How To Use Matter of course In A Sentence
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The client should identify those objectives as a matter of course in the relevant engagement documentation.
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You take them as a matter of course if you are outward bound, but on your call homeward (if you make it) you will look on them as a blessing and a curiosity.
Travels in West Africa
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I seem to recall that 30 years ago, when christening was a rite carried out almost unquestioningly, godparents were often appointed as a matter of course or protocol, and the role meant little more than remembering birthdays.
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Action against public disorder should be among the basic policies of any government, taken as a matter of course rather than celebrated as the result of blue-sky thinking.
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And it was indeed a position, rather than a point of view -- a vehement, tub-thumping position -- that Hitchens always took as a matter of course, whatever the subject in hand.
Roger Housden: Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?
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In cases where enforcement of an undertaking by an order for its performance is still possible and practicable, such an order will no doubt be made more or less as a matter of course.
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As a matter of course she hemstitched the best table linen and bed linen they could afford.
CHAPTER IV
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I mentioned the engagement as a mere matter of course to somebody, and though I mentioned it confidentially, it started this slander about Malcolm Cromarty and Cicely Farmond conspiring to murder -- to _murder_, Lilian!
Simon
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We will contact your former employer as a matter of course.
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You'd been checking yourself every day, as a matter of course, as a precaution.
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Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.
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He opened up with three consecutive birdies as if a third big win in a month was a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely the reason that corpses take longer to decompose is simply that mortuaries are now air conditioned as a matter of course.
Discourse.net: Drinking Formaldehyde
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Most insurance companies, Rosemary says, make sure that as a matter of course they reinsure their risks.
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Originally the word scribe meant "scrivener"; but rapidly it was accepted as a matter of course that the scribe who copies the Law knows the Law best, and is its most qualified expounder: accordingly the word came to mean more than it implies etymologically.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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None of them can fairly be described as doctrinaire: by that time an artist with a pronounced taste for abstractions betook himself to Cubism almost as a matter of course.
Since Cézanne
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Poems (after Poe, as a matter of course), political diatribes in Johnsonese periods in _De Bow's
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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There was a time when a decorator painted walls in small rooms white as a matter of course, believing that white would make a room appear larger.
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The altered character of the horn is accounted for by the inflammatory changes in the sensitive laminæ and the papillæ of the keratogenous membrane generally, for it follows as a matter of course that these tissues, themselves in a diseased condition, must naturally produce a horn of a greatly altered and inferior quality.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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There is now the general trend to accept other coatings, such as lubricious coatings, as a matter of course.
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I check my in - tray every morning as a matter of course.
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They had spoken of it casually as something that would, as a matter of course, take place in the indefinite future, as, for instance, his promotion in the navy, in which he was now a padwar; or the set functions of the court of her grandfather, Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium; or Death.
The Chessmen of Mars
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As such, the only folks who need to use the handbrake while their vehicle is moving as a matter of course are rally drivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry?
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And there was one refinement in the rude chalet not always present in regions far less removed from the centres of civilization: besides the cloth -- so coarse as to be a curiosity -- which the woman laid for us over an end of the unscoured table, she put at each of our places, as a matter of course, a fresh napkin of the same rude stuff.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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If police are carrying arms as a matter of course then doesn't it encourage criminals to carry them?
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He said the painting was an unframed watercolour on paper, and that these kind of fragile paintings were kept in boxes, as a matter of course, by galleries and museums.
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He was fluent in the language, read German books as a matter of course, and had lived there and written about its politics.
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Global Volunteers does not, as a matter of course, send community hosts advance checks for supplies.
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As a matter of course, one did not turn down assignments: one responded without careerist calculation to the needs of the service.
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Unfortunately, the mass media generally seems inclined to misgender trans people as a matter of course and for the flimsiest of reasons – “to go along with AP style on this would mean ignoring the facts of a murder case in favor of political correctness “???
Human rights violations in U.S. jail
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We will contact your former employer as a matter of course.
