Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] a easy [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even those outside the profession will know it has not been an easy road recently . |
| 2 | It had not been an easy concept to grasp at first , but ‘ we 're getting better at being businessmen , ’ Mr. Lockley said . |
| 3 | 1992 has not been an easy year , but both the underlying business performance , BP 's general high reputation , and a tremendous buy-in by all of our people to the concept of teamworking makes me confident about 1993 , without expecting too much in the way of improvement in the overall economic environment . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 5 | Distributing next year 's maintained payment between the two new companies has clearly not been an easy task and question marks must remain over the board 's decision just to split the 1993 payment straight down the middle with the promise that each company will not pay less than 27.5p a share . |
| 6 | However , amid rapid development and shooting commercial rentals in Wimbledon , this has not been an easy search . |
| 7 | It has not been an easy ride , however . |
| 8 | For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | We should consider Spain 's experience since joining the exchange rate mechanism because that has not been an easy option for Spain . |
| 10 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 11 | It had n't been an easy decision for him in any regard . |
| 12 | It has n't been an easy year for the mother of two grown-up children , as anxious pet-owners have been known to telephone at four o' clock in the morning to ask about their cats or dogs . |
| 13 | I have n't been an easy man to live with for the past year . |
| 14 | It had n't been an easy task , and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed . |
| 15 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |