Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would , he had informed her at their first meeting , be mostly a matter of watching and listening for the moment . |
| 2 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 3 | In some cases this might be literally a matter of life and death . |
| 4 | With luck it may be only a matter of time . |
| 5 | So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well . |
| 6 | All that has happened in tokamaks has been consistent with the 1970 view , formulated by Lev Artsimovich , that achieving the conditions required for thermonuclear ignition in tokamaks would be only a matter of time and of larger machines and the development of ways of heating the plasma . |
| 7 | Suffering happens , is not chosen , is a ‘ misfortune ’ ; shall we say that , since by nature attention quickens only as a function of the organism striving towards its goals , the optimum of internal and external stimulation to awareness can be only a matter of chance ? |
| 8 | And it was easy to believe that the evidence for test-tube fusion was fairly solid , good enough that it would be only a matter of time before it was proven definitively , especially with the BYU people already claiming to have some independent evidence . |
| 9 | It can be only a matter of time before stories of patients being denied care because of lack of resources are in the headlines . |
| 10 | Now that good double blind studies have proved its worth — which Kay chooses to ignore — the technique is becoming increasingly available under the NHS , and it can be only a matter of time before his conversion is assured . |
| 11 | It seems to be only a matter of time before sufficient urification is achieved routinely to permit the full range of diagnosis based on the polymerase chain reaction as above . |
| 12 | If such secret missives were sealed personally by him it might be only a matter of time before Wolsey 's enemies at court and parliament began to point the accusing finger in his direction . |
| 13 | It ought to be only a matter of time before the brothers are forced to sell the company . |
| 14 | ‘ It may be only a matter of minutes before they break through . ’ |
| 15 | At the age of 26 , it could be only a matter of time before Falconer completes the full set of international honours . |
| 16 | At the age of 26 , it could be only a matter of time before Falconer completes the full set of international honours . |
| 17 | It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance . |
| 18 | Kenneth Branagh 's own performance — correct , passionless , all intelligence - will be entirely a matter of taste . ’ |
| 19 | Institutional labels would suggest not ; it seems to be largely a matter of historical accident whether a university , polytechnic or college has a faculty/school of humanities or one of arts ( or even letters ) . |
| 20 | In the instant case the words of section 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 that fall to be construed , ‘ provision in relation to … retirement ’ , without any undue straining of the ordinary meaning of the language used , are capable of bearing either the narrow meaning accepted by the Employment Appeal Tribunal or the wider meaning preferred by the Court of Appeal but acknowledged by that court to be largely a matter of first impression . |
| 21 | If the software documentation is readable and understandable , this should be largely a matter of following instructions . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , it might not be just a matter of rescheduling ‘ waking time ’ and ‘ mealtimes ’ along the lines we have suggested above , since the body does not adjust immediately to the new routine . |
| 23 | With Walsh then skimming the bar with a spectacular overhead shot , it seemed to be just a matter of time before Tottenham would score . |
| 24 | That both planets should be suffering ice ages simultaneously may , of course , be just a matter of coincidence ; but it seems more likely that there is a common cause . |
| 25 | ‘ It would seem to be just a matter of time before the man 's identified . ’ |
| 26 | Internal review will then be just a matter of mechanically scrutinizing numbers on a balance sheet , rather than engaging in a critical dialogue over the educational effectiveness of courses . |
| 27 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 28 | It might be just a matter of buying time and hoping the Admiral dropped dead of a stroke or something . ’ |
| 29 | It will not be just a matter of turning up to beat Grimsby and Wolves . |
| 30 | 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 . |