Example sentences of "not a matter for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , despite the fact that a little over a year had passed since the Report had been received , he suggested that the interval between publication and the debate was not a matter for regret . |
| 2 | In answer to questions the Home Secretary at this time had stated that this was an issue for individual courts to make requests of the press , not a matter for legislation . |
| 3 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |
| 4 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 5 | But this is a matter for concern , not a matter for despair . |
| 6 | Yet , while he considers his relationships to be ‘ personal ’ and not a matter for newspaper talk , he played the public role of superstud for years . |
| 7 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 8 | Normally this is not a matter for negotiation : whichever one the parent picks is the priority . |