Example sentences of "for [det] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which of these two conceptions , for that matter , we may even sometimes wonder , is which ? |
| 2 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 3 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 4 | Auditions are nerve-wracking for everyone who does them ( and for that matter , for everyone who watches them ) but being sure of your text is the least you can do . |
| 5 | ( Or first person narration for that matter . ) |
| 6 | Nor for that matter on crime . |
| 7 | It is because trying to give credit to this great poet commits a patriotic Englishman ( or Scotsman for that matter — Fraser is a Scot ) to very tormenting and unwelcome questions and reflections about the spiritual state of England or Scotland today , and over the last fifty years . |
| 8 | Will a person 's accent , dress or skin colour indicate the potential terrorist or , for that matter , football hooligan or drug pusher ? |
| 9 | Or Quine for that matter ? |
| 10 | Nor , for that matter , does investment income . |
| 11 | ( 'You have to attain a high degree of musical stupidity in order to find watching the beat , or the conductor 's inane face for that matter , easier for the purpose of knowing how or when to play than simply listening to the music , ’ he argued . ) |
| 12 | No one has yet suggested that Mikhail Gorbachev , or anyone else for that matter , should make himself Lord Protector . |
| 13 | Each of the last three World Cup-winning sides , two from Argentina and one from Brazil ( and , for that matter , the victorious Dutch in the last European Championship ) , were dominated by men in their mid-twenties . |
| 14 | If private enterprise in a capitalist society is not trying to do that , there is no point in private enterprise — nor , for that matter , in a capitalist society . |
| 15 | But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ? |
| 16 | once again , many rock critics receive enough tapes — and , for that matter , video promos — to build a model village . |
| 17 | It is often difficult in retrospect , or even contemporaneously for that matter , to discern the part that psychic repression plays in any instance of homophobia . |
| 18 | Conversely , desire bears the imprint of disgust : even as the low other becomes an object of longing , it is simultaneously that on to which is displaced a self-disgust that inheres at the centre of bourgeois desire , and for that matter other forms of desire . |
| 19 | I think there has always got to be for any executive — and for any employee for that matter — new challenges , new frontiers to keep them enthused . |
| 20 | Marx and Engels and , for that matter , Morgan and their other sources , were in no way peculiar in this belief ; they were representatives of a current of opinion that was almost universally accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century . |
| 21 | Boxing , or football for that matter , was stili pretty rough and the crowds could be crude and rowdy , but the overall impression was of a more orderly world . |
| 22 | Neither for that matter had Bardsley beyond hinting that Hatton had been prudent . |
| 23 | Nothing like them had ever been seen in Stowerton , nor , for that matter , Nurse Rose believed , in London . |
| 24 | Or cheiranthus or cherries or cheese for that matter ; anything will look delicious laid tenderly across its rustic expanse of whippet-brown and bark-green willow . |
| 25 | Nor , for that matter , can family life be a question of chic . |
| 26 | He uses the soccer method , but unusually for a rugby player , or soccer player for that matter , has the facility to kick well with either foot . |
| 27 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 28 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 29 | But while England and , for that matter , Scotland , are being stampeded into adopting them before the ink on the bill is even dry , there is a definite lack of urgency west of Offa 's Dyke . |
| 30 | I mooned about the house , not getting on well with writing , nor for that matter with reading . |