Example sentences of "be easy to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 2 | It is easier to be objective about , and therefore to recognise , the social bias of mathematics questions from abroad . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 4 | It 's easy to be friendly to nice people . |
| 5 | ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's easy to be wise in retrospect and to throw stones at those who negotiated the lease in 1974 . |
| 7 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
| 8 | It 's natural , because peace drives have come and gone , so it 's easy to be doubtful about the success of yet another one . |
| 9 | It is easy to be tolerant of members of other races if one is confident of one 's own standing in society ; much harder if one is competing against immigrants for a council house and a low-paid job . |
| 10 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |
| 11 | It is easy to be complacent about the problems faced by older workers when looking for employment . |
| 12 | It is easy to be alarmed by something which one imagines does not happen to other people and which one 's family and friends may suggest is pure imagination or , worse still , the first sign of madness ! |
| 13 | It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head . |
| 14 | All too often it is easy to be casual about every-day chores on the farm . |
| 15 | It is easy to be romantic about a way of life at one remove . |
| 16 | It is easy to be paranoic about IT and the future , and that is hardly justified ; but constant vigilance is required . |
| 17 | In a post-Stalinist epoch it is easy to be dismissive of the moral imperative of Marxism as embodied in the Soviet experiment and the French communist party . |
| 18 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 19 | It was easy to be side-tracked by the more exotic elements in a case . |
| 20 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |