Officials offered few clues as to a potential motive for the fires.

This in itself was damning because it provided a potential motive for Anne's behaviour.

Here, as elsewhere, therefore, no conclusive view of the relative importance of potential motives seems possible.

While there often are many legitimate reasons to vote against such things, this potential motive is not legitimate.

Moreover, reading between the lines, there is a potential financial motive, too: white paper fetches a higher price from commercial processers.

One of the nine points concerned Robin Bain's mental state and potential motive.

This established a potential motive for the two.

All this applies to our current agenda in that it gives us a potential motive for the two killings under investigation.

Or another potential motive willing to risk damnation as his punishment.

'If so, we've got a potential motive for the kidnapping.'