Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may only be a matter of time before MaliVai Washington , for one , sees the family name being represented in the wider context of majority black participation in the sport which has , for so long , been predominantly whites only territory . |
| 2 | The benefit of these reactions have to be understood in terms of life in the wild , where fighting off predators , or fleeing from them , may literally be a matter of life or death . |
| 3 | But , when it may literally be a matter of life and death , might it not be worth putting things on hold for another twelve months ? |
| 4 | It should only be a matter of time before they return to common sense and reason . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing yet , but I 've got a team working around the clock so it should only be a matter of time before they come up with the answers . ’ |
| 6 | As I discuss at greater length in Chapter 10 , your first visits should just be a matter of getting to know the site , by wandering around . |
| 7 | Interpretation must always be a matter of matching up what is new to what is familiar : ideas can only be understood in reference to established categories of thought . |
| 8 | And language use must always be a matter of actualizing tokens as appropriate . |
| 9 | It must now be a matter of top priority for hauliers to take the best insurance advice available on the risks being run and the cover available for operations by road and sea to mainland Europe . |
| 10 | It should therefore be a matter of no difficulty to combine them . |
| 11 | Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers . |
| 12 | ‘ The authorities in Northern Ireland were quite satisfied that a substantial amount of explosives was in the area , and it might only be a matter of time until this sort of activity was renewed . ’ |
| 13 | They also realised that it might only be a matter of time before Poland 's enemies used the same tactic as part of a concerted effort to wipe the country from the maps again . |
| 14 | In the Highlands it might even be a matter of clanship , for in 1776 Lord Kames declared fugitive five women who had been responsible for assembling a mob which had insulted and attacked Patrick Grant , the new presentee at Boleskine , part of the forfeited Lovat estate , ‘ in resentment that they were not to get a gentleman of the name of Fraser to be their minister ’ . |
| 15 | Jerusalem , the very heart of Christendom , had been captured and it could only be a matter of time before the remaining Christian forces , still holding on at Tyre , Tripoli and Antioch , were overcome or expelled . |
| 16 | As for de Gaulle , his views were already well-known , and it could only be a matter of time before he attacked Hallstein and his Commission . |
| 17 | The Dwarfs sent word to the Dwarf capital of Karaz a Karak high in the Worlds Edge Mountains , explaining that the Night Goblins were virtually holding them prisoners within their own citadel and that without reinforcements it could only be a matter of time before the Dwarfs were defeated . |
| 18 | It could only be a matter of time before Wainfleet was using the information for his own purposes . |
| 19 | It could only be a matter of time , though , before we got together . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs said that interpretation of the agreement could only be a matter for the court . |
| 21 | ‘ I assume it 'd only be a matter of months before the divorce procedure was set in motion ? ’ |
| 22 | With the bad weather set to continue , they 're worried motorists simply wo n't learn their lesson , and it could just be a matter of time before motorway madness claims more lives . |
| 23 | Freud questions any easy ( or utopian ) idea or ideal of the unity of the self , he questions the idea that self-knowledge could ever be a matter of simple introspection , and he sees issues about desire and fantasy as central to subjectivity . |
| 24 | In the latter case it may even be a matter of reading one page in one session , whereas in the former you may be able to read and study a chapter — or even two . |
| 25 | This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships , giving advice about contraceptive clinics , or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems . |
| 26 | ln the latter as operation may simply be a matter of conforming to standard practices established by collective experience over time . |
| 27 | At one level , this may simply be a matter of ‘ massaging ’ the statistics , something in which all governments engage . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it would rather be a matter of relinquishment of the claim . |
| 29 | It would only be a matter of ti me before the pubs , the little grocer and the dry-cleaner 's were replaced by some establishment selling something on which an enormous mark-up could be obtained . |
| 30 | It would only be a matter of time , analysts warned , before a conservative backlash would begin with the usual repressive measures against bourgeois liberalism . |