Example sentences of "matter of [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 A provision in the agreement allowed for matters of disagreement to be placed before a conciliation commission .
2 Below that age , a child may have the competence to consent or withhold consent but it is a matter of judgement to be exercised in each case by the person responsible for carrying out the examination or assessment ( Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] AC 112 ) .
3 It became a matter of pride to be ‘ chained to misfortune and failure ’ , like the picture ‘ The Prisoner ’ by Gérôme , showing a man lying fettered .
4 There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken .
5 It 's a matter obviously it 's a matter of weight to be given to it .
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