Example sentences of "[det] do not matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court . |
| 2 | This did not matter , since it was the topics that counted , not the order of them or the way they were introduced . |
| 3 | This did not matter . |
| 4 | This does not matter too much , for the unblinkered reader could hardly miss the fact that Simenon was singularly dislikeable , addicted to excess and casual brutality . |
| 5 | This does not matter too much for the younger pupils , since they draw readily and without inhibition , but it does become an issue with slightly older children . |
| 6 | I have known patients to be worried because they have on occasion fallen asleep while practising — but in fact this does not matter . |
| 7 | Any inbuilt coding — in the form of genes — that could affect us after our child-bearing period is irrelevant to the survival of the species : the genes involved might code us for death but , in terms of the species , this does not matter because we have already served our purpose by reproducing . |
| 8 | This does not matter as long as your rewards are practical , modest and capable of being delivered immediately when Olwyn goes to bed before 8pm . |
| 9 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 10 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 11 | However , this does not matter much , since the book has to be printed and that is not so simple in Russia at the moment . |
| 12 | In the school on whose work the Curriculum Development Project 's notebook was based , not all the sub-topics picked out by Mrs Ball were taken up , and of course it is the joy of a topic of this kind that this does not matter ; one is not concerned with " covering the syllabus " and " getting everything in " , but providing the stimulus for valuable enquiry , the development of interest and of concepts , and the practice of a variety of skills . |
| 13 | Much of the time , this does not matter , because the speed of cutting does nothing to obscure the storyline of the commercial , but occasionally it can lead to total confusion . |
| 14 | This does not matter in normal situations , because the radius of curvature of space-time is very large compared to the uncertainty in the position of a particle . |
| 15 | This does not matter too much , because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms . |
| 16 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 17 | If we are interested only in smoothing for pictorial representation , this does not matter . |
| 18 | That did not matter much when rich foreigners used Switzerland simply as a safe home for their money . |
| 19 | The overhead lights started going out , but that did not matter to him . |
| 20 | That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight . |
| 21 | They might still , for their own sakes , be taught in groups segregated according to ability , and that did not matter . |
| 22 | He had never assumed her to possess a quality of mind like his own , a shared humour , interests in whatever interested him ; but that did not matter in a wife . |
| 23 | She did n't know what she was going to do when she found him , but that did not matter right now . |
| 24 | Not one of them had even a plucked smidgeon of the pseudo-lesbian strap-on-dildo shaggability of a McCartney or a Cassidy , but that did not matter . |
| 25 | She had little money for clothes , but that did not matter ; it did not even matter , much , to her , though sometimes she wished she had more than two dresses , one pink , one grey . |
| 26 | Often it turned out that there was no practical purpose to which a discovery so obtained could be put , because of the prohibitions imposed by the Yasa ; but that did not matter to the Sechem , for whom the pursuit of information was an end in itself . |
| 27 | But that did not matter now . |
| 28 | Mine was very small , with hardly space for a fold-up bed , washstand , bureau , padded chest for clothes , and easy chair ; but that did not matter . |
| 29 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 30 | This 4-tuple I' of coordinates in the TV images may not actually correspond to any real point in the 3-dimensional space of possible positions for the torch , but that does not matter . |