Example sentences of "[verb] not be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even in a country like India , where there is skilled manpower , it has not been easy to install enough new factories to keep pace with growing demand . |
| 2 | ‘ It has not been easy to do because we have never given guarantees before . |
| 3 | It has not been easy to establish the numbers of appointments — and hence fees paid out — for which clients engaged search consultants . |
| 4 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 5 | In geomorphology , as in soil geography , it has not been easy to achieve representations of global spatial patterns based upon processes to succeed the long-established static morphological or structured landform regions . |
| 6 | The reverberations of the Super 8/Standard 8 controversy can still be detected ; institutions were encouraged to invest in the new film equipment , but found that some manufacturers persisted in producing material only in the earlier format ; the resultant collapse of confidence has not been easy to repair . |
| 7 | It has not been easy to change so quickly to the needs of a more demanding market place , but if your customers , staff or management have cause to complain of imprecise or unreliable temperature control equipment , of a poor maintenance record or of substandard temperatures at the point of consumption , we are the correct sector of engineering you require . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , in July 1986 Guinness announced that ‘ it has not been possible to reach agreement with Sir Thomas Risk and he will not now be invited to join the board , nor therefore be nominated as Non-Executive Chairman ’ . |
| 10 | It has not been possible to assess the state of their health , but fishermen have advised marine biologists that the area contains very little food . |
| 11 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 12 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 13 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 14 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 15 | For various reasons , it has not been possible to arrange for this sub-committee to meet . |
| 16 | Until recently , it has not been possible to use the Census to follow a particular group of people through their lives ( but see Fox and Goldblatt above ) , but it is perfectly feasible to study the changing population structure of , say , a particular district . |
| 17 | Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ … |
| 18 | Until quite recently it has not been possible to track the land use implications of such economic and social changes in any detail . |
| 19 | White and Wilson also comment : ‘ Within the case studies it has not been possible to examine closely the relationship ( if any exists ) between the use of information and personal or business effectiveness . |
| 20 | One aspect of the regional geography of job loss and job change which it has not been possible to examine in the chapter is the contrasting ways in which different regions of the UK relate to the international division of labour . |
| 21 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 22 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to find a fool-proof numbering system applicable to all molecules , but two simple rules are well-established . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 25 | By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show . |
| 26 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 27 | It has not been possible to produce a diagram modelling our use of information services — it would have required at least four dimensions to deal with the different aspects . |
| 28 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 29 | It has not been possible to pass the disease on to animals or to human volunteers by inoculation of the organism . |
| 30 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |