Example sentences of "[adv] a matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was merely a matter of time and I knew it . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | This is not merely a matter of Northism , Henry argues . |
| 37 | This is not merely a matter of semantics . |
| 38 | It is perhaps a matter of definition whether such families are counted as extended families or not ’ . |
| 39 | The closeness of these links is obviously a matter of degree , since there will always be some connection between the various aspects of a theory ; but a concern with the general problem of holism will inevitably constrain us to see a theory in a particular perspective , and to focus sharply on certain characteristics at the expense of others . |
| 40 | What constitutes ‘ serious damage to property ’ is obviously a matter of degree , but it probably means something rather more serious than a few broken windows . |
| 41 | The distress suffered by individuals and their families was obviously a matter of concern for everybody , whether or not they were directly affected . |
| 42 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 43 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 44 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 45 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 46 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 47 | Nor is it only a matter of government consulting people about what it proposes to do . |
| 48 | Perhaps however it is only a matter of degree . |
| 49 | It was only a matter of degree . |
| 50 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |
| 51 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 52 | The abnormality of these grants in the context of the protectorate is not , however , only a matter of scale . |
| 53 | The abnormality of these grants in the context of the protectorate is not , however , only a matter of scale . |
| 54 | Suffering happens , is not chosen , is a ‘ misfortune ’ ; shall we say that , since by nature attention quickens only as a function of the organism striving towards its goals , the optimum of internal and external stimulation to awareness can be only a matter of chance ? |
| 55 | However , it was only a matter of timing . |
| 56 | Well , it 's only a matter of parking at , parking your own car as well |
| 57 | It was only a matter of will . |
| 58 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 59 | The distribution of work between the divisions of that court is only a matter of convenience ; the Queen 's Bench Division can never say ‘ here a matter of Equity is involved ; we can not decide it ’ , or the Chancery Division ‘ this is a question of Common Law ; you ought to have gone to a Common Law Court ’ . |
| 60 | This was only a matter of convenience , however , to keep the discussion as simple as possible . |