Example sentences of "not [art] matter [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As Churchland ( 1988 , p. 37 ) has put it , ‘ what is important for mentality is not the matter of which the creature is made , but the structure of the internal activities which that matter contains ’ . |
2 | ‘ But that is not the matter at issue . ’ |
3 | That is not the matter before us . |
4 | You are entitled to some help , it is not a matter into which pride should enter . |
5 | Max Friedlander , an outstanding scholar of Northern European art , took the view that accepting a work into an artist 's oeuvre was like recognising a friend , not a matter of measurement or detailed scrutiny . |
6 | It 's not a matter of theorising — hard work never is . |
7 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
8 | Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts . |
9 | Dropping reference is not a matter of tentative acceptance of an unlikely position , but of doctrinal insistence . |
10 | This is not a matter of poor teaching , for such students can be the despair of conscientious teachers . |
11 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
12 | Even now for a Pakistani , Indian or Bangladeshi woman waiting to join her husband in Britain it is not a matter of getting a ticket and boarding a plane . |
13 | It is NOT a matter of having a ‘ split personality ’ . |
14 | This was not a matter of political convenience . |
15 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |
16 | Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along . |
17 | There is nothing unique about this ; men are compelled by law to do it in almost every English village , and it is not a matter of one ghost or two , but a whole rout of them — quiet chaps in cowls , roaring boys in ruffs , ladies in farthingales . |
18 | ‘ The difference between the PWR proposed for Hinkley C and the RBMK reactor at Chernobyl is not a matter of degree or fine detail , ’ the Board 's engineering expert Brian George asserted to the Inquiry Inspector . |
19 | All the people that he painted that Ehrenburg knew resembled their portraits : ‘ What is extraordinary is that Modigliani 's portraits resemble each other ; it is not a matter of an assumed style or some superficial trick of painting , but of the artist 's view of the world … |
20 | It is not a matter of showing that he is entitled to have authority , but that he has it , that he is in authority , with all the consequences which follow from this fact . |
21 | If I am right then this is not a matter of meaning , but of normative justification . |
22 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
23 | This time it is not a matter of rate-capping and ‘ the cuts ’ , though they no doubt played a part , but of decisions to recast teacher training . |
24 | That is , it is not a matter of switching them off , but of whether they should be switched on either initially or again after suitable tests have been carried out . |
25 | Second , the patient 's right to self-determination , in other words , becomes not a matter of legal principle , but rather a consequence of the degree of paternalism exercised by the doctor , supported by societal attitudes which reinforce such paternalism . |
26 | Despite all the detailed criteria set out for assessment , despite the emphasis on course-work , in the end ‘ high ’ GCSE will be familiar enough , and the transition to A level not a matter of genuine difficulty . |
27 | In some emergencies , as when a young child tends ( despite previous explanations and warnings ) to rush out into the street , the point made above is not a matter of primary concern . |
28 | Conflict — as the Grants slowly realized — is not a matter of words alone ; actions too can serve as a trigger for a negative response . |
29 | In the case of the NHS , it is not a matter of disbelief : it is more a matter of different interpretations of the faith . |
30 | In this case it is not a matter of constructing a trust ex nihilo , since one is already involved . |