Example sentences of "[adv] a matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early use of X-rays and radium for the treatment of cancer was very much a matter of trial and error . |
| 2 | The level required is very much a matter of experience . |
| 3 | ‘ The settlement process is very much a matter of bargaining , and it is bargaining of a difficult and expensive character . |
| 4 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 5 | It was very much a matter of life and death as far as the industry was concerned . |
| 6 | I believe that this is as much a matter of teaching style as of a correct single method ( it is also a matter of the ‘ ear ’ and sensitivity to language of individual pupils ) . |
| 7 | It is , however , very much a matter of judgement how far it is desirable to pursue coverage at all costs . |
| 8 | It is therefore important , when we look at the problem of making the National Curriculum work to the benefit of the children in our schools , to recognise that effective management is as much a matter of attitude as of technique . |
| 9 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 10 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 11 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 12 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 13 | Drucker outlines the variety of innovative activity , arguing that ‘ innovation is work rather than genius ’ and very much a matter of discipline . |
| 14 | Slimming is basically a matter of vanity . |
| 15 | So it is especially a matter for satisfaction that the signatories nevertheless provided a chapter in support of the specified objective . |
| 16 | Yes I mean I acknowledge that that is rightly a matter for investigation establishment through the local plan system . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This pleased his Peripatetic opponents who asserted with Aristotle that sinking or floating was merely a matter of shape . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mr Barzani says the fall of Saddam Hussein is merely a matter of time . |
| 27 | A blow against the Republic from the right was now merely a matter of time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |