Example sentences of "merely a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Barzani says the fall of Saddam Hussein is merely a matter of time . |
| 2 | Yes , something was going on inside her : recently , she was pursued by the idea that her love for Paul was merely a matter of will : merely the will to love him ; merely the will to have a happy marriage . |
| 3 | We also begin to realize that making such a choice is not merely a matter of changing habits , even habits of mind . |
| 4 | It is not merely a matter of the known constituents of food ; fibre , protein , carbohydrates , fats , vitamins , minerals , and trace elements in the correct proportions . |
| 5 | These and other habitualised forms of ‘ race-thinking ’ were further compounded in the fifties by social and economic factors which kept Blacks and Whites largely separate within their own sets of social networks and spaces , ‘ Crossing the line ’ was not merely a matter of breaking the boundaries of colour-based divisions in a figurative sense ; it was also often literally a matter of transgressing geographical boundaries : often with violent consequences . |
| 6 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
| 7 | This pleased his Peripatetic opponents who asserted with Aristotle that sinking or floating was merely a matter of shape . |
| 8 | It is not merely a matter of whether planning permission is required and , if so , whether it is likely to be granted , but also of how long it will take . |
| 9 | This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation . |
| 10 | There is no particular method of structuring government which is logically compelling ; it is merely a matter of some methods being more efficient than others . |
| 11 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 12 | This is not merely a matter of tiresome tolerance according to some airy-fairy principle of political philosophy . |
| 13 | At half speed , guitar tones are mutated into bass frequencies and can become dull and difficult to hear ( the main problem with the Akai U4 ) but when dealing with a digital signal , it is merely a matter of mathematics to ‘ slow ’ a signal down . |
| 14 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 15 | In those early days , that last week of June , it was merely a matter of raising enough money . |
| 16 | A blow against the Republic from the right was now merely a matter of time . |
| 17 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 18 | This is not merely a matter of re-stating what had already been said ; it involves a genuine progress and advance towards a fuller and clearer understanding enabled by the onward movement of history . |
| 19 | It was not merely a matter of European machines or European clothes ( though the adoption of such uncomfortable dress in tropical countries is certainly a testimony to the prestige of European civilization ) . |
| 20 | Is it merely a matter of reproducing party political views and , if so , of which political parties ? |
| 21 | The thoughts ( obsessions ) may be senseless in themselves , or merely a matter of indifference to the subject ; often they are completely silly , and invariably they are the starting-point of a strenuous mental activity , which exhausts the patient and to which he only surrenders himself most unwillingly . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union saw no need to remain in military terms and appears to have thought it was merely a matter of time before communism was extended to the southern half of the peninsula . |
| 23 | This is not merely a matter of Northism , Henry argues . |
| 24 | ( i ) Which of the notations introduced in 2.6.3(ii) is used is merely a matter of personal difference . |
| 25 | Having the ideas is merely a matter of having ideas . |
| 26 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 27 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 28 | I have argued above in terms of a discrepancy between Labour 's electoral success in 1964 and more particularly 1966 , and the failure of the party to hold together a decisive social bloc capable of accomplishing radical change in a socialist , or even a Croslandite , direction ( a failure which was not , however , merely a matter of will ) . |
| 29 | Thus the existence of an alleged defence to a criminal prosecution is merely a matter to be taken into account in the exercise of the court 's discretion when considering whether it is just and convenient that interlocutory relief should be granted ( post , pp. 173D–F , 178H , 179A , 190D–E ) . |
| 30 | Corporate power is not merely a matter of the resources and market share of formally independent entities . |