Example sentences of "not [adv] easy " 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 not altogether easy to understand his methods of discharging business .
4 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 .
5 On the telephone it is easier ( though not necessarily easy ) to be firm , to say what you might not have the courage to say face-to-face .
6 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 .
7 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 ’ .
8 That sort of system is not so easy for actors looking for their first job but easier when you are well known .
9 But it was not so easy to brush him off afterwards .
10 But it is not so easy to find good examples of his suggestion that batterie can lend wit except in the Blue Boy 's révoltades in Ashton 's Les Patineurs .
11 However , the solution to be applied to overhead power lines , short of conversion to underground cable or high voltage DC transmission , is not so easy considering the very substantial voltages and currents involved and the heavy capital investment in existing structures .
12 In 1922 it was not so easy to predict crop yields as it is today .
13 It is not so easy to destroy a waterway .
14 I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi .
15 Airikkala 's Irish co-driver Ronan McNamee knows the forests equally well , but points out that trying to read the roads from a map is not so easy , particularly at speeds of up to 130mph .
16 But it is not so easy if you have a condition which is not susceptible to diagnosis and has no clear-cut signs or symptoms .
17 Gazzer took a step backwards , disturbed to find that he felt threatened : she was not so easy to manage after all .
18 Not so easy .
19 It was not so easy for the Scottish Protestants .
20 ‘ It is not so easy to turn your whole life inside out , ’ says Sergei , and moves in his knight to mate my pepperpot king .
21 It was not so easy to find the cemetery where Mrs Zamzam 's father was buried .
22 But it was not so easy to be dismissive of the Incas .
23 Poor crops and stock , however , may stem from land of low potential or from bad management ( or both ) : it is not so easy to differentiate .
24 With the use of oil as a transport fuel for cars , things are not so easy .
25 It is not so easy to change the playmates when they are brothers and/or sisters ( siblings ) , and many parents tell me of their concern about the seemingly incessant feuding that goes on among brothers and sisters .
26 The argument on moral grounds is not so easy .
27 This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating .
28 This would be easy enough to notice but not so easy to interpret .
29 But it 's not so easy .
30 Not so easy .
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