Example sentences of "less a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ending of what amounted to class segregation was less a matter of the democratic spirit of professionals finally asserting itself than of the decline of the amateur . |
| 2 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 3 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 4 | In this case it becomes less a matter of addressing contemporary political problems than of resisting institutional power , namely those critical readings which have recently claimed cultural hegemony , and of providing instead alternative accounts which insist on heterogeneity and resistance in historical texts . |
| 5 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 6 | Preparation for the task of managing by means of a partnership is less a matter of structured training than a process of growth . |
| 7 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |