Example sentences of "but it is [adv] easy " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to do with halls of residence , but it is also easy to do where students are living in digs or even when they are the owners of properties . |
| 2 | But it is generally easy to recognize a peak due to ionization from an essentially non-bonding level . |
| 3 | The Corrado 's no match for the Calibra 's large and flat luggage space either because its spare wheel intrudes , but it is marginally easier to load then the Calibra , which has a very high loading lip . |
| 4 | Many clownfish species on the other hand also live in pairs but it is relatively easy to acquire a compatible pair . |
| 5 | Not a lot of variation — but it is very easy listening . |
| 6 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 7 | There are quite a few ingredients in this recipe , but it is very easy to make . |
| 8 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 9 | British food , for example , may be unfamiliar or not uncommonly , unacceptable on religious grounds , but it is very easy to get diet right if catering staff ask individuals or their relatives about their dietary habits . |
| 10 | ‘ But it is too easy , somehow . |
| 11 | One might forgive the hyperbole in a politician but it is less easy to take from academic or journalistic critics . |
| 12 | But it is less easy to see how they might be described in reference to grammar on the one hand and lexis on the other . |
| 13 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 14 | But it is less easy to take a vanishing oboe at a critical stage of the first movement development or the generally under-nourished and acoustically ill-focused playing of the second violins . |
| 15 | Such hidden assertions can easily be discovered , but it is less easy to notice two further presuppositions in the sentence : " It is possible to evaluate texts ( i.e. say that one is the 'best' ) " and " It is possible for texts to reflect social attitudes " . |
| 16 | But it is undoubtedly easy to use . |
| 17 | This may sound somewhat awesome but it is fairly easy to accomplish . |
| 18 | You could never grow a carnation which had all the colours of the Union Flag , but it is quite easy to make one using food dyes . |
| 19 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 20 | Getting going again after a hard race is not easy , but it is much easier if you have a plan to follow . |