Example sentences of "now a matter " in BNC.

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1 It is now a matter of history that — notwithstanding an outlay of £150million at current prices on research and development and prototype trains — the technical potential of the train was never achieved and in 1983 the entire project was abandoned .
2 It is now a matter of personal preference as to whether you use loose tea of speciality tea-bags .
3 It was now a matter of whether he , Mouse Fawley , could survive the attack .
4 For Fisher , speaking on his Education Bill in 1917 , the ‘ governing conception ’ of the proposals was to ensure ‘ the production of good citizens ’ , which was now a matter of some urgency since the extension of the franchise had put ‘ a greater demand than ever before upon the civic spirit ’ .
5 No longer need a search for set words be made ; it was now a matter of seeking words , or even deeds , which need do no more than satisfy the minimal essential principles of the law of trusts .
6 In other words , the repatriations of the Yugoslavs should continue ; the methods being used to carry them out were found to be " satisfactory " as an alternative to the " use of force " , and this was now a matter of full agreement between Eighth Army and AFHQ .
7 There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy .
8 The success of the Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement also sent a clear signal to equivocating party political leaders that a unified front to combat the growing threat of fascism was now a matter of urgency .
9 This is to some extent contradicted by Lloyd George , who subsequently wrote : ‘ It is now a matter of history how we expressed our readiness to serve under Mr Balfour-all of us except Mr Asquith , who asked indignantly , ‘ What is the proposal ?
10 What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept .
11 The Irish Government says the 10-year-old scandal has already been fully investigated by the Garda and , unless new evidence is produced , it is now a matter for the Gibraltar authorities .
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