological reality for the model.
highly
▪ They are highly motivated and rarely compromise.
▪ A highly intelligent, highly motivated, and extremely personable young woman, Crystal has had numerous supports along the way.
▪ It is essential therefore that the managers are highly motivated.
▪ Highly motivated and highly skilled individuals will prosper in this environment.
▪ Students are highly motivated, participate actively in the learning process and receive feedback as to the progress made.
▪ Like most epileptics who are surgical candidates, Neil is highly motivated.
▪ It was a motley but highly motivated crew, and in a poll with just 32 % turnout that did the trick.
▪ Immigrants tend to be a highly motivated, self-selected group with a strong will to succeed.
more
▪ No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
▪ It was an inspired piece of public relations, though more motivated by sheer pride and genuine gratification than any other motive.
▪ Most historians see Montgomerie as a rather unstable figure, motivated more by ambition than political principle.
politically
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it's politically motivated.
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ Councils are going back to being politically motivated and this is not a good thing.
▪ But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated.
▪ There were no signs that the attack had been politically motivated.
▪ She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated.
primarily
▪ He, and the leaders of the extremist parties in coalition with him, are motivated primarily by ideology.
▪ And although the Buddhist monk who shot him dead was motivated primarily by personal grievances, this chauvinism played a part.
▪ The rational-economic individual is primarily motivated by economic incentives.
racially
▪ Superintendent Mark Whyman said no one had described the initial fights as racially motivated.
▪ Some students at Andress High School said the fight was racially motivated.
▪ Police are treating it as a racially motivated attack.
▪ Shootings and other racially motivated violence perpetrated by private citizens continued to the end of the Carter years.
▪ Perhaps not surprisingly given this, they believed that crime against them was racially motivated.
▪ In New York a series of events caused blacks to mobilize against racially motivated violence and exacerbated race relations in the city.
▪ The disagreement weakened efforts to demand positive government policy and to insist that perpetrators of racially motivated violence against blacks be punished.
▪ Willie Brown isn't perfect, I know that, but some of the attacks are racially motivated.
strongly
▪ Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children's day centre or nursery school.
▪ He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again.
▪ This is most appropriate for research situations where the teachers themselves are strongly motivated and committed to the research.
▪ These users are very strongly motivated and persistent.
well
▪ The family doctor may choose to manage patients who are well motivated and not severely emaciated.
▪ I was well motivated and certainly used to studying and figuring out how things work.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players, Docherty's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty.
▪ What matters is your ability to motivate people, and that is kind of a nebulous term.
▪ Charismatic authority - this is where authority rests on the ability to motivate others by the strength of personality.
action
▪ He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing.
▪ You will need to he motivated into action.
▪ People can be motivated to take action in defence of some one who can protect them from the effects of industrialism.
child
▪ It is parents who have to produce healthy, motivated children before the education process can begin.
▪ You encourage or motivate your child by reinforcing his/her efforts, but this isn't as straight forward as you might think.
▪ Did the pictures motivate the children? 4.
▪ Although reward may not represent very much extra incentive for the bright and successful, it motivates the unsuccessful child highly.
▪ Is it the teacher's job to motivate the child at school?
concern
▪ Inpart they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs.
▪ The brick story that dominated 1986 and 1987 was essentially motivated by concern about how the exterior would look.
▪ The Prime Minister was clearly motivated by growing public concern about education and the work of the schools.
▪ On the other hand, Congress was motivated by ideological concerns.
consideration
▪ The use of penalties to choose the bounding variable is motivated by two considerations.
▪ However, the overture also appears to have been motivated by economic considerations.
desire
▪ The pact was ostensibly motivated by a desire to eradicate political dynasties and corruption in favour of political renovation and democratic change.
▪ In other words, behavior is generally motivated by a desire to attain some goal.
▪ All that is motivated by their desire to compete against rugby league.
▪ What motivated my desire to write about the homeless from the position of that doorway was a woman named Gerri Willinger.
▪ It may well be that, throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs. 2.
▪ Hubbell was motivated by a desire to protect the Clintons, the senators suggested.
▪ If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs.
