Example sentences of "can not easily [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , there are important differences between landscape and wildlife , in terms of way their qualities can be measured , perceived and protected , which suggest they can not easily be treated as one and the same . |
| 2 | The advantage of telling the story to the group is that a group of sufferers from the same disease can not easily be fooled , nor can they be harshly judgemental . |
| 3 | Categorising data can not easily be standardised . |
| 4 | This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population . |
| 5 | Secondly , an individual post-hole can not easily be assigned to any particular building phase , since any datable artefact found within it could either pre-date or post-date the structure for which the hole was dug . |
| 6 | Although investment plans may be curtailed by high interest rates , current borrowing by many firms can not easily be curtailed . |
| 7 | However , attributes like those listed above clearly can not easily be manipulated , a particular problem in Nordberg 's view when an ‘ insider ’ is used as fieldworker : |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the differences in prevalence of p53 mutation and 17p and 18q deletions between premalignant adenomas and adenocarcinomas is striking , and can not easily be dismissed . |
| 9 | The problem is sufficiently acute that its political implications can not easily be ignored . |
| 10 | Although they concluded ( Burton , Kates and White , 1978 , p. 221 ) that an increase in disaster may continue in the decade of the 1980s and that reduction of disaster potential can not easily be achieved , although loss of life will be reduced substantially , loss of property is most likely to occur in rapidly developing societies and overall ( Burton , Kates and White , 1978 , p. 223 ) : |
| 11 | For similar reasons , small untwinned feldspar grains and quartz grains can not easily be distinguished . |
| 12 | The egg is distinctly oval , with a smooth shell ( Fig. 54 ) , and can not easily be distinguished from that of the other common poultry ascaridoid . |
| 13 | Yet in a liberal democracy , such a declaration can not easily be made ; indeed the opposite must be proclaimed . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is not unexpected that simple correlation can not easily be made between different parts of the world in view of the advent of the theory of plate tectonics because of the amount of movement associated with the displacement of plates . |
| 15 | As electronic records represent a new resource their location and the descriptions of the data they contain can not easily be made accessible . |
| 16 | As can be seen from the above two examples , the process of discriminating between words can not easily be separated from the process of integrating lexical access with other levels . |
| 17 | What has also emerged , however , is that private sector attitudes and techniques can not easily be transplanted into central administration . |
| 18 | Another problem arose in 1916 , which can not easily be explained without reference to the proposed ‘ Home Rule ’ in Ireland that had developed under the government of Asquith which introduced the Home Rule Act 1914 . |
| 19 | Even among the industrial economies there are vast differences which can not easily be explained . |
| 20 | How such prosperity came about , however , can not easily be explained . |
| 21 | In our study bone densities were not uniformly low at all sites , and fractures can not easily be explained by the use of steroids or disease activity . |
| 22 | What has come to his rescue is an altogether subtler kind of ideas and information-limitation whose effectiveness is , if anything , enhanced by the fact that it can not easily be explained in terms of conspiracies and blunt propaganda . |
| 23 | The discrepancy with this latter study and our present results can not easily be explained . |
| 24 | The finding of enhanced fasting gastrin concentrations in H pylori positive subjects and in duodenal ulcer disease can not easily be explained . |
| 25 | six Beiderbecke and Eubie Blake , Billy Mayerl and Nat Gonella can not easily be assimilated , or at least reduced , merely to a preformed role in the machinery of a dominant system of musical craftsmanship , nor can Bob Dylan and John Lennon , Chuck Berry , Bob Marley and Merle Haggard , let alone Joe Strummer or John Lydon ; though , equally obviously , they all , in another sense , come to be umbilically attached to that system . |
| 26 | This can take the form of assessing the situation or bringing into consideration other factors ( political climate , human values , competitors ' stance ) which can not easily be quantified . |
| 27 | But language , because of its complexity and its technicalities can not easily be revealed to a wide audience . |
| 28 | That claim has not been borne out for today 's designs , but such contracts can not easily be broken . |
| 29 | Although most departments have drawn up plans , many areas of departmental work can not easily be broken down into discrete cost centres . |
| 30 | There is no restriction in the definition to persons who can not easily be traced . |