Example sentences of "[vb mod] not easily be [vb pp] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This staggering figure could not easily be explained away . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is more probable that in most cases , the relative contributions to the final research of student and supervisor could not easily be separated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Unlike coffee , tea could not easily be grown profitably on smallholdings . |
| 16 | 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 ) : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was on several different levels and had large rooms which could not easily be split . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It seems reasonable to assume , for instance , that he was — at least in part — influenced by the calculations of his own defence establishment from 1943 ( calculations which could not easily be challenged until the United States acquired nuclear weapons ) to the effect that the defeat of Germany must make the USSR the dominant military power in Europe . |
| 23 | Sagramoso City itself was heavily guarded by skyward laser batteries , and these could not easily be neutralised . |
| 24 | Northcliffe , Beaverbrook , Kemsley or Thomson , on the other hand , could not easily be jettisoned : their press empires were more substantially theirs . |
| 25 | A fleet of 60 French and Spanish ships could not easily be concentrated , and it would have to fight in the Channel against an English fleet of 45 of the line … |
| 26 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |
| 27 | Yet this wave of social legislation could not easily be reconciled with the tenets of classical liberalism . |
| 28 | In any case the priorities of his government could not easily be reconciled in the context of British policy-making , let alone in conjunction with the United States . |
| 29 | Once the vegetational cover of the hard schists was destroyed they could not easily be restored to cultivation . |
| 30 | Nixon , one of the fiercest anti-Communists and " cold warriors " of the 1940s and 1950s , knew that he could not easily be accused of being " soft " on communism when he tried to lessen tension with Russia and with Communist China . |