Example sentences of "in matters [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 2 | This has always added to the clergy 's spiritual authority and status , and has tended to merge with the authority claimed by the clergy in matters of faith and morals , with the high clergy deciding what constitutes matters of faith and morals . |
| 3 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Just follow your little heart , ’ she commented ; as she ever did in matters of important self-expression . ) |
| 5 | The similarities , however , are mostly in matters of device ( the piano arpeggios in the first movement Coda , for example , and the six-eight ending of the Rondo , tragic in Mozart , brilliant in Beethoven ) . |
| 6 | For lack of sympathetic agents , the peasants were often left to their own devices in matters of general and even political culture . |
| 7 | It is a sound maxim that you do not ask the barber whether you need a haircut , and if Prof Paulos is not a wholly disinterested party in matters of numeracy , you will certainly not expect Arno Penzias , a distinguished physicist and vice-president for research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of AT&T , to be less than sanguine about the remorseless advance of information technology . |
| 8 | I think his mother was a very low-key housewife who depended very heavily on her husband to do everything — to write the bills and all that — a very dependent housewife , and David automatically assumed the role of his father in matters of domestic finance . |
| 9 | States escaped relatively unscathed last year ; not so cities and counties , which are less constrained by the law in matters of budgetary irresponsibility . |
| 10 | For the making of contracts by a corporation the Common Law required a document under the corporation 's common seal , except in matters of trifling importance or daily necessary occurrence . |
| 11 | For it was proper that in matters of sacrifice the ruler should fare better than the commoner and the nation than the ruler , since the whole should always be superior to the part … |
| 12 | Anyway , unclean and in a state of domestic seclusion , they thus became increasingly less involved in matters of public religion , and the situation quickly developed wherein their non-participation was viewed in terms of actual exclusion rather than mere exemption . |
| 13 | When Western governments fail in matters of policy ( to bring down inflation , or to reduce unemployment ) they can blame technical factors beyond their control , or claim that no one really understands how to manage an economy . |
| 14 | To the Protestants , according to Knox , she complained about opposition to her policy from the Catholics and Châtelherault ; only if the crown matrimonial was granted would she have sufficient authority , and ‘ then devise ye what ye please in matters of religion and they shall be granted ’ . |
| 15 | Supporters , however , were keen on its value and C. Silvester Horne wrote that its creation showed that no one could now argue that Nonconformist ‘ unity can not be permanently reared because of an inadequate basis of agreement in matters of faith ’ . |
| 16 | Being only eighteen years of age and relatively unversed in matters of state , Queen Victoria was much influenced by the Prime Minister , Viscount Melbourne , who held that office from 1835 to 1851 . |
| 17 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 18 | It shows nonetheless that in matters of scandal , women had everything to lose , and men almost nothing . |
| 19 | Should it be , ‘ Has it authority in all matters ? ’ , or should one ask a separate question regarding its authority in matters of taxation , or perhaps one should inquire separately concerning its authority in matters of corporate taxation and personal taxation ? |
| 20 | Should it be , ‘ Has it authority in all matters ? ’ , or should one ask a separate question regarding its authority in matters of taxation , or perhaps one should inquire separately concerning its authority in matters of corporate taxation and personal taxation ? |
| 21 | An expert pharmacologist may not be subject to the authority of the government in matters of the safety of drugs , an inhabitant of a little village by a river may not be subject to its authority in matters of navigation and conservation of the river by the banks of which he has spent all his life . |
| 22 | An expert pharmacologist may not be subject to the authority of the government in matters of the safety of drugs , an inhabitant of a little village by a river may not be subject to its authority in matters of navigation and conservation of the river by the banks of which he has spent all his life . |
| 23 | Between 1980 and 1985 I was a librarian in Brent 's Bibliographic Department , and thus reasonably close to the centre of things in matters of stock . |
| 24 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal thought that in most circumstances it would be reasonable to imply a term along the lines that an employer will not treat his employees ‘ arbitrarily , capriciously or inequitably ’ in matters of remuneration . |
| 25 | In brief , the first covers equal opportunities in matters of recruitment to CAB staff which has been discussed in Chapter 2 ; the second covers racism awareness training , which will be discussed in Chapter 6 ; and the third is a call to bureaux to reflect ethnic minority community needs . |
| 26 | Members of the community were to be permitted their own opinions in matters of politics and religion , but property would be held in common . |
| 27 | The publishing director of Burke 's Peerage is apparently concerned that the Prince ( and even more so the Princess ) of Wales are letting the side down in matters of etiquette . |
| 28 | Adolescence was seen as ‘ critical ’ because it was during this stage of life ‘ when stimulating instruction , technical training and well-directed guidance in matters of conduct and personal hygiene are often most needed and , if wisely given , most helpful towards healthy living and self-control ’ . |
| 29 | However in matters of detail there are some discrepancies between the two maps . |
| 30 | However in matters of art and the aesthetics of nature his opinions bowed to none . |