Example sentences of "[be] easy to be " in BNC.

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1 It had been easy to be friends when she had n't felt this sudden urgent longing for him .
2 It can not be easy to be the partner of a genius , and Constanze certainly made the best of it .
3 It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest .
4 It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery .
5 The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made .
6 It 's easy to be friendly to nice people .
7 It 's easy to be aware that things need sorting out but to be too preoccupied with the routine of living to do anything about it .
8 It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense .
9 ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off .
10 Curle , who started at Bristol Rovers , said : ‘ It 's easy to be intimidated by the Rovers fans but we 're not afraid . ’
11 Species similar in appearance , but growing on the ground , will probably belong to the clavulinopsis genera or families , but it 's easy to be fooled by fungi seemingly growing in the wrong habitat .
12 It 's easy to be frank and to hell with convention when you 're our age .
13 ‘ It 's easy to be frightened , ’ Frick said as he walked round the table , behind them , their eyes following him .
14 It 's easy to be tidy , just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed .
15 Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards .
16 ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’
17 It 's natural , because peace drives have come and gone , so it 's easy to be doubtful about the success of yet another one .
18 ‘ It 's easy to be wise in retrospect and to throw stones at those who negotiated the lease in 1974 .
19 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 .
20 It is easy to be misled .
21 It is easy to be romantic about a way of life at one remove .
22 It is easy to be put off buying a greenhouse simply because you might be moving house in a few years .
23 You can see why it is easy to be muddled about carbohydrate .
24 He warned : ‘ It is easy to be has-beens at 21 with nothing in thee future and for their lives to be ruined .
25 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 .
26 It is easy to be complacent about the problems faced by older workers when looking for employment .
27 It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head .
28 Such instantaneous judgments come quickly with the benefit of distance and hindsight — it is easy to be smug and superior at ( what we think are ) the follies of earlier times .
29 In a limited treatment like this it is easy to be bland .
30 It is easy to be paranoic about IT and the future , and that is hardly justified ; but constant vigilance is required .
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