Example sentences of "that can not easily [be] " in BNC.

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1 Adoption is hard , and everyone involved has disappointments , longings and anger that can not easily be dealt with .
2 It is important to weigh up all possible courses of action , and the factors for and against , before making a decision that can not easily be reversed .
3 He made no attempt to play down Russia 's problems , including ‘ decades of under-investment and wrongly directed investment … industrial dinosaurs that can not easily be slimmed down and taught tricks … huge deficiencies in basic infrastructure , and … some horrendous environmental problems . ’
4 The reasoning is not aimed at supporting a positive argument : it is negative and adversarial , and aimed at rejecting the arguments of other scholars and at excluding evidence that can not easily be accommodated into a unilinear historical canon .
5 This is not a problem while the book 's owner still lives , but on his death the spell book becomes a source of uncontrolled power that can not easily be defused .
6 The apparent ability of these receptors to substitute for one another is strange in view of their strong evolutionary conservation ; perhaps , mused Chambon , their absence results in a phenotype that can not easily be measured in the laboratory .
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