Example sentences of "always a matter " in BNC.

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1 ‘ IT IS aesthetically always a matter of satisfaction when a notable house finds an occupant worthy of its quality , ’ wrote Christopher Hussey of ‘ this outstanding example of rustic baroque ’ and its owner , Cecil Beaton .
2 It is always a matter of surprise for people who belong to nations with written constitutions to discover that whilst the British enjoy many freedoms their constitution is not a written one .
3 But this knowledge will not alone enable us to understand language in use for this is always a matter of realizing the particular token meanings of signs in association with the context of utterance .
4 The essential point is that meaning negotiation , which , in normal circumstances , is always a matter of achieving an objective by the most economical means , will be carried out by taking whatever short cuts are available .
5 And it is not always a matter of sleeping in a swank hotel nearby ; several investigating teams have , from time to time , had to share a tent on or near the accident site because of the remoteness of the crash .
6 Professor Parker shows that this is not always a matter of dispassionate assessment but may turn on whether the research is seen to be delivering ‘ good ’ news or ‘ bad ’ news .
7 Ought there , in other words , to be a public morality , or are morals always a matter for private judgement ?
8 For him all vices are forms of mental illness , for vicious action is always a matter of submission to impulses which are seeking their own satisfaction at the expense of the satisfaction of the whole .
9 Which services these are to be is always a matter of dispute and may be a crucial factor in relations between central and local government .
10 Poverty makes economy impossible , not because the poor are improvident but because economy is always a matter of scale — bulk buying demands bulk incomes .
11 It 's always a matter of assessing probabilities .
12 I mean we use Standard Life , we use Clerical , we use most of the major groups , erm but it 's always a matter of trying to find the best contract at the time .
13 Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters .
14 Shah Jehan 's extraordinary sexual appetites were always a matter of some speculation in the Imperial City , both to travellers and to native Delhi-wallahs .
15 ‘ With Rohan , it is always a matter of business .
16 The Baronne 's words came stinging back at her : ‘ With Rohan , it is always a matter of business . ’
17 But maturity is n't always a matter of years .
18 Profit and loss from war was not necessarily always a matter of individual enterprise .
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