Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be [adv] easy " in BNC.

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1 It 's better that you should n't be too easy to find . ’
2 Quite a nice catch for him , we might think , though who was catching whom exactly may not be so easy to determine — many a man , according to a rather cynical 19th-century doctor , was ‘ bounced into marriage ’ .
3 Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever .
4 The example is chosen because unlike the freehold and the car the market for used cash tills is not so visible and as such establishing replacement cost of a used till may not be so easy .
5 However , identifying a breach of the rule may not be so easy .
6 Other sources of acid rain may not be so easy to control .
7 It may not be as easy as surrendering your body to the doctor and simply taking the medicine , nor can you expect an over-night cure .
8 If there is a desire to go down this road it has to be said it may not be as easy as it might at first seem .
9 It might not be as easy as plotting Vologsky 's defection — and Kirov had only just reminded himself of a few of the terrors which he could face if he failed .
10 It might not be as easy as his relationship with Alain Prost but he does n't want to make any judgements before he has met Senna .
11 ‘ I thought that once , ’ said Gazzer , ‘ but it might not be so easy … .
12 My hon. Friend asks me to do several things that might not be so easy to do at once .
13 I would have thought it might n't be too easy .
14 In contrast to earlier fears that the ‘ special relationship ’ might have been in jeopardy , he said he had no doubt that the president would remain a friend of Britain and that the relationship between the pair could not be more easy .
15 Surely it could n't be that easy ?
16 Of course , being a boy made it the more difficult , it would not be as easy , but it had begun to seem to her not impossible to keep in touch with Pen wherever he was .
17 It may have become obvious to Pius and his advisers that a Council would not be as easy to manipulate as they had imagined .
18 He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross .
19 It would n't be so easy to melt into the background .
20 Braining Charlie would n't be so easy .
21 Mind you ca n't mana well I suppose you could manage without it but that would n't be so easy would it ?
22 It would n't be too easy , but he knew he could manage it .
23 But it would n't be as easy as all that to get out .
24 It would n't be as easy as they imagined .
25 She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon .
26 It would n't be as easy as that . ’
27 And somehow Meredith knew that he would n't be as easy to brush off , or to coax , or to divert with jokes as the other young men she 'd fended off .
28 Eventually they settle in to a new home — but life ca n't be that easy , can it ?
29 Because it 's , it , it ca n't be very easy to , to make contact with a , a regime like the Vietnam regime , I mean are you hopeful that it 'll actually do any good ?
30 It ca n't be so easy for you to run your business from here . ’
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