Example sentences of "[det] is not [adv] a 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 . |