Example sentences of "it [be] a question of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They are fighting for their enslavement as if it were a question of their salvation .
2 And really erm it 's a question of what board members would find the most useful and erm and
3 It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ?
4 ‘ Fairness ’ said Roger , ‘ does n't come into it , it 's a question of what is best for you ’ .
5 It 's a question of what happens from now on that 's very important .
6 Yeah , it 's a question of what goes up comes down .
7 Well , it probably would ; it 's a question of what kind of profile one wants a university to have .
8 If you 've got to act , you 've got to act , there 's no sense about it , it 's a question of something inside you compelling you , not letting you do anything else — the stage is your life , you do n't care about pay or conditions or — ’ I dried up .
9 It 's a question of we were told always to be brief , it has to be brief , you ca n't say everything .
10 They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation .
11 It 's a question of whose point of view it 's too far round from .
12 So it 's a question of us retaining , because to a certain extent we already have it , due to our customer past .
13 It 's a question of who stumbles into mediocrity first .
14 It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards .
15 It 's a question of you pay for what you get .
16 It is a question of which side of the river you take — the Maidenhead or the Buckinghamshire side .
17 It is a question of your firm 's policy .
18 Ultimately , it is a question of who , commercially , is to take the risk that a consent may be refused .
19 But then he supposed , it was a question of what one was used to : artificialities struck a stranger so much more strongly .
20 It was a question of which faction would win , that which was at least potentially pro-English and Protestant , or that which wanted to maintain the status quo , pro-French and Catholic .
21 If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did .
22 Next day it was a question of who would stay with Amiss , playing his first Test of the summer .
23 It was a question of who would lose her nerve , and Marie could see that Jenna was not about to lose hers .
24 And then it was a question of who was to conduct the piece .
25 They knew that they needed us and it was a question of our integrity and our goodwill .
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