Example sentences of "[verb] for its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ? |
| 2 | STYLISTICS , simply defined as the ( linguistic ) study of style , is rarely undertaken for its own sake , simply as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 3 | A related problem with copying other people 's arguments can be seen by comparing an excerpt from a plagiarised text ( a ) with the essay version derived from it ( b ) : ( a ) Stylistics , simply defined as the ( linguistic ) study of style , is rarely undertaken for its own sake , simply as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 4 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 5 | Each cylinder head ( ‘ pot ’ ) is individually cleaned and is readied for its own route through the system . |
| 6 | Certainly Americans and Australians could play sport for more of the year but they did so in a more positive , meritocratic context where success was admired and recognized for its own sake . |
| 7 | It would actually be competing for development that Selby wants for its own population . |
| 8 | It captures the idea that humanity should be respected for its own sake , so that people should not be treated in organizations solely as the means in an economizing process . |
| 9 | How far depended on a firm 's skills at trading for its own account . |
| 10 | For a start , making love does not have to consist of vaginal penetration ; and time spent reassuring , cuddling , caressing , fantasising and laughing together can be enjoyed for its own sake , or to reduce the tension so that you can relax sufficiently to enjoy intercourse . |
| 11 | But how and why this atomistic temporal concept , which Buddhism used for its own purposes , was adapted to the very different objects of Islam remains an open question . |
| 12 | But , to borrow ideas from Professor Charles Handy , partnership should still strive for its own immortality . |
| 13 | This means that it depends on the host 's cells ' own energy-producing system to provide for its own growth and reproduction . |
| 14 | A star may or may not be able to generate its own cash to provide for its own investment . |
| 15 | The subject can be pursued for its own satisfaction . |
| 16 | The content of education must therefore be that which men would wish to know for its own sake . |
| 17 | Each central village was probably reasonably self-sufficient in terms of weaving for its own clothing , although the wool may have come from downland farms specialising in sheep . |
| 18 | It is diverted to the alien nest where it drops into the cuckoo 's mouth the food that had been destined for its own young . |
| 19 | It was worth saving for its own sake , not just to give Jenny the peace she deserved . |
| 20 | For some reason many professionals believe that they must do all they have time to do for people with problems , though without thinking through their view that this is ‘ good ’ professional practice : it tends to be done for its own sake . |
| 21 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
| 22 | Analysis can be done for its own sake ( or pure knowledge ) in order to see into what parts something can be coherently divided . |
| 23 | What would knowledge be , collected for its own sake , for his own sake , that was , for James Blackadder , with no reference to the pickings , digestion and leavings of Randolph Henry Ash ? |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the Moldavian Popular Front on Oct. 25 appealed for its own " peacekeeping volunteers " to prevent Gagauz secession . |
| 25 | This is a cruder version of the 4000 link model which BR uses for its own network studies . |
| 26 | No doubt people must study management or business ; but until they cross the boundaries of the social or economic sciences — until the knowledge becomes such as is sought for its own sake and organised to illuminate human life and history — management and business studies are not education ; and then they are management and business studies no longer . |
| 27 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 28 | In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information . |
| 29 | But no land , nor any building , should be preserved for its own sake and remain unused . |
| 30 | will not attempt to register or use for its own benefit , or aid any third party in attempting to register or use , the Trade Marks or any trade mark the use of which would constitute an infringement of 's Trade Marks . |