Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be easy [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be a suitable physical means of exchange , money must be light enough to carry around , must come in a number of denominations , large and small , and must not be easy to forge ( see Box 16.3 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Because he is grey he may not be easy to spot and will probably look like a pigeon from a distance . |
| 3 | As we experience Act I , Scene i , of King Lear for the first time , it may not be easy to see that Cordelia is right , the others wrong . |
| 4 | The animals may be there but it may not be easy to see them because they are too small ; therefore use the microscope ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | Clothing may not be easy to undo . |
| 6 | However , the role of the practitioner vis-a-vis the user/carer may not be easy to marry with the role of the practitioner as an employee of an agency responsible for the provision , either directly or indirectly , of services which will be rationed . |
| 7 | Even upon a close analysis , it may not be easy to determine whether churning has occurred or not . |
| 8 | With publicly provided private goods it may not be easy to identify the beneficiaries ( who visits museums ? ) and the correct allocation may be open to debate ( what benefit should be allowed in the case of education ? ) |
| 9 | This may not be easy to prove , as if the precaution is possible it must be taken , even if the risks involved in taking it outweigh the benefits . |
| 10 | A direct causal relationship may not be easy to establish . |
| 11 | This avoids copious memos which may not be easy to trace in the future . |
| 12 | It is also dangerous for a tenant to rely on the provisions of s 62 as the section does not , for example , apply to services and , additionally , as the section takes effect from the date of the demise , it may not be easy to adduce evidence 15 years after the grant that the right complained of was used by the occupants when the lease was granted . |
| 13 | It should be noted that an organizational type unrepresented so far is the reputedly widespread model whereby there is informal specialization by client group through weighted caseloads ( which may or may not be similar to the model exemplified by Team C ) ; and that it may not be easy to find many examples of the Team A type . |
| 14 | There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed , but this may not be easy to find . |
| 15 | If the words are subdivided into similar verses the musical solution may be quite simple , but when this is not so an ideal musical form may not be easy to find . |
| 16 | But he knew it was more likely that alien golden eagles would have taken it over and it might not be easy to win it back for his own . |
| 17 | It could not be easy to produce meals for seven or eight lodgers under such spartan conditions . |
| 18 | It could n't be easy to cope with the emotional strain of a missing husband and do his job at the same time . |
| 19 | It would not be easy to effect the transition that Labour suggests by Government sleight of hand . |
| 20 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 21 | She would not be easy to miss . |
| 22 | Such ideas would not be easy to implement . |
| 23 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 24 | The Young King , as he was called , must have known that it would not be easy to persuade his father to give up any of his power and revenues . |
| 25 | Now that she had met Silas Wilder , Lucy realised it would not be easy to persuade him to visit his stepmother , and once again she wondered why she had been stupid enough to have allowed herself to become involved in this situation . |
| 26 | In ordinary flowing speech , the whole sentence happens so quickly that , even if you held the speaker firmly by the throat , it would not be easy to spot vibration of quickly passing consonant sounds . |
| 27 | The pupil-teacher ratio ( PTR ) and the contact ratio ( the time teachers spend directly teaching as opposed to preparing and marking work ) might be regarded as inputs and , in addition to the examples taken from the Audit Commission report , outputs might include punctuality and values and attitudes acquired by the time the pupils leave school — though the latter would not be easy to quantify . |
| 28 | ‘ It would not be easy to raise the capital needed , ’ she said at length . |
| 29 | Yet she had known from the start that he would not be easy to keep ; he was a man deeply in love , relentlessly loyal to that one love , with no room for any other woman . |
| 30 | which proves that it would n't be easy to get in there anyway , so |