Example sentences of "answer is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is probably that it would rarely be so . |
| 2 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 3 | My answer is immediately that we submit to our leaders , the bishops , and value highly their pastoral care . |
| 4 | The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face . |
| 5 | The answer is partly because of how Jesus behaved on the cross . |
| 6 | The answer is surely that they occupied a very special place in the lives of many young middle-class men and especially in the lives of those of them who were budding artists , writers , or intellectuals , who in short were Bohemians . |
| 7 | The answer is simply that they enjoyed it . |
| 8 | The classical answer is simply that they are there ; they are taken as given . |
| 9 | Part of the answer is simply that until very recently , most chimpanzee research was done on captive animals , who lead a very boring life , are often kept apart from other members of their family , and have a constant abundance of food . |
| 10 | The answer is just that it simplifies interpretation of the figures by reducing uneven streams of benefits and costs to a single index of NPV ( or IRR ) . |
| 11 | Their answer is roughly as I have outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 12 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 13 | The same sentence is now seen to do different things , and according to what it is doing , the answer is more or less suitable : |
| 14 | The simple answer is more and better . |