Example sentences of "the short answer [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short answer is that it connoted a radical alternative to the state , an image of statelessness which was a partial , nostalgic and polemical distillation of history . |
| 2 | The short answer is that the image covered the intersection of official rhetoric and popular nostalgia . |
| 3 | The short answer is that we can not , and that structures of this kind do not in fact evolve . |
| 4 | The short answer is that the French government demanded guarantees from the Prussian government that the candidature would not be renewed in any circumstances , implying that since the government in Berlin was officially involved , only an official denial would satisfactorily end the affair . |
| 5 | The short answer is that people 's motives for using media do not seem to have changed much from 1945 to 1990 — whether to combat loneliness , find out what was going on or just relax . |
| 6 | The short answer is that turning a PC into a network-ready machine is simple . |
| 7 | The short answer is that it 's going to be tough on your new family . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The short answer is that in many countries the fact that there is a Constitution does make a difference . |
| 10 | The short answer is that all the other trees are tall , so no one tree can afford not to be . |
| 11 | The short answer is that the elimination of barriers to trade and the boost to competition will have an economic pay-off . |
| 12 | The short answer is that several of the routes have been identified in fluid transition experiments , but that the significance of this for transition in general is currently very uncertain . |
| 13 | well I think erm , the short answer is that I ca n't erm , erm provide the parties with any time on Friday , er , the case , this case has already some what over run it 's estimate , which has put pressure on the commercial judge as it is , there 's gon na be even more pressure on Friday , erm , I 'm afraid to say the , that the complexities of this case as such that I can not erm begin to think that even if we started at ten we would erm , necessarily finish within the hour , I have difficulties starting at ten o'clock anyway , I think we 'll simply have to erm , put the matter off , off until Monday morning I , Mr ca n't attend I really do n't think that I can erm put it off er any longer than that |
| 14 | The short answer is that there are too many imponderables for a neatly overall prediction , and only time will tell how far into the future a given photograph or negative is likely to survive . |