Example sentences of "[subord] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An uneasy feeling that we should wait to be asked back before we repeat an invitation , coupled with the rarity with which we have the energy to entertain , can reduce social intercourse to an annual gesture rather than a matter of maturing friendships . |
| 2 | For Origen that was no more than a matter of tactics in controversy , not one of principle . |
| 3 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 4 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 5 | A decision to purchase new curtains is more than a matter of taste ; it is also a financial decision . |
| 6 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 7 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 8 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 9 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 10 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 11 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 12 | Here the notion of femininity is a more social one , rather than a matter of personality characteristics ; it entails social actions of particular varieties which are not simply dependent upon the person being gentle rather than aggressive . |
| 13 | It was more than a matter of dress and style . |
| 14 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 15 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 16 | These examples lend weight to Masterman 's assertion that ‘ news presentation is an ideological construction , rather than a matter of unproblematic reporting ’ ( Masterman , 1985:106 ) . |
| 17 | This is disproportionate , both in terms of the total Scottish population , and of the Scottish student population , so there are indications that a study of Scottish geology is important to developments within the science as a whole , rather than a matter of purely local interest . |
| 18 | Another such verb is leave ; hence example ( 3 ) ( b ) from Chapter 4 , repeated here : ( 40 ) this process leaves the items date-stamped is in fact structurally ambiguous in three ways rather than two , since the final adjective may be a postnominal attributive , a predicate qualifier , or an adverbal ; it remains true , however , that the ambiguity is one of structure rather than a matter of elusive " shades of lexical meaning " . |
| 19 | How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins . |
| 20 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 21 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 22 | Transparency itself is left as a relatively flexible concept : more of a commercial decision for the exchange than a matter of regulatory principle . |
| 23 | Shrewsbury will never be Welsh again for more than a matter of days , and Llewelyn has the wit to recognise it . |
| 24 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 25 | UNITA was said to have continued to shell the eastern town of Luena , and to have launched attacks in other places , until a matter of hours before the ceasefire came into effect . |
| 26 | This might appear contrary to the idea of keeping systems thinking and real-world aspects separate , but it can provide a compromise that ensures that progress can be made ; however , such compromises should be recognised as such and not made as a matter of course . |
| 27 | Serious Koi-keepers should have such a system installed as a matter of course , for if a fish falls sick in winter it will need to be gradually warmed up until its immune system again begins to function , and until the water temperature is high enough for medication to be effective . |
| 28 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 29 | I do n't go along with that , and not just as a matter of personal pride . |
| 30 | For such activity can , as a matter of logic , only occur in a real country with a real postal system allowing epistolary communication between businesses , friends , relatives , parent and child , husband and wife , MP and constituent , etc , etc . |