Example sentences of "matter of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a matter of individual rather than mass persuasion , and it worked . |
| 2 | This was indeed a triumph ; like most of those who make predictions , Owen got some animals wrong later ( identifying as mammals what turned out to be reptilian remains ) , but connoisseurship is a matter of probabilities rather than certainties . |
| 3 | Oakeshott argues that legal validity is a matter of authenticity rather than justice , whether justice is viewed in terms of intrinsic rationality , utility , or conformity to some fundamental law . |
| 4 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 5 | As we were leaving , a matter of half-a-mile away or so , there was one big boom and the sky lit up red . |
| 6 | The growing independence of their children , at each successive stage , can be a matter of concern rather than joy for those who over-commit and over-identify their lives with the nurturing of dependent children . |
| 7 | What is interesting , however , is the importance of clast size in the breakage of bone , and clearly in a cave environment , where limestone clasts are abundant , angular and often very large , small mammal bones are likely to fragment very quickly indeed , in a matter of minutes rather than hours . |
| 8 | Here , second use came quickly , a matter of hours rather than days or months . |
| 9 | I 'm not bragging , but by the time I really started to look for Carol Flaxman I knew it would be a matter of hours rather than days . |
| 10 | But warmth tends to come as a matter of course simply because the base layer eliminates the clamminess which makes you feel cold . |
| 11 | So it 's , the , the Council does n't install central heating as a matter of course only if it 's a special case ? |
| 12 | All these marriages took place during the Great War and it is a matter of generation more than anything else if the groom was a serviceman . |
| 13 | They were only a matter of metres away but , due to the insulation which separated every portion of dock superstructure — a provision designed as a safeguard against just the kind of occurrence which had threatened Rostov — both had been safe from danger . |
| 14 | The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice . |
| 15 | Admittedly , anomie theory accentuates the constraints rather more than would perhaps be acceptable to indeterminists , but this is simply a matter of emphasis rather than qualitative difference from a ‘ realistic ’ indeterminist position . |
| 16 | And at this level of stressful incompetence , escape into averageness seems a matter of chance rather than will . |
| 17 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
| 18 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 19 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
| 20 | Perhaps all judges do accept the authority of the Constitution as a matter of convention rather than as the upshot of sound political theory . |
| 21 | It 's a matter of fact rather than rather than rather than a matter what is shown on the one inch map . |
| 22 | Well I 'm , as a matter of fact before that I actually said that er this , all this that I am doing on your behalf is completely free of charge |
| 23 | If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception . |
| 24 | At the same time you bleep the missing swimming pool attendant who responds by picking up the nearest intercom substation handset allowing you to issue instructions directly , all within a matter of seconds rather than minutes . |
| 25 | But this should be a matter of manners rather than draconian policies . |
| 26 | The police probably knew everything ; it was only a matter of time now before they challenged her about that sample of nail polish . |
| 27 | It 's only a matter of time now before they find some forensic evidence linking him to the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 28 | But even if you were you need n't expend any sympathy on my behalf — my tonsured condition is a matter of design rather than accident . |
| 29 | The Tropic of Capricorn was a matter of days away and the ice raft was almost gone . |
| 30 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |