Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] easy [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not altogether easy to explain this post-classical development . |
| 2 | Evans J. held that a request by the foreign court for a particular mode of examination to be followed should be complied with , in the exercise of discretion , unless what was asked for was so contrary to English established procedures that it should not be permitted ; although in the spirit of the Convention , this ruling is not altogether easy to reconcile with the language of the Act . |
| 3 | It is , for instance , not altogether easy to write about preferential voting without conveying however unintentionally the impression that all the preferences which are expressed will be effective . |
| 4 | It is not altogether easy to understand his methods of discharging business . |
| 5 | The volumes are not especially easy to use , however , and more detailed and accessible information is contained in two works published in 1950 and 1967 by the Society of Antiquaries of London : A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms by Sir Anthony Wagner , and Rolls of Arms — Henry III edited by T.D . |
| 6 | But it 's not so easy to persuade people to do what you want — not when they 're pillars of society ! ’ |
| 7 | Gazzer took a step backwards , disturbed to find that he felt threatened : she was not so easy to manage after all . |
| 8 | Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway . |
| 9 | But it was not so easy to brush him off afterwards . |
| 10 | A chap may think he 's in control of himself but if he 's really attracted to a girl , it 's not so easy to stop at … well , just kissing . ’ |
| 11 | In 1922 it was not so easy to predict crop yields as it is today . |
| 12 | ‘ In a changing environment , where people have to work for a living , it is not so easy to give all your spare time to running golf . ’ |
| 13 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 14 | Now it is not so easy to voice those arguments . |
| 15 | It was easy to say , but not so easy to do . |
| 16 | Once she had believed she could control these feelings , but in reality that was proving not so easy to do . |
| 17 | All very easy to say , but human nature being what it was , and her own curiosity playing a very large part of it , not so easy to do . |
| 18 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 19 | The second is not so easy to explain away , for it implied a fundamental incomprehension of the financial industry , many of whose 200,000 employees are Labour voters in marginal Edinburgh seats . |
| 20 | In many cases the notion of verb is not so easy to deal with in sign language . |
| 21 | The tough leathery top surface of a mature leaf is not so easy to penetrate as the softer epidermis of the underside , which is why mildew in particular can often be found by turning over leaves that are glossy and apparently quite healthy , even protected by fungicidal deposit , on the top . |
| 22 | Other cases of blend dare are not so easy to categorize . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not so easy to turn your whole life inside out , ’ says Sergei , and moves in his knight to mate my pepperpot king . |
| 24 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 25 | It is not so easy to destroy a waterway . |
| 26 | But the memory of September 12 , 1986 is not so easy to rub out . |
| 27 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 28 | In reality , however , it is not so easy to separate the two . |
| 29 | While gonadal material can easily be obtained from mice , testicular samples for the study of human meiosis are not so easy to come by . |
| 30 | It 's not so easy to come by these days though . |