Example sentences of "not easily be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This staggering figure could not easily be explained away . |
| 2 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 3 | When prisoners are released and return home , the institutional defences can not easily be given up . |
| 4 | Unlike coffee , tea could not easily be grown profitably on smallholdings . |
| 5 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 6 | Physics as Metaphor is a part of this movement and yet it can not easily be pigeon-holed alongside , for example , Fritjof Capra 's The Tao of Physics . |
| 7 | Although most departments have drawn up plans , many areas of departmental work can not easily be broken down into discrete cost centres . |
| 8 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |