Example sentences of "not always [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the classroom it is not always easy to translate the high tech knowledge down to a child 's level . |
| 2 | It is not always easy to describe a technique , even when it is really easy to do . |
| 3 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 4 | There are dozens of ways you can fire the shutter , which is pressure sensitive to the finger in normal application ; but it is not always easy to arrange a mechanical device to operate at distance . |
| 5 | It was not always easy to pick an appropriate sound effect . |
| 6 | Possibly the main problem is that the Keynesian model is only short-term and in the short-run , it is not always easy to predict the effects of policy changes , and the management of the economy , therefore , may become very erratic . |
| 7 | The drafting of satisfactory consultancy provisions is not without difficulty : it is not always easy to predict an individual 's suitability for a consultancy until his normal retirement date is near , and younger partners may press for some overriding veto . |
| 8 | It is not always easy to spot the fact that the spread increases as the level increases . |
| 9 | And it 's not always easy to respect the author of The Maximus Poems , marred as they are on nearly every page by solecisms and gaucheries , by arbitrary coarseness in diction , punctuation , syntax , lineation . |
| 10 | It is not always easy to identify the ratio decidendi of a given case . |
| 11 | It 's not always easy to get a compatible mixture of fish and plants which are geographically sound . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not always easy to get the jokes . |
| 13 | The problem with value measurements is that they necessarily have a price and quantity component and it is not always easy to separate the two . |
| 14 | Similarly , it is not always easy to establish the viewing rectangle . |
| 15 | In addition , most systems use search strategies to eliminate some partial hypotheses from consideration , and it is not always easy to determine the relative importance of the various components of these strategies . |
| 16 | Though earlier I criticised Dale Spender for confusing two different things , in fact it is not always easy to make a clear-cut distinction between sexism in language and sexism projected on to language by systems of linguistic analysis . |
| 17 | You 've still got to get good experienced people in their fifties and er whilst a lot of people have experience or a lot of experience er from their their previous working life it 's not always easy to make the jump into |
| 18 | When Lewis himself was speaking , it was not always easy to find a tame atheist who was prepared to come along and be mauled in public debate ; for on these occasions he reverted to type and became again the P'daytabird prosecuting an unlikely prisoner in the Belfast police courts . |
| 19 | It 's not always easy to find a compatible crew , so on some dates couples or singles ( not threes , it 's unfair on the odd one out ) may book ‘ Share-a-Yacht ’ . |
| 20 | It is not always easy to find the old , late nineteenth — or early twentieth-century Biarritz amongst the new . |
| 21 | It is not always easy to accept the children of your child 's marriage partner , especially if their existence may mean that you are unlikely to have grandchildren of your own . |
| 22 | It is not always easy to ascertain the source of a particular item of income . |
| 23 | With the operation of ‘ right-to-work ’ laws , it is not always appropriate to model the trade union as if a closed shop operates . |
| 24 | As the brochure on the procedure in these cases explains it is not always possible to conclude a claim as quickly as you or I would like . |
| 25 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 26 | The answer , of course , is to drill a hole , but it is not always possible to find a drill to suit the nails you are using . |
| 27 | It is not always possible to find a suitable theta-solvent for a polymer and methods have been developed which allow unperturbed dimensions to be estimated in non-ideal ( good ) solvents . |
| 28 | Thereafter they practised together , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of the father from that of the son . |
| 29 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 30 | It is not always possible to deliver a module just at the time a trainee needs it for the purposes of SVQ assessment . |