Many image-processing computer systems can perform a number of straightforward operations on the displayed image.

Financially, independent schools are pretty straightforward operations compared with other businesses.

What should have been a straightforward operation went wrong and Stirling's condition deteriorated considerably.

It was a straightforward operation, though not a routine one, and the schooner refloated at the first attempt.

All that's required then is a straightforward baking operation, during which time you can battle with the children over their homework.

It's quite a straightforward operation, and we have all the necessary facilities to perform it.

Brilliant speeches were seldom forthcoming at such moments - and this, after all, was going to be a perfectly straightforward operation.

Running this place is supposed to be a straightforward operation.

It should have been such a straightforward operation!

It's a rather straightforward operation - to gather some important intelligence information in Cairo.