Example sentences of "merely [art] matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An education which does justice to feminist priorities is not merely a matter of curriculum innovation and change although when women begin to rewrite the history and culture of societies in ways which include the diversity of women 's experiences , and when women generate their own knowledge and become their own teachers — the consequences can be challenging to men 's view of the world and their view of women . |
| 2 | How easy the task of saving Spitalfields must have then seemed — merely a matter of money ( thought unfortunately its would-be saviours did n't have any ) . |
| 3 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
| 4 | This pleased his Peripatetic opponents who asserted with Aristotle that sinking or floating was merely a matter of shape . |
| 5 | At half speed , guitar tones are mutated into bass frequencies and can become dull and difficult to hear ( the main problem with the Akai U4 ) but when dealing with a digital signal , it is merely a matter of mathematics to ‘ slow ’ a signal down . |
| 6 | This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation . |
| 7 | Yes , something was going on inside her : recently , she was pursued by the idea that her love for Paul was merely a matter of will : merely the will to love him ; merely the will to have a happy marriage . |
| 8 | I have argued above in terms of a discrepancy between Labour 's electoral success in 1964 and more particularly 1966 , and the failure of the party to hold together a decisive social bloc capable of accomplishing radical change in a socialist , or even a Croslandite , direction ( a failure which was not , however , merely a matter of will ) . |
| 9 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 10 | Mr Barzani says the fall of Saddam Hussein is merely a matter of time . |
| 11 | A blow against the Republic from the right was now merely a matter of time . |
| 12 | The Soviet Union saw no need to remain in military terms and appears to have thought it was merely a matter of time before communism was extended to the southern half of the peninsula . |
| 13 | Even 4 September seemed an age ago now , part of a deluded past when she had believed her abduction was a simple crime committed for gain , when she had thought her release was imminent , her restoration to the pampered life she had led merely a matter of time and money . |
| 14 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 15 | It was merely a matter of time and I knew it . |
| 16 | It is n't merely a matter of training and qualifications , it 's a matter of religious commitment as well and most teachers nowadays take the view that to try and teach this subject without that religious commitment is sheer hypocrisy . |
| 17 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 18 | The thoughts ( obsessions ) may be senseless in themselves , or merely a matter of indifference to the subject ; often they are completely silly , and invariably they are the starting-point of a strenuous mental activity , which exhausts the patient and to which he only surrenders himself most unwillingly . |
| 19 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 20 | This is not merely a matter of Northism , Henry argues . |
| 21 | This is not merely a matter of semantics . |