Example sentences of "[adv] [art] matter [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was put on the plinth was very much a matter for the taste of the occupier of the house for the time being … |
| 2 | But although Lobkowicz ( 1967 ) cautions us against assuming that Aristotle 's distinction between theory and practice is similar to today 's usage , and suggests that it was as much a matter of the context as the content of knowledge — types of life as well as types of thought — the dichotomy is still very much with us . |
| 3 | Social responsibility is thus not merely a matter of the adoption of changed standards on a voluntary basis . |
| 4 | The exact number to be allowed was entirely a matter for the constable who ‘ must be left to take such steps as on the evidence before him he thinks are proper ’ . |
| 5 | It must remain entirely a matter for the discretion of the prosecuting authorities as to whether they are in a position to and are prepared to give an assurance . |
| 6 | It is entirely a matter for the society whether it selects one of its own employees or instructs an independent firm . |
| 7 | As to the other matters , in my view the Secretary of State 's decision not to alter the review date having considered the petition was one which was entirely a matter for the exercise of his discretion . |
| 8 | It seems to be saying this is entirely a matter for the profession . |
| 9 | Now there was just the matter of the snake . |
| 10 | Somehow the matter in the Universe seems to determine the existence of an inertial frame in which Newton 's laws of motion are valid . |
| 11 | Social roles , therefore , are not just a matter of the way people can be observed to behave ( in the usual run of things ) but concern the way it is thought that people ought to behave . |
| 12 | Reverse transition involves its own characteristic mechanisms ; it is not just a matter of the turbulence energy production being insufficient to sustain the turbulence against increased viscous dissipation or some other process ( e.g. buoyancy in a stratified flow ) . |
| 13 | Investing for profit is not just a matter of the hardware you buy and how productively you use it . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , sex is n't just a matter of the body and recent emphasis on the successes of Masters and Johnson type techniques , 8 may result in incautious application of their techniques by the unknowledgeable . |
| 15 | There is no difference between colleges and institutes , but that between the polytechnics and the colleges/institutes is largely a matter of the scale and level of provision — polytechnics tend to be larger , and provide more high level courses , including some postgraduate ones . |
| 16 | The homogeneity or variety of the system is thus largely a matter of the level of magnification . |
| 17 | Fraud was a legal concept , but dishonesty is largely a matter for the jury . |
| 18 | The initial allocation of franchises in 1954 , then , was absolutely not a matter of the ITA folding its arms and waiting for consortia to spring fully formed before it . |
| 19 | And the form that I return to is the form of human being , erm , that 's the form that I have and whatever individuates Socrates from Plato erm is not a matter of the form because they have exactly the same form . |
| 20 | Clearly , this is not a matter for the Home Secretary . |
| 21 | This is not a matter for the Government . ’ |
| 22 | Thus , if an objective is to provide 250 new council houses , this is not a matter for the housing department alone . |
| 23 | What I said to UKIAS — I have had two meetings with the organisation and written to it — is that the availability of green form aid is finally a matter for the Government and Parliament , not for UKIAS . |
| 24 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 25 | More a matter of the amount of time required … excessive … good coaching does not come cheap … ’ |
| 26 | This is more a matter for the Secretary of State than for the courts . |
| 27 | Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet . |
| 28 | In ‘ good girl ’ , for example , it is not a simple matter of the first word ending either in or in , but rather a matter of the extent to which alveolar and/or velar closures are achieved . |
| 29 | The letter 's bound to add to press , er add to press for a settlement with a number of Tory M P's expected to bring up the matter at the Party 's Conference at Bournemouth . |
| 30 | He added that Virgin was taking up the matter of the fairness of take-off and landing slots at UK airports with the European Commission . |