Example sentences of "that it was easy [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His expression had n't changed , but suddenly she saw an underlying loss and sadness , so much a part of him that it was easy to miss — but once seen , not easy to overlook again . |
| 2 | Broadcasters themselves were also aware that it was easy to overdo the attention given to politicians and political news ; it might make some politicians happy , but not the audience . |
| 3 | Like McAllister he was discovering that it was easy to bear the grief and pain of others when you were not emotionally committed to them . |
| 4 | And Maurin replied that it was easy to guess . |
| 5 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 6 | I found that it was easy to read and well organised in eight chapters . |
| 7 | This accurate boring mill also meant that it was easy to convert the engine to a double acting one , i.e. one where the piston is pushed both ways in the cylinder . |
| 8 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 9 | The Hayward 's lower galleries are mainly devoted to personal contributions , to semi-abstract painting ( and the absence of sculpture in this section suggests that it was easier to join international art by painting rather than sculpting ) . |
| 10 | In considering the case of B Ltd , he stated that it was easier to conclude that the mezzanine platforms were plant as the four platforms had been installed at different times , covered only 60% of the floor area and one had actually been dismantled . |
| 11 | The steamer was full of refugees and many Chinese — the railway was full of troops moving south so that it was easier to go by river . |
| 12 | Rostov decided that it was easier to go in search of what would pass in the Simonova for a command bridge than it was to remain in his quarters , while Vorontseff attempted to eradicate within the space of an hour the accumulated disarray of several years of civilian occupation . |
| 13 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 14 | More self-knowledge meant that it was easier to see man as one natural object among many . |
| 15 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 16 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 17 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 18 | She was finding that it was easier to speak to his back than be forced to confront his frightening expression . |
| 19 | They had learned that it was easier to survive on the croft than in the bread line . |
| 20 | The emphasis was upon local government because it was felt that it was easier to develop a comparative analysis drawing upon the considerable number of studies of local decision making in Britain and the United States . |
| 21 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |
| 22 | Abrams and Marsden ( 1987 ) found that it was easier to care for a heavily dependent person where there was an underlying positive relationship , than to care for a less dependent person where feelings were ambiguous or hostile . |