Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 2 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 3 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 4 | Freedom , we now notice , is not always a higher ideal than those with which it competes , nor is rationality necessarily just a matter of self-interest . |
| 5 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 6 | Anorexia is much more a matter of pride . |
| 7 | Nowadays it is much more a matter of choice . |
| 8 | If the courts are understandably reluctant to interfere where ‘ serious disorder ’ is concerned , what constitutes ‘ serious disruption to the life of the community ’ is much more a matter of judgment , and not one in which the police are necessarily more expert than the courts . |
| 9 | It is thus partly a matter of chance which cells end up in either of these two positions . |
| 10 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 11 | IT WAS always simply a matter of time before full back Alan Tait followed his former boss Doug Laughton to Leeds . |
| 12 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 13 | Although strategies to overcome problems with chimaeric YACs and marker-poor regions are still being worked out , it is clearly only a matter of time before a combined version of the two maps will be available to guide efforts to sequence the human genome . |
| 14 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |
| 15 | If considerations of foreign diplomacy , unquestionably influenced by his personal fears of the international power of world Jewry , were paramount , the protection of his prestige and standing among the German public was clearly also a matter of concern to Hitler . |
| 16 | I believe that this is as much a matter of teaching style as of a correct single method ( it is also a matter of the ‘ ear ’ and sensitivity to language of individual pupils ) . |
| 17 | It is therefore important , when we look at the problem of making the National Curriculum work to the benefit of the children in our schools , to recognise that effective management is as much a matter of attitude as of technique . |
| 18 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 19 | It was really only a matter of time before a label as enterprising as Marco Polo got round to unearthing Max von Schillings ( 1868–1933 ) . |
| 20 | A blow against the Republic from the right was now merely a matter of time . |
| 21 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 22 | I refer here , of course , to B. F. Skinner , whose views on language learning as essentially a matter of behaviour being shaped by stimulus control provided theoretical warrant for an approach to language teaching which focused on habit formation . |
| 23 | The problem with these abandoned buildings is rarely simply a matter of finance . |
| 24 | It is surely only a matter of time before a tray falls from his hands on to a lady or gentleman 's lap . |
| 25 | With the merchandising machine grinding into production , 100,000 T-shirts already selling every week , along with video games , mugs and comic books , it 's surely only a matter of time before the simple-minded feline Stimpy and the maniacal chihuahua Ren make their debut on our shores . |
| 26 | IF THE life stories of Billie Holliday , Loretta Lynn and Pasty Cline were interesting enough to inspire major Hollywood movies , it 's surely only a matter of time before the Dinah Washington biopic arrives . |
| 27 | Whilst the issue of alcohol abuse is quite properly a matter for concern , it should be seen in perspective . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's almost entirely a matter for management , ’ says Martin Taylor , deputy chairman of Hanson , the industrial conglomerate and one of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 29 | In both cases the problem of strength and weakness is almost entirely a matter of surface smoothness . |
| 30 | Legitimacy , then , is almost entirely a matter of sentiment . |