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As a matter of course, we left the servant problem to work out its own solution, and, also as a matter of course, the Sanguine Scot was full of plans for the future but particularly bubbling over with the news that he had secured Tam-o'-Shanter for a partner in the brumby venture.
We of the Never-Never
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Those that make motor cars and other goods apply these approaches as a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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The President properly shouldn't attack members of one of the coordinate branches as a matter of course, and to a lesser degree the same holds in reverse.
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For a length of years, the office, as mentioned in the text, was held in commendam with that of the executioner; for when this odious but necessary officer of justice received his appointment, he petitioned the Court of Justiciary to be received as their Dempster, which was granted as a matter of course.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Those that make motor cars and other goods apply these approaches as a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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There will already be a couple of chaps in a patrol car down a side street as a matter of course.
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The lecturer took it as a matter of course, and replied, "Oh, yes, you will find the whole atmosphere of Boston exhilarant with intellectual vitality.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
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Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry?
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Finding a bird and Making a difficult retrieve is what the best dogs do as a matter of course, and it occurs as a matter of course and is unworthy of comment.
Five Good Small-Breed Bird Hunting Dogs
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This was a flowered tapestry satchel about the size of the handbags many women carried as a matter of course.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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You can, as a matter of course, help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker.
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One of the smaller plates from the set, a four-foot-long cutaway drawing in pleasantly soft sepia tones, hangs over my couch, and has followed me from Notre Dame to New York and finally to Milwaukee, a reminder that I must measure myself — success and failure alike — not against my peers, but against the great cathedral-builders of old, who had to think big as a matter of course.
Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things
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He opened up with three consecutive birdies as if a third big win in a month was a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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In every village, in every nook and cranny, youths were taught the rudiments of the game by elders as a matter of course.
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_even_ number of parts by lines drawn _bendwise_, is “_bendy_,” the number of the divisions to be specified: as a matter of course, a field thus “bendy” becomes a “varied field,” in which all the divisions lie in the same plane: thus, No. 116, for DE MONTFORD (H. 3 and E. 2) -- _Bendy of ten or and az.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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As it is, it is difficult to understand why direct talks between all elected representatives and their respective parties are not already taking place as a matter of course.
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His energy and his stamina mean that he gets into positions as a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whisky, brandy and beer were always on the sideboard, and in my absence the bearer or khansamah was expected, as a matter of course, to offer refreshments to all comers.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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Training people to provide quality services costs, but that should be going on in any business as a matter of course.
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She is beautiful, by every report that we have heard of her, even as an angel; but reflect that she is an heiress -- the inheritress of immense property -- and that, as a matter of course, the temptations are a thousand to one against him.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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I suppose the Commissioner will, as a matter of course, hold you for trial at the Circuit Court, _whatever your rights may be in the matter_.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
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If the polarity of the area signal is reversed, the region which can be chromakeyed is reversed as a matter of course.
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Many precautions by the white-gods had Jerry been aware of, and so, sensing it almost in intangible ways, as a matter of course he accepted this barbed-wire fence on the floating world as a mark of the persistence of danger.
CHAPTER III
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I lock the door as a matter of course.
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I found a feeling of sincere companionship ... a companionship that without ostentation and as a matter of course, shared the last cent the last meal ... when every cent _was_ the last cent, every meal the _last_ meal ... the rest depending on luck and
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
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Here we are in an inactive country, and we don't play physical games as a matter of course, and so our exposure to physical hurt is minimal, and very shocking therefore when it comes.
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The point is that what you are used to is normal, and dealing with it is a matter of course.
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As a matter of course, corporations tried to evade laws and regulations if they stood in the way of profits.
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Mark had paused as a matter of course by the lychgate, supposing that with a squire like Sir Charles the inside should be of unusual interest.
The Altar Steps
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The increasingly anachronistic tax exemption given to interest payments means that many companies borrow as a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternatively it might be shown that the experiments - and I know it is not a statute but it is a plural - were of a routine character which the uninventive worker in the field would try as a matter of course.
