Example sentences of "the answer [is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 2 | The answer is that it does not . |
| 3 | The answer is that it depends whether or not you think that the history of the earth is divisible into units by means of natural events ( or revolutions ) detectable by man . |
| 4 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
| 5 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 6 | The answer is that it takes , fortunately for us , more than one mutant gene to make a normal cell into a tumour cell . |
| 7 | The answer is that it provides us with a way to understand evolution as a gradual , cumulative process . |
| 8 | Mair said calmly : The answer is that it has n't ; the publicity was premature . |
| 9 | The answer is that it fails by flowing in shear , just like Plasticine or soft metals . |
| 10 | The answer is that it comes mid-way between them — which tells us nothing about which of the other two came first . |
| 11 | The answer is that it included particularly rich concentrations of royal resources : Dorestad with its emporium and mint ; major churches , including the metropolitan sees of Rheims and Sens , and rich abbeys like St-Denis and St-Wandrille , on whose endowments the Carolingians had laid their hands ; a number of royal palaces , and many royal estates and forests , both Carolingian patrimonial lands around the lower Meuse and old Merovingian ones in the Seine basin , especially along the Oise ; and last but not least , good communications , including a surviving Roman road-network . |