Example sentences of "more a matter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There , it is more a matter of organisation .
2 ‘ There is no great problem , it is more a matter of principle , ’ said Louis .
3 It is , however , more a matter of style than substance .
4 Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances .
5 Nowadays it is much more a matter of choice .
6 Anorexia is much more a matter of pride .
7 Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief .
8 This distinctive corporate culture flourishes in an environment in which independence is more a matter of convention than anything else .
9 It 's more a matter of conditioning .
10 Behavioural rights are more a matter of belief than legislation since they tend to be based on conclusions which you have reached about yourself in relation to others .
11 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 .
12 If the courts are understandably reluctant to interfere where ‘ serious disorder ’ is concerned , what constitutes ‘ serious disruption to the life of the community ’ is much more a matter of judgment , and not one in which the police are necessarily more expert than the courts .
13 If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception .
14 In other respects , however , the style of the Reeve 's Tale is very similar to that of the Miller 's Tale , supporting the view that the tone of the two tales is more a matter of continuity than of contrast .
15 But generally speaking , the availability of landfill space is more a matter of politics than geology .
16 Selling to the variety multiples is more a matter of negotiation at higher levels whereby the buyer and the sales manager negotiate price and delivery and the salespeople merely provide an after-sales service at individual outlets .
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