Example sentences of "for [pron] [adj] sake " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 2 | For my own sake , final chance , etcetera , etcetera , ’ he said impatiently . |
| 3 | But I felt I could n't give up , for my own sake or the baby 's . |
| 4 | ‘ For my own sake , to clear my name . ’ |
| 5 | For my own sake , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | I was fighting not just for my own sake , but for his too : I did not see why he should not permit himself to love . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is fortunate for my own sake that I have no further letter now . ’ |
| 8 | Because I 'm already vulnerable enough where you 're concerned and for my own sake I have to hold on to some degree of control . |
| 9 | Not for a job , but for my own sake . |
| 10 | She would have to exert her will and fight against the pain-consuming darkness , if not for her own sake , then for theirs . |
| 11 | Inevitably she got down , and the day came when she had to go , for her own sake really . |
| 12 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 13 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
| 14 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 15 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 16 | But , I repeat , Dostoevsky wanted the cap for its own sake . |
| 17 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 18 | Who , after all , is in favour of conflict for its own sake ? |
| 19 | The study of something for its own sake , for the sake of knowing , understanding , grasping it and for nothing else , is an essential characteristic of education , lower or higher , though more obviously of higher education . |
| 20 | The content of education must therefore be that which men would wish to know for its own sake . |
| 21 | The knowledge which men desire for its own sake is never mere information , mere acquisition of separate isolated facts , like trains in a timetable , or careers in Who 's Who ? |
| 22 | No doubt people must study management or business ; but until they cross the boundaries of the social or economic sciences — until the knowledge becomes such as is sought for its own sake and organised to illuminate human life and history — management and business studies are not education ; and then they are management and business studies no longer . |
| 23 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 24 | It is a place where there live side by side in mutual intercourse persons whose life is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake , regardless of the consequences or applications of the knowledge thus acquired . |
| 25 | It is a place to which resort , during the formative years of early adult life , those desirous and capable of learning how people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake go about their business . |
| 26 | It is possible to pursue knowledge for its own sake in isolation , in a hermit existence ; but the outcome is impoverished and the happiness is diminished thereby . |
| 27 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 28 | The astonishing achievements of Western civilisation in controlling and exploring the resources of the world , and the consequent increase in material wealth and standards of living , would not have taken place if the procurement of knowledge for its own sake had not mapped out the paths of which technology and investment for profit thereafter took advantage . |
| 29 | Those whose business is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake recognise their fellows : there is a community between them which they acknowledge because their mutual cross-fertilisation depends upon the underlying unity of human inquisitiveness in all its manifestations . |
| 30 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |