Example sentences of "not easy " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of an international market is not easy to be precise about , though the appearance of work in a Biennale or an art fair can be impressive in itself . |
| 2 | It is not easy to know how far Kafka 's fictions can be thought to answer descriptively to the historical realities of his time , let alone to those which his fictions are often thought to have predicted . |
| 3 | And it is not easy to know how far Kapuscinski 's book is a book about a bygone Ethiopia . |
| 4 | The wrecker explains that , one way or another , ‘ it 's not easy to pull down monuments ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Brown ’ and ‘ black ’ are not easy to tell apart because they are both a reddish brown colour and similar in size . |
| 6 | It was not easy for a spirited young woman like Peggy to be the wife of a country vicar . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're not easy things to carry , after all . ’ |
| 8 | We have alkaline soil , and so the growing of camellias , rhododendrons , pieris etc is not easy . |
| 9 | However , effective S-turns are not easy to do , and they need to be practised if they are not to end up in dangerously steep turns or in bringing the final turn too close to the field . |
| 10 | Sometimes it 's not easy to talk about intimate things like sex or your body . |
| 11 | Giving up is not easy , but many women manage it . |
| 12 | At that time , Punch ( 1979 ) pointed out ( in a comparison of facilities in Britain and Holland ) that research into the police in Britain is not easy and |
| 13 | No , Lucy was not easy and so she loved her . |
| 14 | Or : she loved Lucy and so she was not easy ; she was not at ease . |
| 15 | Left A diagonal roundhouse kick is fast and not easy to detect , though it usually cannons off elbows and shoulders |
| 16 | But it is not easy to keep working just at present . ’ |
| 17 | It is not easy to find fault with Jimmy Connors ' version of the backhand , is it ? |
| 18 | This applies equally to carving , but that 's still not easy and it certainly is n't fast . |
| 19 | It is not easy to achieve this effect if they do not take into account the dimension and spacing of the steps as well as their particular quality , which must be in tune with the music if it is to make sense . |
| 20 | Finding the point is not easy , and the gully walls are vertical elsewhere , so if in doubt continue up and back to the source of the gullies . |
| 21 | It 's not easy to say what the narrating ‘ I ’ is doing at such a scene . |
| 22 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 23 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 24 | Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes . |
| 25 | Though Ciullo by Rossetti 's reckoning composed the poem in the 1170s , at least twenty years before Frederick Hohenstaufen came to the throne of Sicily , Pound in The Spirit of Romance juxtaposes the two names , presumably as ‘ an instigation ’ — though to what , it is not easy to say . |
| 26 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 27 | It was not easy . |
| 28 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 29 | It is not easy to understand why . |
| 30 | Large quantities of organic food were not easy to come by in Surrey . |