Example sentences of "[was/were] not [art] matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a matter with which I had been confronted . |
| 2 | Another sporting triumph followed hard upon the conquest of Everest and gave added reassurance to the nation , especially those steeped in the amateur spirit for whom the demolition of English professional football by Puskas and the Hungarians was not a matter for much regret . |
| 3 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 4 | He seems to have thought that the pope ought to have maintained the decrees of his predecessor , but this was not a matter for him to decide . |
| 5 | Therefore , despite the fact that a little over a year had passed since the Report had been received , he suggested that the interval between publication and the debate was not a matter for regret . |
| 6 | However , the basis for that was not a matter for the Divisional Court . |
| 7 | The Government complained about the cost and said that it was not a matter for them or that matters were not that bad . |
| 8 | Twice Round The Daffodils was ostensibly a more serious subject — about life in a TB sanatorium and caused a modicum of controversy among people who thought that tuberculosis was not a matter for ‘ Carry On ’ style laughs . |
| 9 | It was not a matter to which any of them had ever given great thought . |
| 10 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 11 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 12 | This was not a matter of political convenience . |
| 13 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |
| 14 | Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along . |
| 15 | Allen studied the Neolithic revolution and became convinced that it was not a matter of someone having a bright idea and beginning to plant seeds . |
| 16 | Links between nuclear power and the incidence of cancer was not a matter of specific concern in that review . |
| 17 | This was not a matter of individual strength but of territorial ownership . |
| 18 | So his lack of faith was not a matter of failing to straddle an impossible credibility gap , but of baulking at a simple step of trust on the evidence of inescapable reasons . |
| 19 | The amnesia , it seems , was not a matter of political persuasion — politicians on the left and right are now calling for a re-examination of the period — but the reflex of a generation . |
| 20 | ’ For the Hebrew , to know the time was not a matter of knowing the date , it was a matter of knowing what kind of time it might be . |
| 21 | He knew that Wolfgang 's old affection for Aloysia was not quite dead ( even though she was now married ) , and indeed Wolfgang had recently confessed as much — he truly had loved her , and even now she was not a matter of indifference to him . |
| 22 | This was not a matter of excuse , but a statement of fact . |
| 23 | What the WTA originally intended ( it was not a matter of them seeking approval first ) was to break away and form their own tour under a new company called WTA Inc , in 1993 , with 10 $1 million tournaments and another ten offering $500,000 in prize money . |
| 24 | Law , the realists argued , was not a matter of abstract logic but a practical exercise in social engineering . |
| 25 | How she had learned that he had the painting , which was not a matter of public knowledge , is unknown . |
| 26 | Galileo would protest that the earth 's motion was not a matter of faith . |
| 27 | The list was continuous , and so it was not a matter of waiting.until the end before repeating the numbers from memory . |
| 28 | Resistance was not a matter of patriotic feeling but of calculation , of patriotic responsibility . |
| 29 | In support of his argument , Mr. Coghlan relied on Cozens v. Brutus [ 1973 ] A.C. 854 , a case in which it was held in the House of Lords that the meaning of the word ‘ insulting ’ used in section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 was not a matter of law but a matter of fact . |
| 30 | That was not a matter of dispute . |