Example sentences of "largely a matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is largely a matter of cost .
2 Format is largely a matter of preference .
3 If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) .
4 One such difference is largely a matter of emphasis but it seems to me of significance .
5 What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ?
6 All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ .
7 Rapid progress across country is largely a matter of finding and using effectively only the very strongest of thermals .
8 The same kind of criticism is sometimes levelled at newer , vocationally orientated courses in higher education ( such as secretarial studies , catering or nursing ) which are perceived , however inaccurately , as being largely a matter of skill acquisition .
9 But the same thing is meant by both , for a simple reason : the legal conceptualisation of these relationships was largely a matter of clothing fact with right .
10 But it can be difficult to ascertain whether exchange rate pressure is temporary or permanent in nature ; consequently the decision when and to what degree the central monetary authority should intervene is largely a matter of judgement .
11 The ‘ cure ’ is largely a matter of acclimatisation and a simple but thorough explanation of why the aircraft stalls and what causes the sensation .
12 It is largely a matter of economics and much hinges on the current price of energy .
13 Too often the car feels lurchy , with accurate placement largely a matter of guesswork .
14 The Heritage range is the most flexible because cantilever cross frames are used to carry all the first floor loads and most of the roof , leaving internal divisions largely a matter of choice .
15 These are largely a matter of choice .
16 It is all largely a matter of trial and error to find the string that will suit you best .
17 In practice , the best combination of instruments for a particular procedure is largely a matter of trial and error but once a simple technique , such as the two-instrument injection method , has been mastered the principles of making and setting up extra instruments will be self-evident .
18 Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings .
19 Polo is largely a matter of pony power .
20 Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics .
21 But as we have seen , the ordinary shares may shade off imperceptibly into preference , for , when the latter confer a substantial right of participation in income or capital , or a fortiori both , it is largely a matter of taste whether they are designated ‘ preference ’ or ‘ preferred ordinary ’ shares .
22 Which of the two is incorporated is largely a matter of taste .
23 Preferences between wholemeal bread and white bread are largely a matter of habit .
24 Once power is established and set on course , as it were , then obedience is largely a matter of habit .
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