Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] a matter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
| 2 | This is partly a matter of technology — more paper mills need to be built with the capacity to take old paper instead of new pulp . |
| 3 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
| 4 | This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci . |
| 5 | This is partly a matter of writing appropriate sentences , for example , so that you can distinguish your point of view in debate from someone else 's . |
| 6 | This is not a matter of poor teaching , for such students can be the despair of conscientious teachers . |
| 7 | If I am right then this is not a matter of meaning , but of normative justification . |
| 8 | This is not a matter of party politics or personalities or policies or even principles . |
| 9 | I may talk of experiencing a sly , unpleasant look as a leer , but this is not a matter of some sensation accompanying my seeing the look . |
| 10 | This is not a matter of adding information to an assumed ‘ real world ’ on which any communication is based , but of recognising that there is no unequivocal , neutral description of a situation : once verbalised , communication involves many possible worlds . |
| 11 | This is not a matter of merely local concern , like the incompetence of the postal services . |
| 12 | This is not a matter of accident , or simple confusion , or even of deliberate attempts to use or misuse the word for particular political purposes — although all of these factors may , and in fact do , come into it . |
| 13 | This is not a matter of a reversion to the consideration of the city as a distinctive cultural form , an idea which is most generally associated with the work of Simmel but which was also essential to classic Chicago school urban ecology . |
| 14 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |
| 15 | It need hardly be said , of course , that this is not a matter of absolutes : there were certainly fifteenth-century scholars ambitious for worldly power and possessions , as there were seventeenth-century scholars who aspired to excellence in . |
| 16 | This is not a matter of communication skills alone despite the emphasis which is placed on the open dialogue between schools and parents and on the need for active publicity . |
| 17 | This is largely a matter of forming the habit of noting the wind from smoke or some other indication and of orientating yourself relative to the sun or an obvious feature such as a coast line , i.e. remember something along the lines of ‘ Into wind is into sun ’ , or say to yourself , ‘ I must land with the sun over my left shoulder ’ , etc . |
| 18 | This is largely a matter of common sense . |
| 19 | This is largely a matter of narrative voice , but it is also a question of accounting for subjectivity . |
| 20 | This is primarily a matter of the anti-planning ideological commitment of the present central administration , reflected interalia in the out of hand rejection of the Northern Regional Strategy which was an assumption of the Tyne and Wear exercise . |
| 21 | This is simply a matter of reading the material through from start to finish — as if it were a book — and completing all the exercises on the way . |
| 22 | Admittedly , anomie theory accentuates the constraints rather more than would perhaps be acceptable to indeterminists , but this is simply a matter of emphasis rather than qualitative difference from a ‘ realistic ’ indeterminist position . |
| 23 | More money could , of course , be spent , but if we think that this is simply a matter of money — |
| 24 | The third of the examples above suggests that the poem is being subtle ( whereas in fact it is the author — though again , this is arguably a matter of unknowable intention ) ; use of such personification involves a minor lapse in logic which you should be aware of , even if you decide that the final effect is worth it . |
| 25 | This is entirely a matter of their personal skill and judgment . |
| 26 | This is really a matter of personal preference and the sort of facilities available in your building ( or area because , of course , nearby gas can be piped in at some cost , or use gas from cylinders if you really prefer gas ) . |
| 27 | But this knowledge will not alone enable us to understand language in use for this is always a matter of realizing the particular token meanings of signs in association with the context of utterance . |
| 28 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 29 | To make the presses look even more attractive , I have laminated a flower design on to them , but this is purely a matter of choice and taste . |
| 30 | However , this is purely a matter of experimentation and discovering what best suits your method of working . |