Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it was [adv] easy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen found that it was very easy to talk to Drew . |
| 2 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 3 | The Prison Officers Association said it was astounding that it was so easy to escape from a building which was supposed to be secure . |
| 4 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 5 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 6 | Under the Angevins , it has been argued , ‘ the legal relationship between a king of France and a king of England who held territories on the continent meant that it was relatively easy for the king of France to legitimize his own actions as part of a legal process ’ . |
| 7 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 8 | The Court said that it was not easy to see in the circumstances what other inquiries Savory Milln could have made . |
| 9 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 10 | MPs had complained that it was too easy for them to get benefits , and that many were not actually entitled to the money . |
| 11 | MPs had complained that it was too easy for them to get benefits , and that many were not actually entitled to the money . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend seemed to say that it was too easy to obtain the certificates , and that they were handed out with packets of cereal or like confetti . |