Example sentences of "[conj] a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , that where a matter paid and accepted in satisfaction of a debt certain might by any possibility be more beneficial to the creditor than his debt , the court will not inquire into the adequacy of the consideration . |
| 2 | Where a matter or action is pending in the court the district judge may order that a party may inspect and make a copy of any document referred to on the Land Register ( s 112(3) of the Land Registration Act ( as amended ) and r 8 of the Land Registration ( Open Register ) Rules 1990 ( SI No 13625 of 1990 ) ) . |
| 3 | Was ‘ Jobs or Income ’ an unreasonable , left-wing slogan , or a matter of human survival ? |
| 4 | That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy . |
| 5 | It is a measure of Edward II 's loss of control of his family that a matter as important as his heir 's marriage could be arranged without his prior knowledge or consent . |
| 6 | What happens is that a matter particle , such as an electron or a quark , emits a force-carrying particle . |
| 7 | It is a farce — indeed , it is tragic — that a matter of such grave concern to the people of Scotland should be raised in an Adjournment debate when time is limited . |
| 8 | If the court considers that a matter has not been disclosed and that matter might have affected shareholders ' decisions on how to vote , it is unlikely to sanction the scheme ( see , for example , Re Jessel Trust Limited [ 1985 ] BCLC 119 and Re MB Group plc [ 1989 ] 5 BCC 684 ) . |
| 9 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 10 | coul could n't you say that a matter of community law erm er simply a , a , a prohibition of that kind of er just has no effect just as far as erm any brief community |
| 11 | An uneasy feeling that we should wait to be asked back before we repeat an invitation , coupled with the rarity with which we have the energy to entertain , can reduce social intercourse to an annual gesture rather than a matter of maturing friendships . |
| 12 | For Origen that was no more than a matter of tactics in controversy , not one of principle . |
| 13 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 14 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 15 | It is more than a matter , however , of just declaring our personal commitment to one viewpoint and then hoping that this will resolve all problems . |
| 16 | A decision to purchase new curtains is more than a matter of taste ; it is also a financial decision . |
| 17 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 18 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 19 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 20 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 21 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 22 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 23 | Here the notion of femininity is a more social one , rather than a matter of personality characteristics ; it entails social actions of particular varieties which are not simply dependent upon the person being gentle rather than aggressive . |
| 24 | It was more than a matter of dress and style . |
| 25 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 26 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 27 | These examples lend weight to Masterman 's assertion that ‘ news presentation is an ideological construction , rather than a matter of unproblematic reporting ’ ( Masterman , 1985:106 ) . |
| 28 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 29 | This is disproportionate , both in terms of the total Scottish population , and of the Scottish student population , so there are indications that a study of Scottish geology is important to developments within the science as a whole , rather than a matter of purely local interest . |
| 30 | Another such verb is leave ; hence example ( 3 ) ( b ) from Chapter 4 , repeated here : ( 40 ) this process leaves the items date-stamped is in fact structurally ambiguous in three ways rather than two , since the final adjective may be a postnominal attributive , a predicate qualifier , or an adverbal ; it remains true , however , that the ambiguity is one of structure rather than a matter of elusive " shades of lexical meaning " . |