Example sentences of "[verb] be a [adj] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's maintained her fitness but racing is a different matter . |
| 3 | The shortage of high-grade timbers for aircraft and boat-building would have been a serious matter during the War if all these woods had not been ‘ upgraded ’ by lamination with perfectly satisfactory results . |
| 4 | Jailing Storrie for seven years , Lord Coulsfield said : ‘ The robbery by itself would have been a serious matter but what followed in the shape of the sexual assault was a quite extraordinary and vicious episode . ’ |
| 5 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 6 | We have recent evidence that the Conservative Party at least is willing to forgive , and once it had been accepted there was no question of the betrayal of any secrets , it would have been a simple matter of marital infidelity . |
| 7 | Had Hagi played for Dinamo Bucharest , whose future is now in doubt because of its links with the notorious security police , Securitate , it might have been a different matter . |
| 8 | It would have been a different matter at Oxford Circus , say . |
| 9 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 10 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |
| 11 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 12 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 13 | It had been a simple matter after that to slip down to Mike Quinn , who was an acknowledged authority on all aspects of the disease by virtue of his ownership of one book , and borrow his Encyclopaedia of Human Ailments . |
| 14 | Sunday trading , for example , is something that one would think was a national matter with the subsidiarity rule applying . |