Example sentences of "[det] a matter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is this a matter of division between a pro-government side and an anti-government one . |
| 2 | Well , with the coffee it 's all a matter of putting the sugar in first and stirring well . |
| 3 | It is all a matter of acclimatisation ... and practice . |
| 4 | ‘ All a matter of metabolism , ’ he said airily . |
| 5 | Deciding which achievement was the most remarkable is all a matter of taste . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose she ca n't help it , ’ Alan , Jane 's neighbour , philosophised , ‘ it 's all a matter of how the genes , or the DNA or whatever it is , falls . |
| 7 | It 's all a matter of driver ability and confidence . |
| 8 | So far as the Grand Junction Canal company itself is concerned , it is all a matter of inference and speculation . |
| 9 | Perhaps it 's all a matter of style . |
| 10 | As you can see , it is all a matter of common sense yet hundreds of windsurfers are rescued off the British coastline each year . |
| 11 | It 's all a matter of luck , I suppose . ’ |
| 12 | It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel . |
| 13 | All good advice , but all a matter of ‘ thou shalt not ’ . |
| 14 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |
| 15 | It 's all a matter of experimentation — something a unique setup like this positively encourages , since it sounds like no other bass . |
| 16 | Sound is all a matter of vibration transmitted through the air from some object . |
| 17 | It is all a matter of degree . |
| 18 | It is all a matter of degree . |
| 19 | It was all a matter of trust . |
| 20 | Coaxing is another and sycophancy is another — you put your own interpretation on it but if it gets a good show , then it 's all a matter of semantics . |
| 21 | It 's all a matter of personal preference and comfort . |
| 22 | It seems to be all a matter of priorities , of what is most important to people and how they choose to use their time . |
| 23 | Whatever I said , any public discussion left people ( including , I feared , our own staff ) with a confused idea that it was really all a matter of who slept with whom . |
| 24 | It 's all a matter of design . |
| 25 | Although Hertfordshire distinguished between tutor-librarians ( whose job was primarily educational ) and " college librarians " , whose job was supposed to be entirely administrative , many felt that such distinctions were meaningless or misleading ; it was all a matter of proportion , and nobody ( it was argued ) working in a college library could avoid at some stage taking part in the educational process . |
| 26 | There is no sharp dividing-line between academic or professional courses on the one hand and general ones on the other ; indeed some of the broader courses involving several disciplines which have been mentioned already may well be thought of as general — it is all a matter of degree . |
| 27 | ‘ You see — it 's all a matter of luck . ’ |
| 28 | It was all a matter of common sense : planning ( which was the only possible way forward ) or laissez-faire ( which had failed ) . |
| 29 | It 's all a matter of principle ! ) . |
| 30 | You think it is all a matter of love and loving , of care and caring … |