Example sentences of "more a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spaces in a city are more valued , and their enhancing is more a matter of public concern . |
| 2 | It was more a matter of how BR 's organisation should be adapted to cope with a much tighter ( but more specific ) set of government directives . |
| 3 | Just in case you fail to deduce , for example , that war is more a matter of narcissistic games-playing than of honour for the play 's young soldiers , they helpfully tote around personal full-length mirrors in the court scenes . |
| 4 | It is more a matter of approaching the book 's arguments from within a milieu of relatively academic contemporary art theory and being unable to see the wood for the trees . |
| 5 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 6 | But the law does contain such offences , and it is more a matter of prosecutors making little use of them . |
| 7 | It is , however , more a matter of style than substance . |
| 8 | This distinctive corporate culture flourishes in an environment in which independence is more a matter of convention than anything else . |
| 9 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 10 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 11 | A lot of these same people would become suedeheads though — but it was more a matter of two styles merging . |
| 12 | More a matter of the amount of time required … excessive … good coaching does not come cheap … ’ |
| 13 | In the case of the NHS , it is not a matter of disbelief : it is more a matter of different interpretations of the faith . |
| 14 | Behavioural rights are more a matter of belief than legislation since they tend to be based on conclusions which you have reached about yourself in relation to others . |
| 15 | Several urban planners have also shown that even low-rise homes can give reasonably high urban densities ; it is more a matter of equitable distribution of urban land . |
| 16 | But whether the use of imitation wood is a success is more a matter of personal taste . |
| 17 | I could sense the energy starting to flow in him now that this fiction was coming alive , and I could see that he had used make-up on himself ; not greasepaint or anything heavy , more a matter of darkening and thickening his eyebrows and darkening his mouth , emphasizing rather than disguising . |
| 18 | There , it is more a matter of organisation . |
| 19 | Anorexia is much more a matter of pride . |
| 20 | ‘ There is no great problem , it is more a matter of principle , ’ said Louis . |
| 21 | As we have already mentioned , and as we shall reiterate in the next chapter , the distinction between these two forms of insanity is probably more a matter of psychiatric convenience than aetiological reality . |
| 22 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 23 | Art history as written by Italians can seem rather old fashioned , more a matter still of attributions than of ideas . |
| 24 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 25 | Computer mode fling exercises have persuaded Raup ( 1981 ) that for the important group of trilobites it was more a matter of ‘ bad genes ’ than ‘ bad luck ’ . |
| 26 | But generally speaking , the availability of landfill space is more a matter of politics than geology . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's more a matter of conditioning . |
| 29 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 30 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |