Example sentences of "[art] matter [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crux of the matter is whether compensation should be paid to the investors : if Sir Anthony has thus decided , then the Government should duly oblige . |
| 2 | The truth of the matter is that the current account deficit is a touchstone for the success of the Thatcher revolution . |
| 3 | But the plain truth of the matter is that there are just not enough jobs available for all the newly qualified divers pumped out by these companies . |
| 4 | The truth of the matter is that the bridge was built in the mid-18th century by James Essex to a design by W. Etheridge , an undergraduate . |
| 5 | The fact of the matter is that you have no choice either way , and rightly so . |
| 6 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 7 | The truth of the matter is that , conceptually , rhythm occupies that grey area of learning that few students of the guitar will admit to having any desire to explore . |
| 8 | The fact of the matter is that we , as a country , desperately need to catch up with our counterparts in Europe , in the USA and in Japan , when it comes to the level of qualification held by the workforce . |
| 9 | Perhaps the heart of the matter is that they trusted Mr Major and not Mr Kinnock , especially after the Prime Minister , in his final broadcast , spoke about giving people peace of mind and a nation at ease with itself . |
| 10 | The truth of the matter is that it depends on the person and not the music we listen to . |
| 11 | ‘ The truth of the matter is that until we start to strip her down we do n't know what we will find , nobody ever does , ’ commented Mr John Leech . |
| 12 | The fact of the matter is that in terms of setting up some kind of economic common market , much of the groundwork had already been done . |
| 13 | The truth of the matter is that the FDR provides the investigator with a very useful tool which can produce a reliable and totally impartial record of the primary flight parameters against a time base , from which it is possible to reconstruct the flight path in three dimensions . |
| 14 | Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments . |
| 15 | The truth of the matter is that we do not know how — in any meaningful , scientific , experimentally demonstrable sense — advertising works . |
| 16 | ‘ The importance of the matter is that the plaintiffs can not succeed simply because of the superior position of the defendant . |
| 17 | He went on : ‘ The truth of the matter is that Mr Branson and the Virgin Group appear to be ’ determined to get the company exclusively for themselves and to exclude me from it . |
| 18 | The few who have attempted to query appointments at a local level have been met by shocked indignation and comments like : ‘ The fact of the matter is that the applications that we receive from doctors from the subcontinent leave much to be desired . ’ |
| 19 | The fact of the matter is that there is no equality of opportunity , there never was , and we wonder if there ever will be . |
| 20 | The truth of the matter is that this sectarian phase of PCF development coincided precisely with a highly sectarian phase in Nizan 's personal development . |
| 21 | The truth of the matter is that , despite Nizan 's abiding suspicions of the motives of the French and British governments , the logic of the situation seemed to him to lead to only one solution : a common alliance with the USSR against fascism . |
| 22 | The crux of the matter is that while one can accept the proposition that judicial labels often express a conclusion already reached , rather than dictate the result which should be arrived at , to infer that therefore the type of labels that we use are irrelevant is a non sequitur . |
| 23 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ The nub of the matter is that MacQuillan never had the money to buy a paper in Fleet Street or do battle with the unions . ’ |
| 25 | The truth of the matter is that the policy of placing the interests of a managed exchange rate above the real needs of the economy can only be conceived sensibly as part and parcel of a geopolitical strategy to move Britain towards participation in a Single Currency , as required by the Treaty of Maastricht . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh well , you see , the truth of the matter is that dragons have never existed as you ( and , until I was poisoned some three months ago , I ) understand existence . |
| 27 | The truth of the matter is that it 's difficult enough to see the difference between a 32k colour rendition of a picture and a 24 bit one ( 16 million colours ) , so it 's all but impossible to see any difference between a 32k and a 64k colour image . |
| 28 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 29 | The fact of the matter is that it is not , as I have explained to the right hon. Gentleman on many occasions , happening only in this country . |
| 30 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |