Example sentences of "not [art] matter " in BNC.

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1 As Churchland ( 1988 , p. 37 ) has put it , ‘ what is important for mentality is not the matter of which the creature is made , but the structure of the internal activities which that matter contains ’ .
2 The costs payable by a client to a solicitor in a civil matter will depend upon whether or not the matter is classified as ‘ contentious , ’ that term only applying where an action has begun .
3 ‘ But that is not the matter at issue . ’
4 That is not the matter before us .
5 Max Friedlander , an outstanding scholar of Northern European art , took the view that accepting a work into an artist 's oeuvre was like recognising a friend , not a matter of measurement or detailed scrutiny .
6 It 's not a matter of theorising — hard work never is .
7 But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge .
8 Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power .
9 Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts .
10 Dropping reference is not a matter of tentative acceptance of an unlikely position , but of doctrinal insistence .
11 This is not a matter of poor teaching , for such students can be the despair of conscientious teachers .
12 This is not a matter for the Government . ’
13 But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers .
14 Even now for a Pakistani , Indian or Bangladeshi woman waiting to join her husband in Britain it is not a matter of getting a ticket and boarding a plane .
15 Another sporting triumph followed hard upon the conquest of Everest and gave added reassurance to the nation , especially those steeped in the amateur spirit for whom the demolition of English professional football by Puskas and the Hungarians was not a matter for much regret .
16 It is NOT a matter of having a ‘ split personality ’ .
17 This was not a matter of political convenience .
18 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 .
19 Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work .
20 Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along .
21 It was not a matter to which any of them had ever given great thought .
22 There is nothing unique about this ; men are compelled by law to do it in almost every English village , and it is not a matter of one ghost or two , but a whole rout of them — quiet chaps in cowls , roaring boys in ruffs , ladies in farthingales .
23 ‘ The difference between the PWR proposed for Hinkley C and the RBMK reactor at Chernobyl is not a matter of degree or fine detail , ’ the Board 's engineering expert Brian George asserted to the Inquiry Inspector .
24 All the people that he painted that Ehrenburg knew resembled their portraits : ‘ What is extraordinary is that Modigliani 's portraits resemble each other ; it is not a matter of an assumed style or some superficial trick of painting , but of the artist 's view of the world …
25 It is not a matter of showing that he is entitled to have authority , but that he has it , that he is in authority , with all the consequences which follow from this fact .
26 If I am right then this is not a matter of meaning , but of normative justification .
27 But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle .
28 Anti-semitism was not a matter only of concern to Jews ; all Social Democrats must campaign against it — or leave the party .
29 Yet , while he considers his relationships to be ‘ personal ’ and not a matter for newspaper talk , he played the public role of superstud for years .
30 This time it is not a matter of rate-capping and ‘ the cuts ’ , though they no doubt played a part , but of decisions to recast teacher training .
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