Example sentences of "be very [adv] [art] matter [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Coping with minor ills is very much a matter of learning how to live with them , making small but helpful adjustments to our way of life without letting the complaint loom too large or take over our lifestyle .
2 What one understands to be the use of computers in spectroscopy is very much a matter of personal prejudice , and care must be taken to avoid being misled by a general title such as this .
3 It is very much a matter of personal reaction and of personal taste .
4 The manner in which and the level at which revenue is to be raised is very much a matter of governmental policy as is the regulation of public expenditure generally .
5 The level required is very much a matter of experience .
6 Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences .
7 How you decide on the assembly order is very much a matter of personal judgement , but the principles of shot to shot continuity , the function of cutaways , and the ordering of your material into a logical progression of images which tell a story , all follow the same rules as for in-camera editing .
8 In reply to Hirsch , Scholes argues that knowledge and information are not the same : ‘ literacy is very much a matter of actual experience in the production and reception of texts . ’
9 In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials .
10 ‘ The settlement process is very much a matter of bargaining , and it is bargaining of a difficult and expensive character .
11 Yet the consequences of any significant changes are a matter of the utmost concern to planners and to politicians at all levels , the quantification of the costs and benefits of alternative policy strategies is very much a matter for economists , and the adaptation of societies to massive change is a particular interest to sociologists and others .
12 For Vietnam , reconstruction has been very much a matter of the people working together to turn the country green again .
13 Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care .
14 But what was put on the plinth was very much a matter for the taste of the occupier of the house for the time being …
15 Until the Bolshevik revolution the question of whether Marxists should be inside or outside the Labour Party was very much a matter for themselves , as for all other radical and socialist groups .
16 The early use of X-rays and radium for the treatment of cancer was very much a matter of trial and error .
17 It was very much a matter of life and death as far as the industry was concerned .
18 For the time being , his dissent from " traditional aesthetics " was very much a matter of finding his way among various alternative sets of ideas .
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