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I don't use their names, as a matter of course, but, too, "shoptalk" or a good story over dinner does not a public record make.
Fear of bloggers.
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. Helen Rowland
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It isn't going to be long before every electronic device that we own is going to automatically connect to global communications networks as a matter of course.
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He soon got over his surprise at being met by a Scotland Yard man, and took me as a matter of course.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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As a matter of course, he was elected monitor.
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It was a triumph of organisation and entertainment, a crowd-pleaser from start to finish and an event that will ensure the golfing status of Fota Island as a matter of course.
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I check my in - tray every morning as a matter of course.
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They contend that the results are so emphatic that co-trimoxazole should be administered as a matter of course to all children in Africa who have been diagnosed with HIV.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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And as the abundant historical record shows, wolves responded to capture (they were regularly caught in traps or in their dens) not by lashing out but by submission; human beings as a matter of course ignored "a frightened creature's obvious pleas for mercy" and proceeded to torture.
Wolves, Actors, Jihadis
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He lied about almost everything, just as a matter of course.
SUMMER OF FEAR
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I'm up on current affairs as a matter of course, but it's those little details that trip you up - the president's name, the exact pronunciation of ‘Britain,’ that sort of thing.
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Bessey disarmingly recounts how: I was lecturing on the properties of the plants constituting the Solanaceae, and, as a matter of course, said that the berries of the black nightshade were poisonous.
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It is likely that many staff are already helping disabled customers as a matter of course.
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They know that muggers, burglars and all the other undesirables they want released as a matter of course are going to vote for anyone offering them a get out of jail free card.
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During my formative years in the Language Writing scene in the 70s, it was a matter of course to attack the aura-driven, faux-charismatic, unambitious poetry coming out of writing workshops.
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As a matter of course, business owners protect themselves against health problems and loss of income.
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When any new manager arrives, it's a matter of course they bring in the odd new face to liven things up a little.
The Sun
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In the past the members of strict religious orders took the discipline as a matter of course.
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As a matter of course he also strays farther afield, both geographically (down the Mississippi to New Orleans) and to embrace road and rail cartage.
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You do have to understand that Arpaio/Thomas use the tactic called “dirtying” as a matter of course.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Could This Be The Tipping Point for Arpaio and Thomas?
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Archbishop Montalvo wrote back to VOTO's steering committee that, ‘as a matter of course, the nunciature takes into judicious account all the information it receives from any quarter in the matter of the provision of a diocese.’
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All such cases had been opened and carefully resealed as a matter of course since his clandestine activities had become known.
LOHENGRIN
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Lower rents, rent-free periods and tenant-friendly break clauses are now inserted in deals as a matter of course.
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The coat itself is what is called a jerkin; and as the buttons behind are half-way up his back, it is a matter of course that the tail, which runs rapidly to a point, is ludicrously scanty.
Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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Forty years ago, academic time-servers could expect to move up through the ranks as a matter of course.
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It was then considered almost a matter of course that a shopkeeper must be offered less than he asked; and going from shop to shop to "cheapen" the articles they wanted was a common amusement of ladies.
The King's Daughters
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Those that make motor cars and other goods apply these approaches as a matter of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Crown should as a matter of course take DNA samples from all convicted felons and put it in a searchable computer database. the crime a fellon is convicted of may not be the only crime he or she has committed.
Top stories from Times Online
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This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.
Chapter 31
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Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.
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Inasmuch as the godhead is the symbol and embodiment of the highest, as a matter of course it is endowed with the sex of the rulers -- or at any rate the deities belonging to the dominant sex take the first rank.
The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
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We will contact your former employer as a matter of course.
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a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course
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When any new manager arrives, it's a matter of course they bring in the odd new face to liven things up a little.
The Sun
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Why this was I couldn't explain, since we all flashed each other as a matter of course.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
