Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not just a matter of handling gate-money and paying the players . |
| 2 | Politics , of course , was not just a matter of party or creed , but how many Right-On points were scored for being black or female . |
| 3 | Britain 's importance was not just a matter of the political prestige gained during the war . |
| 4 | For some of the writers this point was taken much further : it was not just a matter of unacknowledged ideological leanings ; the causal-corrective stance came to be portrayed as a fundamentally misguided and distorting approach to the study of crime . |
| 5 | But being a gentleman in England was not just a matter of giving orders ; it required considerable wealth , spent lavishly and in a way that commanded respect . |
| 6 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 7 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |
| 8 | El-Gharbi seemed to feel under no pressure at all to reduce his asking figure , and Owen felt that this was not just a matter of negotiating tactics . |
| 9 | The underlying question , however , was not just a matter of views . |
| 10 | The underlying question , however , was not just a matter of views , but the feeling that Edinburgh 's primary symbol — one of history , endurance and nationhood — would be diminished by speculative offices . |
| 11 | In Glasgow fighting between fans was not just a matter for juveniles . |
| 12 | It was not simply a matter of exporting enough to pay for necessary imports , as contemporary economic propaganda often suggested . |
| 13 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 14 | Yet it was not simply a matter of proposing ; the policy was soon enough carried out . |
| 15 | In days gone by flogging was not simply a matter of being whipped or beaten with a variety of canes — the pizzle was also available as an instrument of punishment . |
| 16 | It was he that realised that if solutions to deteriorating road safety were to be sought in terms of the physical environment for traffic , it was not simply a matter of improving roads , but of redesigning whole road systems : |
| 17 | The world 's economic relation to Europe has already been touched on ; it was not simply a matter of one-way domination . |
| 18 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 19 | It was not simply a matter of avoiding the dangers of under-utilizing capital equipment , but also avoiding any unnecessary increase in the recruitment of regular labour . |
| 20 | But further it must be said , in response to the conservative position , that it was not simply a matter of whim or chance that women were not in the past ordained . |
| 21 | But it was not simply a matter of taking one extra form : as the increase progressed up the School , it would become the equivalent in time of five extra forms , and it would not be until 1971 that such an expansion could be accommodated , as the building programme came to fruition . |
| 22 | It was not simply a matter of counter action , for the chapel with its meetings , services , love-feasts , etc. became in itself a centre of non-work-time activities and as the nineteenth century advanced , a deliberate purveyor of counter attraction . |
| 23 | It was not simply a matter of timing , for there is evidence of preparing for the moment by building up the organisation and , most important , a strike fund . |
| 24 | These and other habitualised forms of ‘ race-thinking ’ were further compounded in the fifties by social and economic factors which kept Blacks and Whites largely separate within their own sets of social networks and spaces , ‘ Crossing the line ’ was not merely a matter of breaking the boundaries of colour-based divisions in a figurative sense ; it was also often literally a matter of transgressing geographical boundaries : often with violent consequences . |
| 25 | It was not merely a matter of European machines or European clothes ( though the adoption of such uncomfortable dress in tropical countries is certainly a testimony to the prestige of European civilization ) . |
| 26 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
| 27 | Treatment was not merely a matter of prescribing herbal medicines , but a whole regimen which controlled the diet and the life-style . |
| 28 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 29 | The grimness was not only a matter of the appalling weather conditions , nor of the remoteness from all comforts and advantages of city life . |
| 30 | This was not only a matter of saying yes to petitioners and having the resources to say yes often , although Gloucester was well placed in this respect . |