Example sentences of "purely a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view became almost a national orthodoxy and Ludwig August Rochau , who is famous for having invented the word ‘ Realpolitik ’ , once declared that German unity was purely a matter of commerce ( ‘ eine reine Geschaftssache ’ ) . |
| 2 | There is a place for the social PTA ‘ faggots and peas evening ’ or ten pin bowling at the George and Dragon , though it needs to be understood by all that attendance by staff at such social evenings is purely a matter of personal choice and not to be taken as an indicator of loyalty to the school . |
| 3 | The ‘ plot ’ now becomes purely a matter of voice , whereas in such works as Giles Goat-Boy ( 1966 ) , Chimera ( 1972 ) , and in other parts of Lost in the Funhouse Barth draws on ancient mythical patterns to write over . |
| 4 | They are worth bearing in mind as at least a partial explanation of some aspects of credit use , so as to avoid the risk of misinterpreting those aspects as a purely a matter of individual consumer choice . |
| 5 | Then it would be purely a matter of waiting for the assassin 's bullet to strike home , or a carefully planned accident to take place . |
| 6 | To make the presses look even more attractive , I have laminated a flower design on to them , but this is purely a matter of choice and taste . |
| 7 | However , this is purely a matter of experimentation and discovering what best suits your method of working . |
| 8 | It 's purely a matter of personal preference , but as I sat on my bed that day , stroking Dawn , I knew that she was the one . |
| 9 | Is nursing purely a matter of imitating and repeating rote tasks , and therefore unworthy of anything more than the sympathetic application of a set of predetermined rules ? |
| 10 | As that ability was still , in 1880 , much more purely a matter of armies and navies than it was later to become , it is worth while to consider them briefly before turning to the diplomatic story . |
| 11 | Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health . |
| 12 | Once again , it is purely a matter of heuristic fruitfulness . |
| 13 | Choosing centralization , decentralization or deconcentration of government powers is , however , never purely a matter of managerial wisdom , but also a useful political strategy for enhancing the autonomy of executive elites . |
| 14 | The lower or uncertain status of general degrees is therefore not purely a matter of breadth of content ; indeed , some relatively broad courses — classics , PPE ( philosophy , politics and economics ) at Oxford and the Cambridge Natural Science Tripos — have high status in the system . |
| 15 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 16 | Why these two methods of accounting are controlled so differently is a complex matter , but a factual difference is that in the context of companies depreciation is purely a matter of accounting , whereas for local authorities it is a matter of accounting and finance . |
| 17 | Locked together now , welded , this was purely a matter of power and its absence , history 's eternal lesson of the powerful absorbing the powerless , as first her lack of resistance and then her wild response empowered Luke — to take , to give , to plunder or to reward at his pleasure . |
| 18 | Purely a matter of personal choice . |
| 19 | In ordinary language , this node expresses the situation in which readers judge their own satisfaction as being solely dependent on their own processing efforts ; and they judge the author 's satisfaction as being purely a matter of the authorial effort of writing . |
| 20 | Or is there an area which you would get into on the question of whether how hard we should struggle before we er , do that sort of thing , or whether it 's purely a matter for for the County Council |
| 21 | eh , its a free country and you should be able to choose what you want to do yourself er , if something is damaging to your health then I would agree , yes , smoking I do n't agree with smoking but if people want to smoke that 's entirely up to them , they know the risks , I would n't smoke , I know the risks but vegetarianism is purely a matter of choice and there 's no peop people that harp on about you should n't eat meat , get on my nerves |