Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 2 | It is not always easy to identify when a person is an employee and when he is not ; various tests have evolved and some concern questions of " control " . |
| 3 | It is not always easy to know why an event or action fires the imagination of the public and is remembered lo–g afterwards , whilst others , seemingly of equal importance or curiosity are soon forgotten . |
| 4 | For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available . |
| 5 | As we have said , it 's not always possible to pin down the exact reason for Cystitis attacks , or why some women suffer so repeatedly . |
| 6 | However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts . |
| 7 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |
| 8 | So whilst you might think it 's a nice idea to make a change to some procedure or work instruction or whatever you want to call it , there may be the odd occasion on which it 's not actually possible to bring in a change because we 're faced with still er meeting the requirements in the base er I S O Nine Thousand document . |
| 9 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | In writing , given the existence of punctuation and capitalisation , it is usually not too difficult to see where a sentence comes to an end . |
| 11 | Nice and easy for those of you just beginning to try your hand at intarsia and it 's not too difficult to work out the chart for yourself with the many aids available . |
| 12 | Cos I thought it was n't very fair to lend out the children 's stuff |