Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 2 | This rewriting of history was not so much a matter of starting again , but of making use , for a new purpose , of knowledge which was already available , whether in the work of philosophers like Hegel , economists like Ricardo , biologists like Darwin , or anthropologists . |
| 3 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 4 | It is not so much a matter of deciding in advance which activities and what kinds of adult input match the child 's level of development , either in terms of language or cognitive abilities ; rather , it is a matter of the adult being sensitive to the child 's changing communicative needs and adjusting her speech and actions from one moment to the next . |
| 5 | It is not so much a matter of praying together ( good though that is ) , but of being one in purpose and spirit . |
| 6 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 7 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 8 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 9 | Freedom , we now notice , is not always a higher ideal than those with which it competes , nor is rationality necessarily just a matter of self-interest . |
| 10 | It is n't very long Should n't be in there long just a matter of signing all the things , checking all the details over , putting in what he has n't filled in already . |
| 11 | Anorexia is much more a matter of pride . |
| 12 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 13 | If the courts are understandably reluctant to interfere where ‘ serious disorder ’ is concerned , what constitutes ‘ serious disruption to the life of the community ’ is much more a matter of judgment , and not one in which the police are necessarily more expert than the courts . |
| 14 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 15 | Nowadays it is much more a matter of choice . |
| 16 | Profit and loss from war was not necessarily always a matter of individual enterprise . |
| 17 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 18 | He cites ‘ the interest of scholarship and fair-mindedness ’ , which are as it happens rather grand terms , but is it not rather a matter of free speech than of insinuation or imprecation ? |
| 19 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 21 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 22 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 23 | This is not necessarily a matter of money . |
| 24 | By ‘ pure syntactic ambiguity ’ is meant ambiguity in which the variant readings of a sentence involve identical lexical units ; the ambiguity is thus necessarily a matter merely of the way the elements are grouped together . |
| 25 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 26 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
| 27 | The way that the school deals with these situations is not only a matter of effective communications but one of marketing . |
| 28 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 29 | It is not only a matter of two eyed vision , because one-eyed people can also do the trick . |
| 30 | This is not only a matter of common courtesy but will help create/ maintain your image as a good employer . |