Example sentences of "[verb] be a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the extent to which this happens , and to which aid itself directly finances consumption , for instance paying the salaries of local staff , has been a matter of controversy among economists . |
| 2 | The whole question of the ideal size for a public library authority has been a matter of some controversy in Britain since the publication of the McColvin report in 1943 . |
| 3 | So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire . |
| 4 | The nature of that development , however , has been a matter of some dispute . |
| 5 | The extent to which such an understanding is justified has been a matter of some debate , not only at the local level , but in terms of national politics , and even politics within the EC . |
| 6 | The incorporation of the Convention into the domestic law of the United Kingdom has been a matter of debate for some years now and is probably not far off . |
| 7 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 8 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 9 | Whether to reclaim or reject this term has been a matter of some debate in Black communities . ) |
| 10 | For them this has been a matter of necessity . |
| 11 | The question of the appropriateness of nursery curricula in particular and other pre-school opportunities in general has been a matter for debate for a number of years ( Tizard 1974 ) . |
| 12 | Alan butcher 's calf injury has been a matter of growing concern . |
| 13 | It has been a matter of controversy whether the non-associative kinds of learning are really learning at all , and if so , whether they do not really take place by the same general mechanisms as associative learning . |
| 14 | Third , it has been a matter of concern to the DES that an authority could promote advanced courses secure in the knowledge that , once in operation , the major proportion of the cost would be chargeable against the pool . |
| 15 | The degree of overseas investment has been a matter for continuous criticism from the left of British politics with occasional suggestions that a future Labour government should take steps to penalise companies with ‘ excessive ’ overseas investments . |
| 16 | In Marxist thought and practice this relation is posed as one between class and party , and it has been a matter of controversy since the end of the nineteenth century , expressed in the most diverse forms , extending from Michels ' reflections upon the ‘ iron law of oligarchy ’ to Lenin 's conception of the Bolshevik Party , theoretically elaborated by Lukács . |
| 17 | Recognition has been a matter of timing and judgment — a phrase that I have often used before . |
| 18 | I know that my hon. Friend is aware that the waiting list for treatment of coronary disease has been a matter of concern in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | SIR , — Gender verification of Olympic athletes has been a matter for discussion since the first analyses were done in Mexico in 1968 . |
| 20 | It has been a matter of debate because there are those in the council who feel that if you put in a contingency provision it will be spent whether it 's needed or not . |
| 21 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 22 | Society too , of course , changes ( and helps to change us ) , but whether it develops and matures is a matter for another debate . |
| 23 | Just how much Mr Gorbachev 's armtwisting mattered is a matter of conjecture . |
| 24 | Those negotiations are a matter for the liquidator and shareholders , and the question of what the court should do is a matter for the court and the parties before it , not the Government . |
| 25 | The manner in which the point of law is to be decided is a matter for agreement between the parties and the expert . |
| 26 | Whether or not a retention is made is a matter of negotiation . |
| 27 | The President of United Motors — who was in London at that moment — had also declined to comment on a local issue which , he had said was a matter for local management . |
| 28 | Another example is the Social Charter , which we are told is a matter for European Community control because of its potential effects on the competitiveness of business . |
| 29 | Generalizing is a matter of saying what else things identified by the same concept have in common , not as a matter of logic but as a matter of fact . |
| 30 | Occasionally , Galileo described actual experiments , for instance , experiments involving the rolling of spheres down inclined planes , although just how many of these Galileo actually performed is a matter of some dispute . |