as a matter of form
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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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"I signed that letter purely as a matter of form," protested M. Dalimier.
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U. S. investors in Cuba visit Minister Harry Frank Guggenheim first as a matter of form.
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It is expected that Premier Arias, as a matter of form, will submit his own and his Cabinet members' resignations.
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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
