Example sentences of "[conj] only for the sake " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like other young people , they want change if only for the sake of it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A hasty cover-up was necessary , if only for the sake of her pride . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's a terrible thing to have happened , but we have to be strong — if only for the sake of Emma and Sophie . ’ |
| 10 | It would be nice to have it in the bill , Hurd told MPs , but only for the sake of ‘ completeness and tidiness ’ . |