Example sentences of "[adj] does [adv] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not matter too much , for the unblinkered reader could hardly miss the fact that Simenon was singularly dislikeable , addicted to excess and casual brutality . |
| 2 | This does not matter too much for the younger pupils , since they draw readily and without inhibition , but it does become an issue with slightly older children . |
| 3 | I have known patients to be worried because they have on occasion fallen asleep while practising — but in fact this does not matter . |
| 4 | Any inbuilt coding — in the form of genes — that could affect us after our child-bearing period is irrelevant to the survival of the species : the genes involved might code us for death but , in terms of the species , this does not matter because we have already served our purpose by reproducing . |
| 5 | This does not matter as long as your rewards are practical , modest and capable of being delivered immediately when Olwyn goes to bed before 8pm . |
| 6 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 7 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 8 | However , this does not matter much , since the book has to be printed and that is not so simple in Russia at the moment . |
| 9 | In the school on whose work the Curriculum Development Project 's notebook was based , not all the sub-topics picked out by Mrs Ball were taken up , and of course it is the joy of a topic of this kind that this does not matter ; one is not concerned with " covering the syllabus " and " getting everything in " , but providing the stimulus for valuable enquiry , the development of interest and of concepts , and the practice of a variety of skills . |
| 10 | Much of the time , this does not matter , because the speed of cutting does nothing to obscure the storyline of the commercial , but occasionally it can lead to total confusion . |
| 11 | This does not matter in normal situations , because the radius of curvature of space-time is very large compared to the uncertainty in the position of a particle . |
| 12 | This does not matter too much , because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms . |
| 13 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 14 | If we are interested only in smoothing for pictorial representation , this does not matter . |
| 15 | This does n't matter on the odd occasion ; it is only a problem if it occurs regularly . |
| 16 | This does n't matter , because it will still underlie your response . |
| 17 | There is no sound on the moon , but this does n't matter because there is no one to hear anything . |
| 18 | The text which appears in them is usually in lower case , but this does n't matter . |
| 19 | In most cases this does n't matter too much as the speed of the machine can be controlled by software instead . |
| 20 | But since more complicated instructions can always be broken down into a collection of simple steps , this does n't matter either . |
| 21 | ( The order of arguments in linear does n't matter . ) |
| 22 | Sub-text : ‘ I have the power to quiz you , and your discomfort at finding this intrusive does not matter . ’ |
| 23 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 24 | Ten so that fifty we 'll write it as five times ten or ten times five does n't matter let's write it as ten times five . |
| 25 | when any two states have a common descendant goal , so choosing a child which is not optimal does not matter too much . |
| 26 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 27 | For instance your being illegitimate does n't matter . |
| 28 | If you take one of our accountants who might spend a day a month with a small business , the fact that the business is small and we 're big does n't matter at all . |
| 29 | ‘ That does n't matter . |
| 30 | Well , that does n't matter . |