Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] be [art] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of the increase or decrease is a matter of preference . |
| 2 | In the end , success or failure was a matter not of sex , but of personality and political intelligence . |
| 3 | The purpose of these questions was to try to get some sense of the spaces occupied by each discipline , how well that space was defined , and to what extent disciplinary identity or integrity was a matter of epistemological structure ( unifying theories , concepts , methods , etc. ) or a more elusive matter of disciplinary ‘ culture ’ , involving academic norms , ethos or styles . |
| 4 | Aggression becomes a category or phenomenon whose presence or absence is a matter for empirical investigation . |
| 5 | Whether you use Mr or Esq is a matter of personal preference . |
| 6 | But of greater importance for the social anthropologists themselves is that in many societies the distinction between biological kinship and sociological kinship is quite clearly recognized and the degree of their identification or dissociation is a matter of formal rules : " Copulation and marriage are not the same thing " or : " Copulation and marriage are the same thing " as the case may be . |
| 7 | As we shall see , the decision whether to categorise such questions as ones of law or fact is a matter on which opinion , both judicial and academic , differs . |
| 8 | How the media cover crime and law-enforcement is a matter of continual debate , especially so when violence enters the picture . |
| 9 | Only those whose commitment to free enterprise and opportunity is a matter of conviction , not convenience , have the necessary strength to sustain them . |
| 10 | In this model , growth is undirected , and research is a matter of taking soundings , by questionnaire . |
| 11 | For social scientists , then , environmental monitoring and prediction are a matter of considerable significance , especially as ‘ globalization ’ of markets and economies proceeds . |
| 12 | The interrelationship of modernism and post-modernism is a matter of some controversy ( see , for example , James on 1984 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |
| 14 | So , as with choice among different types of credit arrangement , choice between credit and cash is a matter of practical reality for only a minority of consumers . |
| 15 | Style and colour are a matter of personal taste . |
| 16 | Working party interim reports , Secretary of State reactions , draft materials and final publications were all sent direct to schools but , unlike the organization of assessment , the mapping out of the curriculum and its proper support through staffing , books and other resources , time and leadership were a matter for heads and curriculum leaders . |
| 17 | ( That is to say , the fit between meanings and perceptions is a matter of social convention , just as much as the historical process by which each language comes to have its own particular set of word forms for the meanings which it uses . |
| 18 | The relation between these inherent motives for culture and society is a matter that requires analysis of the epigenetic regulations of brain growth , about which little is yet known . |
| 19 | The exact relationship between glagolitic and Cyrillic is a matter of dispute amongst scholars . |
| 20 | This was indeed a triumph ; like most of those who make predictions , Owen got some animals wrong later ( identifying as mammals what turned out to be reptilian remains ) , but connoisseurship is a matter of probabilities rather than certainties . |