Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] a matter of " in BNC.
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1 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
2 | This was mostly a matter of scale ; Pete 's feeling was that you could n't own such a place , you could only be owned by it . |
3 | Again , this was partly a matter of generation . |
4 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
5 | If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception . |
6 | This was only a matter of convenience , however , to keep the discussion as simple as possible . |
7 | In other words , the repatriations of the Yugoslavs should continue ; the methods being used to carry them out were found to be " satisfactory " as an alternative to the " use of force " , and this was now a matter of full agreement between Eighth Army and AFHQ . |
8 | He thought this was mainly a matter of size , but the preference holds in other places ( e.g. The Bristol Channel ) where the two barnacles are more evenly matched in this respect . |
9 | Locked together now , welded , this was purely a matter of power and its absence , history 's eternal lesson of the powerful absorbing the powerless , as first her lack of resistance and then her wild response empowered Luke — to take , to give , to plunder or to reward at his pleasure . |