Example sentences of "longer a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once the principle is established that clubs , however innocent , can be punished to protect the public or players , it is no longer a matter of pure justice . |
| 2 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
| 3 | It was no longer a matter of one family or political grouping showing that it was domestically more powerful than any other . |
| 4 | In Finnegans Wake , the breach between word and world is no longer a matter of doubt or negotiation , but of some certainty , even celebration . |
| 5 | If the 1959 Act had proved itself suitable only for the control of sexual depictions or descriptions where the question was one of manners rather than morals , then the recommendation of the Commission might have been acceptable , since sex between consenting adults in private was no longer a matter for the British criminal law . |
| 6 | No longer a matter of distribution across a norm , of statistics and probability , ‘ normality ’ itself is simply a common-sense , inclusive definition of what it is to be human , with wider boundaries redefined from experience . |
| 7 | Royal taxation of the clergy was no longer a matter of law but of pragmatic politics , no more of meticulous definition but of the balance of pressures . |
| 8 | Second , addition of records to the file is no longer a matter of adding to the end of the file . |
| 9 | My departure was no longer a matter of days . |
| 10 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 11 | They had all reached that stage following a crisis , which can often be more difficult than the crisis itself , when it is no longer a matter of one superhuman push , but husbanding resources for an indeterminately prolonged period of stress . |
| 12 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said that for Saddam Hussein it was no longer a matter of saving face but that he must save his country and the world by avoiding war ; if Iraq were to harm a single Soviet national , his government reserved the right to take appropriate action . |
| 13 | So it 's no longer a matter of course that Victim Support groups get the details they need . |