▪ He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again.
fear
▪ Religion, Professor Berti continues, is the term for this subordination of reason to imagination, a subordination motivated by fear.
▪ This diminishes the chances of accidental war or pre-emptive strikes motivated by unfounded fears.
▪ However, the fun-lover is motivated by a fear of pain, which he or she tries to escape.
group
▪ Immigrants tend to be a highly motivated, self-selected group with a strong will to succeed.
money
▪ He doesn't believe that extra money motivates, whether that money be a bonus, profit sharing or a salary increase.
▪ This means that advertisers have to produce commercials that will be noticed and will motivate viewers to spend money.
▪ The directly employed building operative may be motivated by factors other than money incentives.
need
▪ The farming achievements of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also motivated by the need for more food.
▪ The sub-contractor is motivated by the need to maximise his earnings.
▪ It's argued that psychoanalysts are motivated by the need to influence and control.
▪ We are motivated by our needs when they are not satisfied.
part
▪ Loss of momentum occurs when other people are not motivated to do their part.
▪ Johnson's triumph led to racially-motivated riots in parts of the United States. 8.
people
▪ The first question concerns the individual, structural, and cultural factors that motivate people to rebel.
▪ What matters is your ability to motivate people, and that is kind of a nebulous term.
▪ Want to motivate and lead other people.
▪ Many theories exist about what motivates people and why.
▪ Whatever motivates you is most likely to motivate your people too.
▪ The food delivery service, according to Lane, should be used to motivate people to improve their lives.
▪ Compact aims to motivate young people to improve their educational achievements.
▪ Watergate, the political scandal that so motivated these young people, is 25 years old this year.
staff
▪ Similarly, challenging objectives should motivate staff and encourage creativity.
▪ Or through their charisma, reputation, energy, or sheer popularity - qualities which help win business and motivate staff.
▪ As long as this biased reward system persists, motivating teaching staff to improve the training of medical students will be difficult.
▪ Management have the responsibility for accomplishing these objectives; it is their responsibility to motivate staff and direct activities.
student
▪ The final chapter, Chapter 8, provides very useful guidance in further reading which can be invaluable to the motivated student.
team
▪ Do any offer help to the project manager in motivating the team?
▪ Jobs claimed that he could motivate the team to complete the project in little more than a year.
▪ His greatest quality is the way he motivates his team.
▪ Successful background in driving tasks and projects, and effectively motivating a team towards achievement of goals.
work
▪ The family needs to be motivated to make this work.
▪ To be sure, dressing up the college admissions application often motivates the teen charity work, but so what?
▪ The demonstration was motivated by theoretical work which provides the real justification for the interpretation given.
▪ Content theories are concerned with explaining those things which actually motivate people at work arising from needs, expectations and goals.
■ VERB
help
▪ An earnout may help to continue to motivate the vendors and secure their services even after they have received the initial consideration.
▪ That would also help him with motivating and evaluating the site supervisors who reported to him now.
▪ Motivating others Memos are sometimes used to help motivate others.
seem
▪ According to the Description Theory, names mean some definite description, but none seems motivated or necessary.
▪ Neely and the team seem to have been motivated by the turmoil.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
politically/economically/financially etc motivated
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated.
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ Yet because they are politically motivated they may be, in some degree, distrusted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Every good teacher knows that criticism does not motivate learners.
▪ He was motivated by a desire to help his fellow man.
▪ I don't know what motivates people to commit such crimes.
▪ It's frustration that motivates babies to learn to walk.
▪ It's often more difficult to motivate boys than girls.
▪ Many in the Asian community feel that the police actions were motivated by racial bias.
▪ Not all people are motivated by self-interest.
▪ Only one third of workers said their supervisors know what motivates them to do their best work.
▪ What can we do to motivate the players?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Haguellar had successfully used the Davis Cup carrot to motivate his lower ranked players.
▪ Ironically, it was the fear of congressional action against noncitizens that had finally motivated him to apply for citizenship.
▪ It may even motivate his crowd.
▪ It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him.
▪ To motivate others to implement their decisions, they need strong leadership qualities.
▪ Whatever motivates you is most likely to motivate your people too.