main motivation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandmotivation
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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motivation
noun
uk/ˌməʊ.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/us/ˌmoʊ.t̬əˈveɪ.ʃən/
enthusiasm for ...
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(Definition ofmainandmotivationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themainmotivationupon which this study relies is very simple.
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The control for diagnosed illness outweighed the effect of poor health as themainmotivationfor leaving the labour force.
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Themainmotivationfor participation was, not surprisingly, to reduce the risk of dying from cancer.
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Actually, this was amainmotivationfor the authors to look for a different language.
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So themainmotivationbehind this section was to air the issues rather than describe further technology.
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Themainmotivationof their study was to provide an effective criterion for the onset of the sweep.
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Themainmotivationfor this approach is that we can then be explicit about the steps involved in, say, addition.
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This is themainmotivationfor the appendix.
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But it seems that themainmotivationfor positing other unary-branching constructions is the need to shift the meaning of their single daughters.
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This is themainmotivationfor the present work.
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Avoiding aversives can become amainmotivationfor a child's behavior, and she or he may not be able to do so via effective means.
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The integration of composition and development facilities was themainmotivationbehind the library project.
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Amainmotivationof the framework is to ensure focus of dialogues while yet allowing for freedom to move alternative replies and to postpone replies.
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Themainmotivationin the research on bipedal locomotion is its much-needed mobility required for maneuvering in environments meant for humans or in rugged terrains.
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Themainmotivationis the hope of building systems that learn through trial-and-error interaction what constitutes a good dialogue strategy.
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Ourmainmotivationto design a more precise analysis was to be able to prove that the update-in-place property was preserved by the successive transformations.
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The phenomenon of vortex breakdown supplies us with themainmotivationfor the present study of large-amplitude waves, but other applications exist.
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This is themainmotivationexplaining the recent large interest in laserplasma experiments using foam targets.
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Amainmotivationfor introducing multivariate random environments is clear from a practical point of view.
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