Example sentences of "although it [is] [adv] easy [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is not easy to establish exactly what proportion of total local spending goes to specific areas of the cities , where efforts were made , the inner-urban areas do not appear to have done particularly well . |
| 2 | Although it is relatively easy to decide how the intensity of sexual selection should be estimated , collecting the relevant data poses a variety of logistic problems ( Ralls , 1977 ; Davies , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Although it is relatively easy to illustrate the process of modelling in a book or at a lecture , in real life there are problems in deciding how far one should go and what level of detail is appropriate . |
| 4 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 5 | " It does not make environmental or economic sense " , he argued , " although it is politically easy to tell people they should recycle . |