Example sentences of "for the sake [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the roads on which he drives it also go through most of the art produced in the last half century — shall we say for the sake of convenience , since the death of Trotsky ; or in a more apt frame of reference , since Guernica ? |
| 32 | For the sake of your health make a determined effort to stop smoking . |
| 33 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 34 | It should be added that for the sake of building up a realistic scenario for the exercise , incidents involving ‘ enemy ’ forces are interjected . |
| 35 | Where vaned cowls are to be replaced , it is not advisable for them to be fixed in place , not only for the sake of authenticity , but also to simplify maintenance . |
| 36 | The range is so impressive — everything from Lucretius to Tristram Shandy , from Virgil to Kinglake , from Beowulf to T. S. Eliot has been absorbed , not for the sake of being bookish but always — one feels — in an outward-looking manner . |
| 37 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 38 | But for the sake of the pigs we would obviously prefer Sir Richard 's shorter phasing-out period . ’ |
| 39 | For the sake of these children they MUST . |
| 40 | ‘ How does it work ? , ’ he asked for the sake of British tabloid papers . |
| 41 | Its object in rerunning the debates of the 70s was to provoke bad industrial relations for the sake of the Tory party . |
| 42 | When people are attempting to be different for the sake of it , I find it incredibly irritating . ’ |
| 43 | Pugin was not trying to be different for the sake of it ; his medieval revival was born from a genuine moral and religious fervour . |
| 44 | Famine at home did not deter the Tsars from exporting grain ; Stalin took a similarly hard-nosed approach , rationed consumption at home and sold abroad for the sake of political influence and foreign exchange . |
| 45 | The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock . |
| 46 | Most of the 2 million who belong to the National Trust ( one of the fifteen ) do so for the sake of visiting the houses it preserves , not because it is green . |
| 47 | The South 's case is that for the sake of the ever-improving standards of life which the North 's electorates demand , it squanders resources , poisons the atmosphere and then , to stem the environmental degradation it has caused , demands that the impoverished South forgo equality with the North in the name of salvation ! |
| 48 | Most were economic refugees , but there were many who claimed to be environmental refugees leaving for the sake of their health . |
| 49 | You go and get Tristram out of durance vile , helped or handicapped by Jeremy — for the sake of his talent , if nothing else . |
| 50 | I only looked for the sake of form . |
| 51 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 52 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
| 53 | The British government , for the sake of the world trading system and the welfare of its people , ought to support this vulnerable initiative . |
| 54 | Mouse pups born in Dr Friedler 's laboratory weighed less at birth and failed to grow or mature as fast as those born of fathers treated ( for the sake of comparison ) with either salt-water injections or compressed air . |
| 55 | For the sake of the stability of the continent , ‘ bona fide ’ Europeans ought to be sure what they think . |
| 56 | Whatever made you think that the idea — of course quite impossible , though for the sake of argument we will not imagine it so — myself and Edward going away together was simply unconventional . |
| 57 | We had reached a position of stalemate — but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled . |
| 58 | The problem comes in many forms , but for the sake of brevity let me concentrate on pollution . |
| 59 | ‘ I was talking to Mrs Jones today and she said — ‘ ) Neither felt the need of talking , for the sake of talking . |
| 60 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |