Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] [adv] [art] matter " in BNC.
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1 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
2 | The overwhelming body of evidence for Britain and the United States is that such ties are maintained after marriage and that this is not simply a matter of recognizing connections at Christmas and birthdays plus occasional visits or telephone conversations . |
3 | This is not simply a matter of learning through one 's own mistakes . |
4 | This is not simply a matter of economic growth , although that has become increasingly important and perhaps dominant , but of a more general development of a distinctive culture and way of life which would allow the society to take its ‘ rightful ’ place as an autonomous , self-determining unit among the other nations of the world . |
5 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
6 | It confirms the clinical dictum that patients with ulcerative colitis often present with a greater degree of blood loss than patients with Crohn 's disease , and that this is not simply a matter of being concealed ( or occult ) in Crohn 's disease . |
7 | This is not simply a matter of maxims being " intentionally " flouted , as modelled in Grice 's work . |
8 | ‘ This is not simply a matter which can be looked at and comfortably quantified as a constant problem . |
9 | This is not just a matter of terminology . |
10 | This is not just a matter of people telling lies . |
11 | This is not just a matter of children 's physical dependence ; it concerns the emotional constitution of human beings generally . |
12 | This is not just a matter of looking at the distribution of power and influence in relation to official decision-making bodies , or even of power over the minds and feelings of the people themselves , although in both cases that distribution is manifestly and grotesquely uneven . |
13 | This is not just a matter of what is traditionally thought of as ‘ social policy ’ . |
14 | But this is not just a matter of cultural manipulation — rulers laying on circuses when there is no bread . |
15 | This is not just a matter of words : one does not become a member of a disciplinary community simply by having access to the latest dictionary or even the fullest encyclopaedia on the subject . |
16 | This is not just a matter of showing that you are not stealing or plagiarising other people 's work . |
17 | This is not just a matter of irritating supporters of the confessional approach . |
18 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
19 | This is not only a matter of common courtesy but will help create/ maintain your image as a good employer . |
20 | This is not merely a matter of tiresome tolerance according to some airy-fairy principle of political philosophy . |
21 | This is not merely a matter of re-stating what had already been said ; it involves a genuine progress and advance towards a fuller and clearer understanding enabled by the onward movement of history . |
22 | This is not merely a matter of Northism , Henry argues . |
23 | This is not merely a matter of semantics . |
24 | This is not necessarily a matter of money . |
25 | Professor Parker shows that this is not always a matter of dispassionate assessment but may turn on whether the research is seen to be delivering ‘ good ’ news or ‘ bad ’ news . |
26 | Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences . |
27 | This is more profoundly a matter of the deeper cultural instilling of conformist values than of the effective threat of post hoc sanctions by the criminal justice system . |
28 | 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 ) . |
29 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
30 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |