Example sentences of "[det] a matter " in BNC.

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1 Is there any obligation for an external audit to be carried out on the books and records of the organisation , or is this a matter to be decided according to an internally agreed constitution ?
2 Nor is this a matter of division between a pro-government side and an anti-government one .
3 But if he believes this a matter for regret , if he believes the decisions that established that " right " were either unjust or inefficient or both , he sees no reason why he should extend the principle underlying these decisions any further than other judges already have .
4 Yet a lay statesman ought not in such a matter to trample upon the opinions of his Church advisers .
5 No court can or should give him direction on such a matter .
6 There are places , at least ways and means to deal with such a matter .
7 Yet he must make a tentative judgment on inadequate evidence , for such a matter is of fundamental importance .
8 What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' .
9 The attitude of the Bench to past proposals for the reform of the criminal law did not suggest that their judgment in such a matter was reliable , and those Government supporters in Parliament who had given most study to the matter were unanimously in favour of abolition .
10 No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter .
11 He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter .
12 If a client does not identify a failure on the part of a landlord to make repairs to a rented house as a problem appropriate to a solicitor , or if a solicitor considered such a matter outside his or her field , it would not , under such a definition , be a legal problem .
13 The whole House will be very relieved to know that such a matter is not entirely in a Minister 's hands .
14 And the whole business of managing the time , the resources and the , meeting the specifications is , is very much a matter which quality management addresses .
15 We feel that this is very much a matter for the district councils in the preparation of their local plans , with their local knowledge which is something we do not have at the county level to be able to make comment on .
16 Is that a matter which could be overcome by detailed position ?
17 Well , with the coffee it 's all a matter of putting the sugar in first and stirring well .
18 It is all a matter of acclimatisation ... and practice .
19 All a matter of metabolism , ’ he said airily .
20 Deciding which achievement was the most remarkable is all a matter of taste .
21 ‘ I suppose she ca n't help it , ’ Alan , Jane 's neighbour , philosophised , ‘ it 's all a matter of how the genes , or the DNA or whatever it is , falls .
22 It 's all a matter of driver ability and confidence .
23 So far as the Grand Junction Canal company itself is concerned , it is all a matter of inference and speculation .
24 Perhaps it 's all a matter of style .
25 As you can see , it is all a matter of common sense yet hundreds of windsurfers are rescued off the British coastline each year .
26 It 's all a matter of luck , I suppose . ’
27 It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel .
28 All good advice , but all a matter of ‘ thou shalt not ’ .
29 Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’
30 It 's all a matter of experimentation — something a unique setup like this positively encourages , since it sounds like no other bass .
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