That said, discovering what's going on in a foreign city is not necessarily a straightforward task.

Getting the children onto the trains was not a straightforward task.

The interpretation of phase-contrast images is not a straightforward task.

That was a straightforward task, and more unfortunately, generally disappointing.

It is a straightforward task with one annoying aspect: seeds.

Learning what men want would seem to be a straightforward task.

Determining which stories Hemingway wrote, however, was not a straightforward task.

Even so apparently straightforward a task is not carried out without difficulty.

Working this into a game when looking at books or organising toys is a straightforward task.

He had thought it was a fairly straightforward task.