Example sentences of "it is easy [to-vb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 For those unions organised on a comprehensive , industrial basis it is easy to see that they would be likely to seek bargaining arrangements founded upon the extent of the product market .
2 It is easy to see that it is intended to be consistent .
3 When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process .
4 Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money .
5 With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance .
6 It is easy to suppose that it must be good news for a theory when experience confirms it .
7 Faced with such apparently perverse ways of thinking it is easy to conclude that they can not possibly reason as we reason .
8 Thus , it is easy to tell that he loves being a jockey .
9 If we think about Freud and his influence it is not hard to find out what he wrote and said , and it is easy to guess that it must have been important .
10 If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently .
11 Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized .
12 It is easy to forget that it had to start somewhere .
13 It is easy to forget that it was here , millions of years ago , that our forebears first appeared .
14 It is easy to think that they are made by men .
15 If you do have a fairly sophisticated information service it is easy to think that you have all the answers to hand , but this may not be the case .
16 For example , if we consider the English phoneme , it is easy to show that it differs from the plosives and in its place of articulation ( alveolar ) , from in being lenis , from and in not being fricative , from in not being nasal , and so on .
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