Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First appointments , on occasion , could be a matter of considerable urgency to a freeholder or a burgh magistrate , and that kind of favour was not particularly difficult to arrange , if a politician had taken the precaution of developing connections with influential navy men . |
| 2 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 3 | A close friend of Elaine Blond , who was later to found the Blond McIndoe Centre for Medical Research , it was not too difficult to persuade McIndoe to help where the removal of a disfigurement , usually facial , could boost a patient 's confidence . |
| 4 | It was not so difficult to leave Roundhay . |
| 5 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |