Example sentences of "[not/n't] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not matter if the opponent steps out as long as your technique strikes home before the referee has time to stop the bout . |
| 2 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 3 | As for the build-up venues for the Grand Slam Cup , providing the surface was the same , the geographical choice need not matter . |
| 4 | Once again the importance of style needs to be stressed , given that the poundage you lift does not matter as much as the way in which you lift it . |
| 5 | You must have been receiving or entitled to income support or supplementary benefit for a continuous period of 26 weeks ( but one break of 14 days or less will not matter ) . |
| 6 | It does not matter on which style of dance a choreographer bases his design . |
| 7 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 8 | It does not matter whether or not DRG makes sellotape or Basildon Bond — it 's of no consequence to anybody if somebody else makes them . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose it does not matter that this was a policy until lately dear to his heart , and even dearer to his wife 's . |
| 10 | It does not matter what happens to the public reputation of John Donne . |
| 11 | ‘ We need some people to be made to testify under oath so we can find out what went wrong with that investigation , ’ said Mr Laframboise , stressing that , at this point , it does not matter that most of the physical evidence has been destroyed . |
| 12 | The point is that past deficits do not matter to serious players of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings game . |
| 13 | Whoever ends up fighting the election , Mr Kishen suggested , royal parentage will not matter as much to Bharatpur voters as the government 's abysmal record on rural development , inflation and corruption and its failure to fulfil promises made during the 1984 campaign . |
| 14 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 15 | What none of these groups would find reassuring is a repeat of the old Lawson line that the deficit does not matter . |
| 16 | Of all the arguments the Chancellor deploys , the most powerful is the contention that the deficit does not matter because it does not represent borrowing by the public sector — in effect the deficit is all in the private sector . |
| 17 | The Chancellor should be wary of the argument that the deficit does not matter because it is in the private sector . |
| 18 | Other individual reports are also obtained ( so does it really not matter whom you know ? ) and are added to each individual 's file . |
| 19 | Social background may not matter much now ( but until they publish the list we can not judge this for ourselves ) , but the 100 per cent increase in party professionals getting on the list and getting elected to Parliament between 1979 and 1987 can not , surely , be just coincidence ? |
| 20 | With fears of a US recession calmed , the conventional wisdom is that the deficit does not matter much any more . |
| 21 | What would happen to US monetary policy guided by a Treasury Secretary like Donald Regan , who proclaimed that ‘ deficits do not matter ’ ? |
| 22 | According to one columnist , Carmen Rigalt , her inexperience does not matter : ‘ Carmen is the smile of the regime . ’ |
| 23 | Fisher replied that it did not matter much . |
| 24 | The burden of many studies , subject to such qualifications , is that on balance political factors like party or ideology or electoral competitiveness do not matter much , compared to a country 's level of economic development . |
| 25 | Soon , soon if she has the courage , it will not matter , mt will be too late for anyone to protest , to come to her with sensible and sound advice . |
| 26 | She knew the doctor thought she was a lunatic , but as she would never see her again , it did not matter now as much as the truth . |
| 27 | It did not matter to her anyway . |
| 28 | It did not matter that it was the Rose they had grown to like . |
| 29 | For all practical purposes in traffic it does not matter which gear is engaged and there is never any lack of overtaking power . ’ |
| 30 | This need not matter but the following advice is aimed at those for whom it is an inconvenience . |