Example sentences of "not a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are entitled to some help , it is not a matter into which pride should enter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's not a matter of theorising — hard work never is . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dropping reference is not a matter of tentative acceptance of an unlikely position , but of doctrinal insistence . |
| 7 | This is not a matter of poor teaching , for such students can be the despair of conscientious teachers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is NOT a matter of having a ‘ split personality ’ . |
| 11 | This was not a matter of political convenience . |
| 12 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If I am right then this is not a matter of meaning , but of normative justification . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Conflict — as the Grants slowly realized — is not a matter of words alone ; actions too can serve as a trigger for a negative response . |
| 26 | In the case of the NHS , it is not a matter of disbelief : it is more a matter of different interpretations of the faith . |
| 27 | In this case it is not a matter of constructing a trust ex nihilo , since one is already involved . |
| 28 | The answer to this is ‘ yes and no , : it is a matter of intention , but it is not a matter of a special law of trusts . |
| 29 | Allen studied the Neolithic revolution and became convinced that it was not a matter of someone having a bright idea and beginning to plant seeds . |
| 30 | Links between nuclear power and the incidence of cancer was not a matter of specific concern in that review . |