as a matter of form
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"Pardon me," said President Patterson, "but. just as a matter of form, what security can you give me?"
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But there is another kind of news — a narrative of events which have often occurred but must be recorded as a matter of form, with dignity and brevity.
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Many vicars are depressed by the number of nonchurchgoing laymen who want to see their child christened merely as a matter of form.
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U. S. investors in Cuba visit Minister Harry Frank Guggenheim first as a matter of form.
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She still rang the house telephone to the morning-room every day and submitted the menu to me as a matter of form, but that was the limit of our intercourse.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
