Example sentences of "have be a [adj] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortage of high-grade timbers for aircraft and boat-building would have been a serious matter during the War if all these woods had not been ‘ upgraded ’ by lamination with perfectly satisfactory results . |
| 2 | Jailing Storrie for seven years , Lord Coulsfield said : ‘ The robbery by itself would have been a serious matter but what followed in the shape of the sexual assault was a quite extraordinary and vicious episode . ’ |
| 3 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 4 | We have recent evidence that the Conservative Party at least is willing to forgive , and once it had been accepted there was no question of the betrayal of any secrets , it would have been a simple matter of marital infidelity . |
| 5 | Had Hagi played for Dinamo Bucharest , whose future is now in doubt because of its links with the notorious security police , Securitate , it might have been a different matter . |
| 6 | It would have been a different matter at Oxford Circus , say . |
| 7 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 8 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |
| 9 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |