Example sentences of "answer is that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The interpretation which perhaps makes most sense of people 's answers is that their decisions seem to be based first on a desire to pay off quickly , and second ( in modification of this ) on how high an instalment they can afford — rather than on interest rates or total cost .
2 The limitation of these simple answers is that they suggest that the reader has a relatively , if not completely , passive role .
3 The answer is that no-one can control or even forecast accurately the maximum flow of water that can be expected to surge down the Tay valley and through Perth .
4 The answer is that we politicians exist to enable the public to have its cake and eat it .
5 ‘ I am afraid , Prime Minister , the answer is that we have to be more efficient than our European competitors . ’
6 The short answer is that we can not , and that structures of this kind do not in fact evolve .
7 The answer is that we might , because there is a sense in which they must indulge in a kind of competition with each other .
8 The plain answer is that we can not be certain about it .
9 So then you think ‘ Well , can we do anything together ? ’ and the answer is that we can probably do something .
10 The answer is that we do not discriminate against anyone , even fax-toting sociopaths like Watson Weeks .
11 The answer is that we can not , except in the vaguest of terms .
12 If we now ask how we are able to get any grasp of the explanatory role of class strategy in Poulantzas ' theory , the answer is that we rely on our everyday , voluntarist understanding of it .
13 In both cases the answer is that we will conform when we see it as being in our interests to do so .
14 The answer is that we can , without using intuition , speculation or hearsay concerning Z , prove that Z , C and M are logical consequences of the axioms A1 through to I. Now whilst algebraists do not regard it as their prime duty to reduce all such sets of axioms to a minimum size , it is part of an algebraist 's function to investigate consequences of axioms such as those just referred to .
15 The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true .
16 A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect .
17 The answer is that we are prepared , in circumstances that are not particularly unusual , to allow that someone does in fact have knowledge when that person is so far from certain that he would not claim the knowledge himself .
18 And the answer is that we ca n't . "
19 The answer is that we can gamble on their occurrence and their nature by so arranging matters that we might profit from them .
20 The answer is that we do not intend to meet all that shortfall .
21 In answer is that we are banning smoking because smoking in any form is bad for you .
22 The answer is that we can not know or , rather , that there is no simple solution to this problem .
23 The answer is that we do sell Sodastream , but in selected stores only due to limited demand ; but this is always under review for signs of change .
24 The answer is that they are dissatisfied with themselves .
25 The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built .
26 The answer is that they are replicators .
27 Broadly , if the courts believe the authority would still have granted the consent if they had known that they could not have imposed the condition in question , the permission stands without the offending condition , but if the answer is that they probably would not , then the permission itself falls .
28 The answer is that they all are , because they apply to all financial statements intended to give a true and fair view , so they should be followed by societies .
29 If the answer is that they are idealistic categories generated through consciousness of ideal relations then the idealistic basis of these specific examples of ‘ ideological forms ’ can be understood .
30 The answer is that they can not help themselves .
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