Example sentences of "[not/n't] so readily " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scourge had abated , but psychological damage had been done , which was not so readily repaired . |
| 2 | But these truths were by no means self-evident at the time of their first suggestion , when they were not so readily acceptable . |
| 3 | A 36″ × 18″ × 18″ or 36″ × 24″ × 24″ would be adequate but these are not so readily available . |
| 4 | The same can not so readily be said of a man , who does not necessarily imprint his surroundings with personal feelings . |
| 5 | The second , and more positive , factor which may explain the fact that accountability for tragic death is not so readily attributed to the professionals concerns the status of old people as autonomous adults . |
| 6 | Idle to say that such conformity is merely British : if it were so , the world would not so readily understand British fiction or buy it ; and buy it does , whether as novels , films or TV serials . |
| 7 | The priorities are assessed on the basis of evidence and unfortunately evidence about people is not so readily quantified as evidence about financial and physical resources . |
| 8 | What is not so readily understood is that many of these people are paid extensively on commission . |
| 9 | But the realities of decision making , as I have tried to show earlier in this chapter , are not so readily pinned down . |
| 10 | The quality press and the Daily Mail do not so readily create nicknames , although they are willing to use the existing currency — ‘ Yesterday , detectives were hunting a man locals call ‘ the stranger from Devil 's Wood ’ ' ( Daily Mail ) . |
| 11 | Rules and customs can be changed overnight — and will be if they fail to meet needs — but motives , especially unconscious motives , are not so readily changeable . |
| 12 | It might be possible physically to suppress the signs of its advance in the universities , but there were other indicators which could not so readily be ignored or concealed . |
| 13 | In practice , clients of a firm of solicitors ( if not so readily creditors ) will usually be informed of a change in the membership quite speedily . |
| 14 | Yeah you see , bric-à-brac is n't so readily available now there are car boot sales so we have to resort to other means like the sponsored dog walk and er this type of thing . |