Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] sake [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 2 | It is always good advice to read widely for the sake of your historical knowledge and understanding but also for the improvement of written English . |
| 3 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 4 | On Sunday they went up to the common , a performance ; lifting the pram , Emma still insisted on for the sake of Ruth 's spine , into and off the tube , the escalators . |
| 5 | Mercer Lorrimore 's colours , red and white like the rosette he had pinned on gamely For the Sake of Canadian Racing , could be seen entering the outermost stall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 8 | Like other young people , they want change if only for the sake of it . |
| 9 | The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness . |
| 10 | Health of body , health of mind and beauty are divided into separate chapters here only for the sake of giving information in a readily accessible way . |
| 11 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 12 | You would have thought that after so many months of bad publicity , they would have learned how to treat their clients , if only for the sake of their public-relations image . |
| 13 | As a responsible dog owner you must be prepared to deworm your dog regularly , not only for the sake of its health and other dogs , but also to protect people from the risk of the disease toxocariasis , as mentioned previously ( see page 36 ) . |
| 14 | This challenge is a peculiar one , at the moment , not merely because a good photographer must try ( if only for the sake of his own integrity ) to make something visually ‘ different ’ from the mass of photography which has gone before , but also because the Opera House is obscured at present by building operations . |
| 15 | Did he live with me only for the sake of appearances , perhaps ? |
| 16 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 17 | This challenge is a peculiar one , at the moment , not merely because a good photographer must try ( if only for the sake of his own integrity ) to make something visually ‘ different ’ from the mass of photography which has gone before , but also because the Opera House is obscured at present by building operations . |
| 18 | The historical legacy of women 's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice . |
| 19 | A hasty cover-up was necessary , if only for the sake of her pride . |
| 20 | Only for the sake of her own morale , she assured herself . |
| 21 | Here , we shall provisionally assume that whenever an adjective , e.g. long , is used , there is in the world which the speaker postulates ( if only for the sake of discussion ) some entity of which it is used , directly or indirectly . |
| 22 | Noting that the Marxist classics attribute great importance to the possibility of replacing officials , Hegedus argues that ‘ for the most part , administration involves the sort of functions where a planned rotation of official personnel is expedient not only for the sake of opposing bureaucratic tendencies but also for the sake of greater efficiency ’ . |
| 23 | It 's a terrible thing to have happened , but we have to be strong — if only for the sake of Emma and Sophie . ’ |
| 24 | It would be nice to have it in the bill , Hurd told MPs , but only for the sake of ‘ completeness and tidiness ’ . |
| 25 | They do n't want to risk a break-up — perhaps for the sake of the children , or because it suits them to be married for other reasons . |
| 26 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 27 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 28 | Mrs Jones was attacked at her home in the village of Hodson near Swindon all for the sake of sixty pounds . |
| 29 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 30 | 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 . |