Example sentences of "be just a question of " in BNC.

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31 It 's just a question of waiting . ’
32 I mean for me I I 've gone beyond hoping in a way I mean it 's just a question of keeping going from week to week and I do n't know how to measure success .
33 Hauge is the man who brouht most of the scandivians to england and should be able to fix this ( he brought Limpar , Thorstvedt , Strandli , Flo ++ ) — i guess it 's just a question of days now ? ?
34 Maybe it 's just a question of practising .
35 It 's just a question of I was waiting till we 'd had
36 Well it 's just a question of him arranging the transport to get rid of it .
37 I it 's just a question of , you know , something in your make-up that is inoculating you and other people have a weakness .
38 but it 's just a question of finding it , it 's
39 It 's just a question of you coming and doing your best .
40 Well as he said well he did n't say but I mean it 's just a question of him putting them in the post .
41 No well I mean I can pay for it , it 's just a question of getting it and sort of erm only we 're not often here on a Sunday , if Mr is here , is it
42 Well it 's just a question of really of , of some if someone can , you know , I mean
43 Well I mean the children , I mean if I go into the school and I , and say to them look there is a fire there but , you know , please will you not use it but it 's just a question of whether the children fiddle with it really , that 's
44 but I think the other thing is that it 's just a question of the people in our business supposed to be being professional communicators
45 Yeah , but I agree , it 's just a question of the way you do it .
46 mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes .
47 This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler .
48 Although Modigliani had promised openly to marry Jeanne , it was just a question of arranging the papers …
49 It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride .
50 Now it was just a question of waiting to make sure the surgery had worked .
51 But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling .
52 I did not realise it was just a question of dialect ; I thought it was a question of grammar or , if you do not like that word , of logic .
53 I 've seen most of the programmes and for Mastermind it was just a question of re-reading all the Dr Who books again . ’
54 Mostly the waiter would go along with this , sensing that Oliver was one of those customers who did not , for all their enquiries , actually want any advice , and it was just a question of slowly reeling him in like a fish .
55 R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + +
56 It was just a question of — how shall I say ? — implementing it . ’
57 He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires .
58 ‘ They had a range that was selling , but with no one actually involved in planning it ; it was just a question of whatever anyone thought was pretty going in with no production schedules , no set ranges for satisfactory colour matching . ’
59 Steen was certainly around somewhere ; it was just a question of waiting ; and , in the meantime , fishing .
60 It was just a question of time .
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