Example sentences of "matter of [noun] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oakeshott argues that legal validity is a matter of authenticity rather than justice , whether justice is viewed in terms of intrinsic rationality , utility , or conformity to some fundamental law . |
| 2 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 3 | The growing independence of their children , at each successive stage , can be a matter of concern rather than joy for those who over-commit and over-identify their lives with the nurturing of dependent children . |
| 4 | And at this level of stressful incompetence , escape into averageness seems a matter of chance rather than will . |
| 5 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 6 | But even if you were you need n't expend any sympathy on my behalf — my tonsured condition is a matter of design rather than accident . |
| 7 | That we think of this fourth-dimensional aspect of our lives as being in a different ‘ category ’ from the rest is really a matter of perception rather than reality . |
| 8 | Pareto was more convinced that authority is simply a matter of fraud rather than self-justification by the elite . |
| 9 | As 1936 was to prove , however , for very many Spaniards the choice of accidentalism over fascism was a matter of tactics rather than conviction . |