Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 2 | That conclusion in a way seems rather obvious and a matter of common sense . |
| 3 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 4 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |
| 5 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 6 | For Origen that was no more than a matter of tactics in controversy , not one of principle . |
| 7 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 8 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 9 | A decision to purchase new curtains is more than a matter of taste ; it is also a financial decision . |
| 10 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 11 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 12 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 13 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 14 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 15 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 16 | How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins . |
| 17 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 18 | Shrewsbury will never be Welsh again for more than a matter of days , and Llewelyn has the wit to recognise it . |
| 19 | What is important , however , is that the bias should be conscious and deliberate and a matter of corporate policy . |
| 20 | The burden of proof lies on the defendant , who may be convicted even though he or she honestly believed , on reasonable grounds , that what was published was true and a matter of public interest . |