Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether press standards declined after this was a matter for debate . |
| 2 | Sporting gentlemen of the pre-Victorian period saw no harm in making money through playing games so long as this was a matter of gambling ; nor did they mind mixing with others of a lower class , who derived the bulk of their income in this way , provided distinctions of birth were recognized and preserved . |
| 3 | The idea of the evening was primarily to get drunk , and this was a matter about which Lewis was exuberantly insistent . |
| 4 | While underlining the right of the East Germans to opt for unity with their fellow Germans in the Federal Republic , Dr Kohl said this was a matter for their own free choice . |
| 5 | This was a matter of mini-politics : the Shetland Branch of the NFU opposed an article for imposition , the crofters ' union supported the suggestion . |
| 6 | This was a matter both of the outlook of individuals and groups and the product of periodic reassessments by abolitionists of both circumstances and objectives and therefore of the most appropriate forms of activity . |
| 7 | By now the Boeing company had realised that this was a matter of fundamental importance to one of their primary aircraft types and they sent their top rank engineers and metallurgists to participate , under the supervision of American investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board , in the UK investigation . |
| 8 | The Court would however respectfully disagree with the observation made in Emerson that no purpose would be served by bringing the jury back into open court to hear the tape ; this was a matter for the judge 's discretion but the better practice would be for him to order the reassembling of the court so that the jury could hear the tape in open court . |
| 9 | It was not for the court to manipulate the sentence ; this was a matter for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of mercy . |
| 10 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 11 | The DES was somewhat curtly informed that this was a matter for the LEAs concerned . |
| 12 | This was a matter of some controversy during the passage of the Bill . |
| 13 | FitzGerald — that this was a matter which could be considered as soon as Lord Lowry passed on — being considered by the Government now ? |
| 14 | This was a matter of extreme concern — with its many implications , for both jurisdictions of Church and State . |
| 15 | Chief Superintendent Large had been polite but made it clear that this was a matter for professionals and he had everything sewn up . |
| 16 | Partly this was a matter of timing : both approaches penetrated the mainstream of macroeconomics at more or less the same time . |
| 17 | The Commission said , however , that it would be up to member states to propose and enforce measures protecting environmentally sensitive areas from shipping , as this was a matter of national , rather than Community , jurisdiction . |
| 18 | However this was a matter which he thought might be resolved at the trial . |
| 19 | One of these was a matter of internal consistency . |
| 20 | But the Law Lords unanimously decided that he was obliged to have regard only to ‘ material considerations ’ and that the amount of weight to be given to these was a matter for his judgment . |
| 21 | As part of a journalistic and sociological school of film-viewing , Haskell 's work tended to ask ‘ why this film now ? ’ ; this approach assumes by and large that unambiguous answers can be given , that ideology ( sexism ) can be ‘ read off ’ the film text , as , for example , in Haskell 's well-known argument that the violence against women and the absence of big female leading parts in the films of the 1970s was a matter of a backlash against an emerging women 's movement . |
| 22 | But that was a matter of choice ; there were some people I did n't like , and many more that I did n't even know . |
| 23 | That was a matter for the pope . |
| 24 | He said also that my " values " were not good , distance and middle distance and foreground all rather muddled , but that was a matter of study . |
| 25 | However , that was a matter which SACHR raised with me only this week and made it clear that it was a subject to which it would return . |
| 26 | Thus it was submitted that the question whether the death was in this case natural or unnatural was a matter exclusively for the coroner whose decision can be reviewed only on the basis that no coroner could reasonably have reached the conclusion arrived at here . |