Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am now very much afraid that it may not matter what he said on 10 March . |
| 2 | Perhaps this last doubt is irrelevant ; it may not matter whether A's object was entirely altruistic or partially self-interested . |
| 3 | It may not matter very much what claims the Association makes for itself but one would hope that co-operation and not confrontation is to be its approach , and the making of false claims can only antagonise the Law . |
| 4 | be it nineteen eighty five or nineteen eighty six , it may not matter , did you know previous to that in February nineteen eighty seven , he as chairman had given instructions that this brochure should be withdrawn , did you know that ? |
| 5 | It may not matter much to you — ’ |
| 6 | u It should n't matter what you wear to work as long as you get the job done , says Lisa , 49 . |
| 7 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 8 | ‘ If the father is in regular contact then it should n't matter . ’ |
| 9 | If you do not have time to prepare breakfast it should not matter . |
| 10 | An interesting feature of the general theory of relativity is that it should not matter whether time is running backward or forward : it is time-symmetric . |
| 11 | In the analysis outlined above , it should not matter whether a central government cuts taxes or gives lump-sum grants to local authorities . |
| 12 | From one point of view it might not matter , for the paragraphs are in part devised to give the reader information . |
| 13 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 14 | From the ancient hierarchical point of view ( unchanged from Aristotle to Kant and beyond ) it could not matter because women themselves did not really matter . |
| 15 | In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will . |
| 16 | It could n't matter less what the AMDEA happens to think about global warming ; the reality is that changes in the European Community will force all European manufacturers to meet higher standards . |
| 17 | By the fusion of joints , certainly , it need hardly matter to him which ones . |
| 18 | ‘ After all , it ca n't matter if someone who knows us sees us together at this late stage , Luke . |
| 19 | There is a range of possible meanings that might be attached to these rather ambiguous words ; but , if no mortal man could be the doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold , it would scarcely matter from whom the bishop received the emblems of his office : the reality could come only from Christ . |
| 20 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 21 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 22 | They said it would n't matter if he were gay . |
| 23 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
| 24 | They could send their snoopers round and it would n't matter . |
| 25 | It would n't matter now what she , Dinah , did ; Robert Asshe would be hoping for an heir from the new wife , the young girl who could n't act . |
| 26 | alright if it does n't rain actually so it would n't matter if they did n't have treads on er treads on the tyres if it 's dry it does n't really matter you just go round slicks and |
| 27 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 28 | Patiently , he repeated , as though perhaps she had not heard : ‘ I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 29 | If I were completely , it would n't matter . " |
| 30 | To Branson , arguments had never been a symptom of animosity ; rather , he and Powell had always argued ‘ like a married couple , knowing you could shout at each other and it would n't matter ’ . |