Example sentences of "it is easier for " in BNC.

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1 It may be hard to accept , but the argument goes that it is easier for a creative and original performer to learn how to play his instrument than it is for a consummate player to learn creativity .
2 It is easier for a husband to be found for a thin , and therefore supposedly beautiful , girl than for a plump one .
3 It is easier for this to happen if there are in any case two copies of most genes present most of the time , as in diploids .
4 It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest .
5 It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC .
6 17.51 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should learn that it is easier for the reader to recognise the relationship between essential and subsidiary information if parenthetical constructions are separated by brackets or pairs of commas or dashes .
7 If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough .
8 2–3 ) to complain that it was impossible to tell the exact hour ‘ since it is easier for philosophers to agree than for clocks ’ !
9 It is easier for a horse to evade going correctly because correct work is hard work , requiring effort .
10 When you speak to someone on the telephone it is easier for you to represent your company or organization .
11 In many ways , it is easier for smaller men to keep fit ; they are less subject to variations in weight and musculature .
12 For many of those who do take the text seriously however , Christian teaching on the subject of wealth is summed up either by one of the easily remembered phrases from the Gospels such as ‘ Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor , and you will have treasure in heaven ’ ( Luke 18:22 ) or ‘ You can not serve God and Mammon ’ ( Luke 16:13 ) or that ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God ’ ( Luke 18:25 ) or by the way in which the members of the Jerusalem Church as recorded in Acts of the Apostles shared their wealth according to the principle ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his need ’ .
13 And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) .
14 Let us suppose that binary oppositions are natural in the sound system of a language , that because of the physical properties of our auditory apparatus it is easier for us to distinguish x/not-x-type contrasts .
15 The OALD now has more words , more examples , more information on usage , pronunciation and stress , and more illustrations than ever before ; and it is easier for the student to use .
16 Moreover , with so many potential members , it is easier for someone to free-ride without being noticed or subjected to any kind of social sanction by those who do join .
17 The results show that , generally it is easier for most pupils to draw a named shape than provide a name for a shape .
18 In times of expansion , developments can be additive , and it is easier for new subjects to become institutionally — as distinct from academically — accepted ( doubts can linger for a long time ) .
19 It appears that due to the history and cultural values of Japan , it is easier for the Japanese to suppress their ‘ egos ’ , focusing instead on the greater good .
20 It is easier for the lecturer to write than for the student to look at a distant blackboard and then back to his so-called " notes " , and so a phase difference develops between the blackboard and the class .
21 We know that it is easier for your body to tolerate the habit if you also eat well but many do not .
22 Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department .
23 Where the floating charge is in favour of a ‘ connected person ’ it is easier for an administrator or liquidator to challenge the charge .
24 It is easier for two parties to reach agreement than for three .
25 The teacher can remain facing the class , so it is easier for him to maintain attention .
26 I tell them to pay in metal , it is easier for me to negotiate , but they always reply that it 's too hard for them to get .
27 Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’
28 It is easier for the purchaser to deal with the creditors and debtors as they are likely to continue to be customers and suppliers of the business after completion .
29 But of course , you are n't out to trap me into matrimony , so it is easier for you to be frank .
30 Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’
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