Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] such matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't be flippant about such matters . ’ |
| 2 | If you are interested in such matters track his words down , for they are succinct and carry a weight of authority I could not possibly hope to emulate . |
| 3 | His youth now seemed so distant that he was no longer particularly interested in such matters , and he confessed to his wife that he did not understand a word of that thesis . |
| 4 | Our society 's moral values have also changed and we are more liberal and tolerant of such matters as entertainment . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's only natural for you to be ignorant about such matters . |
| 6 | Mr Newton replied : ‘ There are well-established rules governing what is reasonable and appropriate in such matters . |
| 7 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 8 | All Charles needs to do is satisfy himself that your future son-in-law is proficient in such matters , and even he will be content . |
| 9 | While we agree that emotions should become a legitimate study for anthropologists , we nevertheless feel that the degree of consensus is minimal in such matters and that , for the time being at least , we should abandon universalistic explanatory models , and instead locate such studies within the indigenous understanding . |
| 10 | So long as we do n't confuse faction with history , perhaps we should n't agonise too much over such matters . |
| 11 | How far any homosexuality in the physical sense went on I can not say , mainly because I was rather naive about such matters , but rumours and counter-rumours abounded . |
| 12 | The college student counselling services are well-experienced in such matters and can be very supportive . |
| 13 | That Eliot tended to be curious in such matters , others have noted , and they have sometimes inferred some oddity in his own make-up . |
| 14 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 15 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 16 | Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected . |
| 17 | Our record compares unbelievably well with that of the previous Government who were responsible for such matters . |
| 18 | The actions of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , when he was responsible for such matters , together with our recent announcement , have made arrangements for the coming winter much more generous . |
| 19 | The remainder of the Council was concerned with such matters . |
| 20 | Here we see the links between certain political positions which are not concerned with such matters as the social causes of ill-health and the medical model . |
| 21 | This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters . |
| 22 | When an illness occurs , those who are knowledgeable in such matters proffer a diagnosis . |
| 23 | But it was n't a good start in the lessons of love , and left me very arid in such matters . |
| 24 | He was old-fashioned in such matters . |
| 25 | Paul was acute on such matters . |
| 26 | Although we will never know officially , because the Lawn Tennis Association is understandably touchy and secretive about such matters , I would be highly surprised to discover that they lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event at the new National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in November . |
| 27 | The week-end had been great , but men left to themselves are apt to get a mite slipshod about such matters as mealtimes . |
| 28 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 29 | All statements of fact and information contained or referred to in the Disclosure Letter are true and complete and are not misleading in any respect , all statements of opinion therein have been made after due and careful enquiry and are reasonably believed to be correct and nothing has been omitted from the Disclosure Letter which renders any of such matters misleading . |
| 30 | When teachers ask what librarians can offer in pupil.guidance , chartered librarians often retort that their own knowledge of children 's literature greatly exceeds that of the average teacher ( usually strikingly untutored in such matters ) , and when self-styled educational technologists wonder what a librarian can tell a student about a filmstrip , the retort in recent years has been prompt , and along the same lines . |