Example sentences of "it [be] easy to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 2 | ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’ |
| 3 | It 's easy to be tidy , just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed . |
| 4 | It 's easy to be friendly to nice people . |
| 5 | Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards . |
| 6 | It 's easy to be frank and to hell with convention when you 're our age . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's easy to be frightened , ’ Frick said as he walked round the table , behind them , their eyes following him . |
| 8 | It 's natural , because peace drives have come and gone , so it 's easy to be doubtful about the success of yet another one . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's easy to be wise in retrospect and to throw stones at those who negotiated the lease in 1974 . |
| 12 | There is no general evidence as yet to link second home ownership with house price increases ( de Vane 1975 ) , but in local instances this has undoubtedly happened on a property-for-property basis , and it is easy to be convinced that dire housing consequences can come about for the ‘ traditional ’ rural population . |
| 13 | It is easy to be alarmed by something which one imagines does not happen to other people and which one 's family and friends may suggest is pure imagination or , worse still , the first sign of madness ! |
| 14 | It is easy to be successful when the world is booming , but not so easy when things tighten up . |
| 15 | It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head . |
| 16 | All too often it is easy to be casual about every-day chores on the farm . |
| 17 | It is easy to be cynical and think that new prospective customers will only give you their favourite trade references ; which are just the ones you do n't want . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |
| 21 | It is easy to be critical . |
| 22 | In a limited treatment like this it is easy to be bland . |
| 23 | It is easy to be complacent about the problems faced by older workers when looking for employment . |
| 24 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 25 | It is easy to be romantic about a way of life at one remove . |
| 26 | I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop . |
| 27 | It is easy to be paranoic about IT and the future , and that is hardly justified ; but constant vigilance is required . |
| 28 | France is not the most hospitable country to foreigners ; it is easy to be lonely here . |
| 29 | In a post-Stalinist epoch it is easy to be dismissive of the moral imperative of Marxism as embodied in the Soviet experiment and the French communist party . |
| 30 | It is likely to be easier to commit crime in urban areas in that it is easier to be unnoticed and to remain anonymous in such areas . |