Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [art] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties . |
| 2 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 3 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 4 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 5 | Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health . |
| 6 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 7 | Your return was only a matter of time . ’ |
| 8 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 9 | Their relative importance was partly a matter of administrative procedures , but perhaps even more of the personality and political connections of their respective holders . |
| 10 | A counter-attack was only a matter of time . |
| 11 | ‘ He added : ‘ The conduct of a Government Minister which in no way affected the crisis was equally a matter of fact and public interest , ’ . |
| 12 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 13 | His sole initiative was essentially a matter of housekeeping . |
| 14 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 15 | The injection of considerable sums of federal money into many American schools in the 1960s , together with the programmes and methodologies that resulted , arose from and sometimes led to the conclusion that change in education was primarily a matter of provision . |
| 16 | Whether shifts changed in place or at the surface was thus a matter of some importance . |
| 17 | ‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting . |
| 18 | The acquisition of a visa was clearly a matter of guile . |
| 19 | That Spartan deference to allied feeling was indeed a matter of necessity not sentiment is shown by her peace proposals to Athens in 425 : in Thucydides ' account ( iv.20 ) the Spartans say that if Athens and Sparta do a deal the rest of Greece will do them honour . |
| 20 | It appears that under the Act of 1980 the content of that policy was entirely a matter for the governors , subject of course to the requirements of section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 21 | Like many people , he believed controlling the spasticity was simply a matter of trying harder . |
| 22 | Despite the establishment of a quango for the universities , the extent of their " national " role was still a matter of controversy , and for this reason discourses on the national education could not , without some difficulty , be made to coexist with those on the university curriculum . |
| 23 | It is one of the greatest examples of the age of a woman who had stern awareness that high birth was indeed a matter of high responsibility . |
| 24 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 25 | The subject was currently a matter of appeal . |
| 26 | The success of the Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement also sent a clear signal to equivocating party political leaders that a unified front to combat the growing threat of fascism was now a matter of urgency . |
| 27 | It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time . |
| 28 | The ending of what amounted to class segregation was less a matter of the democratic spirit of professionals finally asserting itself than of the decline of the amateur . |
| 29 | Since provision of education for the lower orders was largely dependent on local initiative and attendance was usually a matter of parental inclination , both were haphazard . |
| 30 | If age discrimination was entirely a matter of individual attitudes it could be more easily tackled . |