Example sentences of "as a matter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | AI has repeatedly called on the Bahraini Government to ratify and implement international human rights treaties as a matter of urgency . |
| 2 | We are in the Scotland of TB , pneumonia and drink , in which sex is spoken of as a matter of men attacking women . |
| 3 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 4 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 5 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 6 | Last Sunday , as a matter of fact . |
| 7 | However , as a matter of principle and good airmanship , at least one full wing-span of clearance should always be left to allow for inadvertent drifting or swinging during landings . |
| 8 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 9 | Any need to analyse the ways in which the multi-variant police world forms a coherent and self-sustaining whole is material for the social scientist and not the practitioners , for they already live the system as a matter of course . |
| 10 | As a matter of interest . ’ |
| 11 | The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ? |
| 12 | The British Mountaineering Council have written to Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine urging him to consider buying Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms as a matter of ‘ necessity ’ . |
| 13 | We asked North West Water , more as a matter of courtesy than a private arrangement , whether we could place the bolts and I do n't see that our arrangement undermines BMC policy . ’ |
| 14 | C has become the de facto primary HLL now taught as a matter of course to all emerging electronics engineers and their education would be regarded as incomplete without it . |
| 15 | Alternative dividing lines which have been informally mooted , such as simply restricting solicitor-advocates in Crown Court jury trials to the less serious cases , had been viewed as difficult to support as a matter of principle . |
| 16 | As a matter of law , it is arguable that a plaintiff who announces before his case that he will pass on any damages to charity is not entitled to anything except costs if he wins . |
| 17 | On one level the Republic often criticises the northern security forces , but it too relies on the RUC : the Garda co-operate with the northern police force and do not , as a matter of policy , deal with either the Army or the UDR . |
| 18 | This is the question which vice-chancellors have sought to raise — and this is the question to which society must , as a matter of urgency , respond . |
| 19 | Whereas in the past the boards would say that advanced calculators could be used without additional calculating programmes or memory banks , such programmes and data banks are incorporated in the latest generation of machines as a matter of course . |
| 20 | Accordingly , it follows that he should be concerned about the current account deficit as a matter of public policy . |
| 21 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 22 | As understood by Schutz , ‘ recipes ’ are standardized guide-lines for behaviour which are adopted as a matter of course , and vary depending upon the type of situation . |
| 23 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 24 | More immediately , it meant that , as a matter of self-respect , nearly all the remaining territories of the former empire , as they successively became independent , were bound to become independent as republics . |
| 25 | Jevons also stated that ‘ ceremonies may continue to be performed as a matter of custom and tradition long after their original purpose and object have been forgotten ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , Bea , I feel like a shit as a matter of fact , but I ca n't live like this - . |
| 27 | Monogamy also leads to marriages being part of property deals among the ruling classes since marriage becomes part of the process of securing heirs to private property , and once marriage is seen as a matter of passing on property , it rapidly takes on that form exclusively among the propertied classes . |
| 28 | He 's doing twelve years , as a matter of fact . ’ |
| 29 | As a matter of fact , Mr Hatton paid five hundred pounds into his current account on May 22nd . |
| 30 | It was , Erika agreed , much nicer than the Palast , as a matter of fact . |