Example sentences of "matter so much " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them .
2 It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected .
3 It would n't have mattered so much if the nights had brought the compensations she had been led to expect .
4 This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous .
5 Even if Mahmoud had refused , would it have mattered so much ?
6 And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played .
7 She turned to Ricky , ‘ It matters so much to a man having an heir . ’
8 I pondered also on the question as to why it matters so much to most of us what on earth ( literally ) happens to human remains ?
9 I said , ‘ I suppose we ca n't believe , any longer , that the purely physical thing matters so much . ’
10 You might say that it was n't such a terrible thing , but it 's not the actual abuse that matters so much .
11 well I do n't think it matters so much in with the
12 This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing .
13 ‘ Does my opinion matter so much ?
14 Maybe it did n't matter so much if you were old .
15 Today it did not matter so much that he was different .
16 Why does it matter so much ?
17 Though it does n't matter so much here , it 's important in the USA because they take their music much more seriously .
18 Mistakes did n't matter so much , but now — well , it 's for real , is n't it , and maybe lives depending on me .
19 If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’
20 ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’
21 This might not matter so much in relation to a skill such as " estimating " as for a concept such as " area " or " place value " .
22 Why did the place matter so much ?
23 It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read .
24 And why , all these years later , would it suddenly matter so much ? ’
25 This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow .
26 Why did it matter so much where you were buried ?
27 You get more lonely , which does n't help in here , and I mean say , I mean the view is n't very n this view is very drab , and if you 'd got something to look at it would n't would n't matter so much , but erm
28 Each hand drilled hole had to be carefully positioned in order that it might have greatest effect , but it did not matter so much with machine holes .
29 Using that as a working theory , I 'd say there was some sort of time limit involved — I mean , a time during which it is imperative for people not to know that he 's dead , but a time that comes to an end , after which it does n't matter so much . "
30 Why should principles matter so much ?
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