Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] a question of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geographical spread will be very much a question of how the highland and lowland TAVRAs — the Territorial Army volunteer reserve associations — decide to allocate their resources . |
| 2 | 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 send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 3 | Anna Coombes realised that the growing of healthy plants is much less a question of eliminating pests and diseases with chemicals than of providing optimum conditions for growth . |
| 4 | It is much more a question of knowledge and awareness of which foods to eat and which to avoid than it is of following blindly someone else 's strict regime . |
| 5 | I also suspect that all the major players will shortly move to 400dpi as their base resolution , it 's probably only a question of waiting for the engine manufacturers to get production rolling for the new CCITT Group IV facsimile standard and then taking the excess . |
| 6 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 7 | It 's really only a question of whether you get the extra one page or , or leave it as it is . |
| 8 | The choice of that training is often more a question of guidance than of selection . |
| 9 | It is important to notice that the distinction between these two kinds of language ( the artificially constructed and the communicating ) is often more a question of the way we use or think about a particular stretch of language , than the way it is in itself . |
| 10 | Michael Lawrence says that the Government accepts there is a problem and that ideally something ought to be done about it : ‘ It 's now just a question of what can be afforded ’ . |
| 11 | Perhaps the social science historian needs more contextual information because the passage of time may make it more difficult to make assumptions about what data signify , but this is surely only a question of degree . |
| 12 | It is then simply a question of using the tables to avoid oversight . |
| 13 | Salvation is found by reaching this enlightenment , and enables the editor of The New Humanity to write , ‘ It is no longer a question of ‘ What do we do to be saved ? ’ but more a realisation of ‘ ‘ How do we express a richer , more abundant lifestyle as saved individuals ? ’ |
| 14 | With Labour promising to revive the bill if they are elected , opposition to bloodsports being Liberal Democrat policy and the likelihood of a hung Parliament , it is no longer a question of whether hunting will be banned but when . |
| 15 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 16 | In a sombre May Day speech , Mengistu admitted that the government had suffered setbacks and called for renewed commitment to the war , saying : " It is no longer a question of national unity , but rather of national survival . " |
| 17 | What others call us is very much a question of age-group . |
| 18 | Harriet knew , of course , that she would never cease to care for Liza , but from then on it was much more a question of duty rather than any labour of love . |
| 19 | ‘ It was on the cards for ages , so it was really only a question of making it official , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | It was no longer a question of looking for a path to follow but of choosing which , for they rarely went a mile without being faced with the need to choose . |
| 21 | In the twentieth century the field of concern for architecture broadened to the everyday living environment ; housing for example was no longer a question of designing a single house , or even a group , but a whole estate or neighbourhood . |
| 22 | It was no longer a question of whether there would be a major reform but , rather , when and how . |
| 23 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 24 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |