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

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31 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 .
32 Marcus , now solemn , replied , ‘ One answer is that I do n't know what happened .
33 Well , the answer is that it can , but that , like other sexually transmitted diseases , this is an extremely rare method of transmission .
34 The answer is that they are replicators .
35 The answer is that we might , because there is a sense in which they must indulge in a kind of competition with each other .
36 One way to express the answer is that it might happen by ‘ chance ’ .
37 The plain answer is that we can not be certain about it .
38 Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas .
39 The answer is that if we find the present state of affairs unsatisfactory , we have an obligation to try to come up with something better .
40 One answer is that historically Christianity has shown precious little compassion for animals anyway .
41 My answer is that these children already have a backlog of uninterpreted experiments .
42 Part of the answer is that the vast majority of service personnel who answer telephones , serve in shops and deal with the great British public are female .
43 The answer is that it is not .
44 Julian 's answer is that when Titius sues for the legacy he can be opposed with an exceptio doli unless he has given a guarantee that he will manumit Stichus .
45 The answer is that nothing actually went wrong .
46 Part of the answer is that there is a lot of fiscal juggling in the R&D accounts , with a great deal of large-scale engineering and demonstration work of the federal government — especially on matters related to energy — having been scuttled by the Reagan administration as inappropriate for the government .
47 The answer is that it can not , so the computer expert within a large organisation is an endangered species .
48 One possible answer is that a quasar produces not just one beam , or one pair of oppositely-directed beams , but multiple beams .
49 The answer is that both provide a medium for solitons .
50 The answer is that it takes , fortunately for us , more than one mutant gene to make a normal cell into a tumour cell .
51 The answer is that these deceptions have to fool all possible predators and while some may be able to tune in to one detail others may have a searching-image for something quite different .
52 The most likely answer is that the Candida lowers the blood sugar , by constantly using up the sugar supplied in food , producing a type of hypoglycaemia ( see p 130 ) .
53 The answer is that he is almost certainly afraid of something .
54 Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had .
55 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 .
56 The answer is that in most tests cats ignore the sweetness factor when making choices .
57 The answer is that occasionally there is a minor genetic error and a male cat develops with the combination XXY .
58 The answer is that , for many of us , the cat has become a living toy rather than a real animal .
59 The only conceivable answer is that there is more to life than molecules ; that behind the sensory level of experience , we are dealing with a complex and dynamic tapestry of Mind energy .
60 The answer is that you can still proceed .
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