Example sentences of "[det] was a matter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sporting gentlemen of the pre-Victorian period saw no harm in making money through playing games so long as this was a matter of gambling ; nor did they mind mixing with others of a lower class , who derived the bulk of their income in this way , provided distinctions of birth were recognized and preserved . |
| 2 | This was a matter of mini-politics : the Shetland Branch of the NFU opposed an article for imposition , the crofters ' union supported the suggestion . |
| 3 | By now the Boeing company had realised that this was a matter of fundamental importance to one of their primary aircraft types and they sent their top rank engineers and metallurgists to participate , under the supervision of American investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board , in the UK investigation . |
| 4 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 5 | This was a matter of some controversy during the passage of the Bill . |
| 6 | This was a matter of extreme concern — with its many implications , for both jurisdictions of Church and State . |
| 7 | Partly this was a matter of timing : both approaches penetrated the mainstream of macroeconomics at more or less the same time . |
| 8 | The Commission said , however , that it would be up to member states to propose and enforce measures protecting environmentally sensitive areas from shipping , as this was a matter of national , rather than Community , jurisdiction . |
| 9 | One of these was a matter of internal consistency . |
| 10 | But that was a matter of choice ; there were some people I did n't like , and many more that I did n't even know . |
| 11 | He said also that my " values " were not good , distance and middle distance and foreground all rather muddled , but that was a matter of study . |