Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] not been easy " in BNC.

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1 He added : ‘ It is no secret that the atmosphere in the past few months has not been easy .
2 ‘ These last two days have n't been easy for me . ’
3 The past 10 years have not been easy for the profession .
4 Understanding the quantisation experiments has not been easy and is still controversial .
5 Answers to such questions have not been easy to obtain .
6 Things have n't been easy for Nora since your father died . ’
7 Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language .
8 While things in the television , video and film media markets have not been easy , Carlton Communications Plc has increased both interim profits and turnover , helped by sustained recovery at its video and sound products division , which includes Quantel — developer of the computer-based Paintbox television graphics generator .
9 Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster .
10 But the scientific process of unravelling the exact sequence of events has not been easy .
11 The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise .
12 Although the new Prime Minister , the sickly Galician Republican Casares Quiroga , preferred to discount the existence of a serious conspiracy , and although the conspirators ’ preparations had not been easy , by the early summer all but the final pieces were in place for a military rising with strong right-wing civilian support .
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