Example sentences of "for [pron] [adj] sake [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | But buying equipment for its own sake is pointless . |
| 4 | First , originality for its own sake is even worse than the unattached attention-getting device : it can actually detract from the product and the message of the ad . |
| 5 | I would simply like to point out that the protection of the countryside and agricultural land for its own sake is the policy that should be er er applied in this case , and I just want to make that point . |
| 6 | Erm I just do n't I I I simply want to make the point that the protection of the countryside for its own sake is planning policy which must be brought within the of that criterion . |
| 7 | The concept of play as an activity entered into with delight for its own sake is important for both the theology and the psychology of religion . |
| 8 | By the end of the century landscape painting for its own sake was established . |
| 9 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |
| 10 | Also at the time I do n't think that in terms of national recognition that the idea of protecting the countryside for its own sake was terribly well developed . |
| 11 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |