Example sentences of "a matter of course " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any need to analyse the ways in which the multi-variant police world forms a coherent and self-sustaining whole is material for the social scientist and not the practitioners , for they already live the system as a matter of course . |
| 2 | C has become the de facto primary HLL now taught as a matter of course to all emerging electronics engineers and their education would be regarded as incomplete without it . |
| 3 | Whereas in the past the boards would say that advanced calculators could be used without additional calculating programmes or memory banks , such programmes and data banks are incorporated in the latest generation of machines as a matter of course . |
| 4 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 5 | As understood by Schutz , ‘ recipes ’ are standardized guide-lines for behaviour which are adopted as a matter of course , and vary depending upon the type of situation . |
| 6 | It is likely that Japan 's defence spending will continue to grow on the theory that circumstances in Asia are different from those in the West , and that burden sharing is a matter of course under the US-Japan security treaty . |
| 7 | And , as a matter of course , all duvet covers are matched with similarly designed pillowcases . |
| 8 | What distinguishes Regency houses perhaps most of all is the elaborate use of ironwork , which architects were just beginning to think of using as a matter of course . |
| 9 | Poll on poll has suggested that over half the population believes abortion should be legal as a matter of course , and that nearly 90% say it should be legal in certain cases . |
| 10 | The usual epithet applied to his bearing is patrician , and his batting , as a matter of course , is liberally endowed with arrogance . |
| 11 | Togetherness and self-help in the birth process , followed as a matter of course by breast feeding , is now embraced with less evangelical fervour than it was by Fifties pioneer couples . |
| 12 | Only the defeat of Britain — now widely presumed to be a matter of course — stood in the way , it seemed , of that final victory , and the intoxication of the triumph over the French mingled with a widespread desire , whipped up by almost hysterical anti-British hate propaganda , for the total destruction of Britain . |
| 13 | For experts like Belfast-based Campbell Freight Agencies Limited — who also operate from Dublin and Cork — such massive moves are a matter of course . |
| 14 | Some of the great whales , for instance , plunge from the surface to the depths as a matter of course , and divide their feeding and breeding between the poles and the tropics . |
| 15 | Whereas young men as a matter of course would study the classics , women would be instructed in painting , music , dancing , modern languages , or other accomplishments , but rarely would they be expected to achieve real competence Indeed , a learned woman was likely to experience difficulty finding a husband , and education might cease to be any advantage . |
| 16 | refer to information books , dictionaries , word books or simple data on computers as a matter of course . |
| 17 | ‘ Though I have shown photographs throughout my exhibition organising career , I took it as a matter of course and have shown them as I have any other art form and along side any other art form whether it is painting or sculpture . |
| 18 | The vagina , like the mouth , ears , or any other orifice open to the outside world is , as a matter of course , populated by many microorganisms , most of which rarely cause problems and give their host little reason to be aware of their presence . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was just in the kind of trance he went into as a matter of course every time illness was discussed . |
| 20 | Yet they can be refused insurance , while younger , less experienced drivers who are a similar risk , get cover as a matter of course . |
| 21 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 22 | When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives . |
| 23 | Turning to another point , whereas experimentalists are required to quote errors as a matter of course , theoretical chemists are not yet able to provide both upper and lower bounds in calculations of energies . |
| 24 | Some parents worry that rewarding good behaviour is a type of bribery , and believe that a child should do the right thing as a matter of course , simply because it is right . |
| 25 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 26 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 27 | There was , as a matter of course , a clever punster and an old joker , and no end of reminiscences with a strong spicing of the comic element in them . |
| 28 | If they meet as a matter of course throughout the year they can review and plan on a regular basis . |
| 29 | Much of the information may be gathered as a matter of course . |
| 30 | This might appear contrary to the idea of keeping systems thinking and real-world aspects separate , but it can provide a compromise that ensures that progress can be made ; however , such compromises should be recognised as such and not made as a matter of course . |