Example sentences of "can easily [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlikely : court action is costly , and can easily last two years before judgment — by when the playing field should be level anyway . |
| 2 | You can easily spot morel-mushroom hunters . |
| 3 | The jet can easily travel six feet . |
| 4 | A typical locust swarm can easily contain 40 thousand million individuals and the record swarm — one that was said to stretch for 2,000 miles — was estimated at about 250 thousand million insects . |
| 5 | Be careful with rocking or folding chairs — they can easily trap little fingers . |
| 6 | With this , we can easily flip any even number of edges , which we will see is all that is possible . |
| 7 | We can easily bring this condition under control . |
| 8 | Reactivity is also likely to be reduced as respondents can easily remain anonymous-impossible with interviews except when external consultants operate in very large institutions — and there is less social pressure to produce responses which are agreeable to the investigator . |
| 9 | The single philosophic-religious poem is 146 : While we can easily relate this sonnet to the meditative tradition , or to Stoic-Christian mortification patterns , it is an outsider in the Sonnets , which are otherwise a collection of love-poems . |
| 10 | In these days when inter-faith dialogue can easily slip into syncretism , and when man 's search for God can easily supplant all idea of God 's self-disclosure to man , it is most important to remember the emphatic union which the New Testament asserts between the Holy Spirit and Jesus . |
| 11 | And an optical fibre can easily accommodate two-way communication . |
| 12 | ‘ White goods ’ ( fridge , freezer , washing machine ) need n't stay white : respray them ( in a well-ventilated room ) with cans of auto paint — by using masking tape you can easily create simple but eye-catching patterns in bold stripes . |
| 13 | The good thing about this one ( which is based on the Houghton Mifflin standard ) is that it has a pretty comprehensive range of supplied sets of rules and you can easily modify one of these to your own requirements . |
| 14 | The Cardinal himself never pretended otherwise , but people whose doubts are depressingly real can easily forget this and become discouraged by such a standard . |
| 15 | By making themselves obvious to predators they can easily attract unwanted attention . |
| 16 | Those of you who have dry skin will be all too aware that it is sensitive to some skin care products , can easily feel taut — after cleansing or time spent in cold weather — and is prone to premature fine lines . |
| 17 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 18 | We can make in our favour or we can easily make six thousand crackers favours and we 've made a thousand . |
| 19 | At other times labour will be in a weak bargaining position if , as in times of high unemployment , the employer can easily acquire alternative sources of labour off the dole queues . |
| 20 | Few can afford the time and cost of building a new stone wall today , but the principles of dry stone walling , clearly outlined in Rainsford-Hannay 's book Dry Stone Walling , are straightforward and you can easily acquire enough skill to do effective repairs . |
| 21 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 22 | If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener . |
| 23 | Free riders may be ostracized because their colleagues can easily detect uncooperative attitudes to the company . |
| 24 | This is particularly so during election campaigns , though one can easily cite numerous other and different examples ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 25 | Many possess strong claws which can easily break open even hardshelled bivalve molluscs . |
| 26 | Nevertheless it has proved difficult to establish whether the resulting volume changes are sufficient to shatter rock , even in desert environments where diumal temperature ranges on rock surfaces can easily exceed 30 C. Since rock is a poor conductor of heat a thermal gradient is created when the surface is warmed . |
| 27 | Not every one who stumbles is a casualty ; not every casualty is fatal , and the grim sight of a few corpses can easily overwhelm statistical accuracy . |
| 28 | Well , are are you happy that he circulized over time , I mean , we can easily do that . |
| 29 | But in economic affairs state intervention can easily do more harm than good . |
| 30 | When we speak to a child , or to someone from another culture , we can easily estimate this knowledge incorrectly . |