Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been a matter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of observers ' values and predispositions on their perceptions , descriptions , and analyses of ethnographic reality is , of course , an issue that has long been a matter of explicit concern to anthropologists . |
| 2 | The issue of professional regulation in medicine has long been a matter of both public and academic interest . |
| 3 | From Lesley Wittle to Zeebrugge , it has always been a matter of hours before the first risqué punchline filters in . |
| 4 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 5 | With regard to the contingency contingency is something which has often been a matter of debate within this council . |
| 6 | Hugh Morris 's future has inevitably been a matter of some debate . |
| 7 | Hitherto it had largely been a matter of intellectual interest and the best-known example was the study of the The Peasant Question ( 1937 — 1938 ) by two of the Party 's foremost members , Truong Chinh and Vo Nguyen Giap . |
| 8 | What Amanda was wearing underneath had once been a matter of passionate interest to Don . |
| 9 | I have seen Colonel Steiner 's medical record and note that it 's only been a matter of weeks since he was gravely wounded . |
| 10 | It 's just been a matter of time . |
| 11 | Of course Wyvis Hall is mine , it 's always been a matter of fact it would be mine . |
| 12 | But then , faith and goodness have never been a matter of intellect . |