Example sentences of "for their [adj] sake " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some things which no one would wish to know for their own sake , some subjects which have no possibility of being endowed with general significance . |
| 2 | Chores are kept to sensible levels of cleanliness and tidiness — no more the mindless round of polishing and ‘ dagging ’ for their own sake . |
| 3 | ‘ Images ’ were a sort of charade , amateur theatricals to grace the hard face of commerce , and they became popular for their own sake . |
| 4 | Irvin Ehrenpreis claims , for example , that ‘ Wordsworth 's sympathetic , even rapt interest in common people for their own sake is hard to discover in the verse or prose of an earlier writer . ’ |
| 5 | Adult literacy campaigns ( particularly for women ) , rural employment generation , and land reform or land redistribution which all might have helped to provide a decision-making environment for a small family , as well as other benefits for their own sake , remained at the stage of inaugural addresses , or insignificant pilot projects . |
| 6 | Meanwhile my interest in the film industry through Hellen Semmens was not the only reason for becoming an active member of the Vancouver Film Society — I have always been interested in films for their own sake . |
| 7 | This state is characterised by a full differentiation of the individual as a person ( through the ego process ) from objects which can then be valued for their own sake and can be related with in both a giving and receiving fashion . |
| 8 | Elena 's specific role in the nightmarish final decade of the couple 's rule in Romania was to flatter the Comrade 's love of statistics for their own sake in the most personal and private area of life : childbirth . |
| 9 | Yet curiously enough , he was not particularly interested in animals for their own sake , either . |
| 10 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 11 | Strangely , it has taken the nursing education establishment in Britain until now to recognise the value of debate , and the need to educate nurses for their own sake , as well as in the interests of patient care . |
| 12 | In line with recent methodological trends , the stories are enjoyable for their own sake , and aim to resemble as closely as possible the style of book children would choose to read in their first language . |
| 13 | Another aspect of these aims was the powerful attraction of establishing international companies for their own sake . |
| 14 | But the FOBs have , in the past , liked their man not just because he was interested in ideas for their own sake , but because he wanted to apply them to government . |
| 15 | The method used is one where the development of skills and ideas takes precedence over the accumulation of academic facts for their own sake . |
| 16 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |
| 17 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 18 | Youth , when death has no reality ( she does n't mean fear of death , children can have that ) , and our actions and pleasures are for their own sake , for what they are now and new . |
| 19 | He notes the self-perpetuating nature of modern mass production : ‘ Thus vast supplies of products come into existence which call forth an artificial demand that is senseless from the perspective of the subject 's culture ’ ( 1968 : 43 ) , and argues that just as academic pursuits such as philology and archaeology , which start with certain aims , may develop as methods creating infinite classificatory refinements for their own sake , so people may become the mere instrument of that which they originally developed : ‘ The infinitely growing supply of objectified spirit places demands upon the subject , creates desires in him , hits him with feelings of individual inadequacy and helplessness , throws him into total relationships from whose impact he can not with-draw , although he can not master their particular contents ’ ( 1968 : 44 ) . |
| 20 | A particular effort is in any case demanded , to ensure a supply of trebles both for their own sake and in order to provide the tenors and basses of the future . |
| 21 | Higher education is also affected indirectly by the enterprise culture in that education is treated as a commodity like any other , and study and education for their own sake is no longer respectable . |
| 22 | From his response to the huge volume of encrypted data that Coleman was sending twice a week to his DIA number in Maryland , Donleavy was interested in his reports , not just for their own sake , but as a means of cross-checking the official inter-agency pooling of information by the DEA and CIA . |
| 23 | That is the reasoning behind the pleas for some allocation of R & D Funds to basic research where this sort of behaviour would be encouraged ( the following up of leads for their own sake ) . |
| 24 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 25 | When Lord Justice Woolf argues that improved conditions should not be provided ‘ for their own sake ’ , I think he is mistaken . |
| 26 | It would have thrown light on Eliot 's attitude to the liturgy and to the drama , which in his view were indissolubly linked , though he realized the temptation to enjoy the emotions of the Mass for their own sake ; a point he had made in his ‘ Dialogue on Poetic Drama ’ . |
| 27 | Studying the history of other societies from their own perspectives and for their own sake counteracts tendencies to insularity , without devaluing British achievements , values and traditions ; vi ) to train the mind by means of disciplined study . |