Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , most of these assertions are merely matters of opinion , often rather wild opinion , for one ca n't help wondering just how much Messrs Ashdown , Smith and Brown really know about the ‘ other European countries ’ they so blithely summoned to their aid . |
| 2 | The main point , however , is not simply that the premisses are largely matters of choice . |
| 3 | Another way in which Highlander operates is illustrated by the example of the Appalachian Land Ownership Study , the bulk of which was undertaken from 1978 to 1980 , though it is very important to stress that events which promoted the survey , and events leading from the survey , are still matters of community activity . |
| 4 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 5 | All the choices he makes are equally matters of language . |
| 6 | For many of its current speakers — some , like Rushdie , immigrants to Britain — it remains a language foreign as well as familiar , and the culture and conventions it sustains are consequently matters for challenge and reformulation . |
| 7 | I am aware that the association has provided a review paper to OFFER on the perceived barriers to the development of CHP , and the issues raised are primarily matters for OFFER . |
| 8 | Tropes are therefore matters of content , and schemes matters of expression . |