Example sentences of "for [art] sake [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidelines took effect on 1 August , but there will be a transitional period for the sake of students and members who began their pre- or post-qualification training before that date . |
| 2 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 3 | Battling with the elements for the sake of art in Teesside HE 'S been picture framer , builder 's labourer and motor mechanic but always an artist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If Alger Hiss could betray his country for the sake of Communism — and he is still trying to establish his innocence — where else among the highest in the land might treason be found ? |
| 6 | The British became a dominant influence in Persian life during the nineteenth century ; but to this day many Persians believe that Britain merely exploited Persia for the sake of India throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 7 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 8 | For the sake of discussion , however , let us assume that bream layers are a fact in rivers and non-existent in stillwaters . |
| 9 | Let us , for the sake of discussion , entertain the alternative assumption that life has arisen only once , ever , and that was here on Earth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you prefer some other way of defining complexity , I do n't care and I would be happy to go along with your definition for the sake of discussion . |
| 12 | Most Chinese names have three characters , often for the sake of euphony , as with my own Chinese name where the final ‘ Fu ’ — meaning , man , husband , teacher , leader or father , is added to the characters for climbing ( Tdong ) — a family name , and happy ( lao ) to round out and complete the name . |
| 13 | It teaches a child to let go of his own will for the sake of others , with whom he has to live and let live . |
| 14 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 15 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 16 | Of these , some were present involuntarily , as hostages for their father 's good behaviour — Supplicius of Amboise , for example , had to put his son Hugh in Fulk le Réchin 's power as one of the terms of a peace treaty ; but others were the sons of friends or allies , sent to the prince 's court for the sake of education in knightly virtues , and to meet the men on whom their future political happiness could depend . |
| 17 | I would rather not have that on the subject reports but if it 's going to be on i for the sake of coherence the comments should be together . |
| 18 | Much more frequent mentions of captivi seem to refer to nobles , and one writer explicitly says that the reason the Vikings having arrived by boat then used horses was " so that they would be able to capture some nobles for the sake of money ( ransoms ) " . |
| 19 | Was it possible that for the sake of prayer and guidance of souls he had a calling to the unmarried state ? |
| 20 | Three Senior Professional Officers ( SPOs ) were rapidly appointed to County Hall posts to act as a channel of communication for the CMHTs ( for the sake of simplicity , the key contribution of the SPOs is subsumed to a large extent within our discussion of the CMHTs ) . |
| 21 | ( For the sake of simplicity , the two will be referred to here as ‘ Marx ’ unless otherwise specified . ) |
| 22 | For the sake of simplicity , the British breeds in the following sections have been divided partly by colour and partly by region . |
| 23 | For the sake of simplicity , we shall stick to analysing dichotomies , but the principles established in this chapter are easily extended to situations where the explanatory variables have three or more categories . |
| 24 | Other forms of taxation may be introduced as well , but for the sake of simplicity we will confine our discussion to income taxation . |
| 25 | For our purposes , and for the sake of simplicity , it will be easiest to retain the term ‘ Nazarean ’ . |
| 26 | These institutions will be referred to , for the sake of simplicity and anonymity , as A and B. The third institution was a polytechnic , and the interviews were with students from a department of communications and a department of physical science . |
| 27 | Criticism of the theories has been omitted from this chapter for the sake of simplicity . |
| 28 | For the sake of simplicity , this introductory chapter will concentrate upon one conflict theory : Marxism . |
| 29 | Whilst generalising for the sake of simplicity , the Commission does not believe that there is any essential conflict between these two categories . |
| 30 | Though we have begun by stating that some consonances are stronger than others , the difference is not striking , and for the sake of simplicity we intend to regard them as equal for this method of creating harmony . |