Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] easily be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The problems listed above — and others — are real ones and may not easily be overcome .
2 The golfer 's name may not easily be discovered , but it may be easy to determine the landowner 's identity .
3 The event suggests the Albanian Communist regime might most easily be toppled by dropping tons of trendy magazines on Tirana .
4 In the presence of perfect capital markets and suitably inclusive definitions , wealth would simply be the discounted present value of all future income streams ( i.e. including those that might not easily be measured in money terms ) .
5 ( b ) the fact that reconciliations might too easily be fabricated by a solicitor contemplating fraud .
6 The aim is to produce more economists who can handle practical affairs seriously ; more generalists--aware in a rough way of what non economists think--by making it easier to concentrate on particular problems , so that their views may more easily be sought and comprehended ; and more theorists who plan their work in an economic manner .
7 In this case , the figure may be adjusted downwards so that it may more easily be achieved , especially when commission payments are based on the full achievement of sales target or quota .
8 Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries .
9 It was in France , however , that during the eighteenth century a well-organised foreign ministry of a recognisably modern sort could most easily be found .
10 Nigel and I were , above all , struck by the sympathetic treatment of an area which could so easily be spoiled .
11 Of what use was the truth , she asked herself bitterly , when it could so easily be turned against her ?
12 However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand .
13 This staggering figure could not easily be explained away .
14 Alex , from his position in the wings , was not concentrating as much and could not easily be kept informed about when they were stopping and starting , going back to rehearse lighting changes and so on , with the result that he was often feeding the wrong words .
15 If anything could not easily be covered through this thematic approach , it was covered discretely , through a story , or watching a video , or in a separate activity .
16 It is clear that such gaps restrict methods of handling data ( see chapters 5 and 6 ) ; for example data for age- and sex-groups could not easily be aggregated .
17 Although these theories could not easily be deployed in the ‘ real ’ world , they did serve a valuable purpose as condensations of patterns of thought about the media .
18 It is more probable that in most cases , the relative contributions to the final research of student and supervisor could not easily be separated .
19 Marx believed that by the mid-nineteenth century workers in England could not easily be exploited any more than they were already : for example , the working day could not be any further extended .
20 It thus came about that , during the process of a boy 's adjustment to public school , two very powerful and not very compatible needs — the need for power and the need for love — were grossly stimulated , in an environment where their satisfaction could not easily be assigned to the usual separate compartments of life .
21 The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied .
22 For instance , if support staff can be recruited locally in the new site , firms may restrict eligibility for relocation assistance to senior employees or to those with specialist skills who could not easily be replaced .
23 This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners .
24 Unlike coffee , tea could not easily be grown profitably on smallholdings .
25 However , a colleague looking at these OSUs in relation to their cultural impact , saw there were many aspects of a qualitative nature which could not easily be expressed in fiscal terms ( Adams 1988 : 11 ) :
26 The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives .
27 It was on several different levels and had large rooms which could not easily be split .
28 I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms .
29 A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control .
30 The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement .
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