Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 2 | This rewriting of history was not so much a matter of starting again , but of making use , for a new purpose , of knowledge which was already available , whether in the work of philosophers like Hegel , economists like Ricardo , biologists like Darwin , or anthropologists . |
| 3 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 4 | It is not so much a matter of deciding in advance which activities and what kinds of adult input match the child 's level of development , either in terms of language or cognitive abilities ; rather , it is a matter of the adult being sensitive to the child 's changing communicative needs and adjusting her speech and actions from one moment to the next . |
| 5 | It is not so much a matter of praying together ( good though that is ) , but of being one in purpose and spirit . |
| 6 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 7 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 8 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 9 | Freedom , we now notice , is not always a higher ideal than those with which it competes , nor is rationality necessarily just a matter of self-interest . |
| 10 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 11 | It is n't very long Should n't be in there long just a matter of signing all the things , checking all the details over , putting in what he has n't filled in already . |
| 12 | Anorexia is much more a matter of pride . |
| 13 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 14 | If the courts are understandably reluctant to interfere where ‘ serious disorder ’ is concerned , what constitutes ‘ serious disruption to the life of the community ’ is much more a matter of judgment , and not one in which the police are necessarily more expert than the courts . |
| 15 | Nowadays it is much more a matter of choice . |
| 16 | Profit and loss from war was not necessarily always a matter of individual enterprise . |
| 17 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 18 | He cites ‘ the interest of scholarship and fair-mindedness ’ , which are as it happens rather grand terms , but is it not rather a matter of free speech than of insinuation or imprecation ? |
| 19 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 21 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 22 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 23 | This is not necessarily a matter of money . |
| 24 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 25 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
| 26 | The way that the school deals with these situations is not only a matter of effective communications but one of marketing . |
| 27 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 28 | It is not only a matter of two eyed vision , because one-eyed people can also do the trick . |
| 29 | This is not only a matter of common courtesy but will help create/ maintain your image as a good employer . |
| 30 | The grimness was not only a matter of the appalling weather conditions , nor of the remoteness from all comforts and advantages of city life . |