Example sentences of "[be] easy [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is easier to be objective about , and therefore to recognise , the social bias of mathematics questions from abroad . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 5 | It 's easy to be friendly to nice people . |
| 6 | ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’ |
| 7 | It 's easy to be tidy , just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed . |
| 8 | Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's easy to be wise in retrospect and to throw stones at those who negotiated the lease in 1974 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's easy to be frank and to hell with convention when you 're our age . |
| 13 | It 's natural , because peace drives have come and gone , so it 's easy to be doubtful about the success of yet another one . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's easy to be frightened , ’ Frick said as he walked round the table , behind them , their eyes following him . |
| 15 | In a limited treatment like this it is easy to be bland . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |
| 19 | It is easy to be critical . |
| 20 | It is easy to be successful when the world is booming , but not so easy when things tighten up . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is easy to be complacent about the problems faced by older workers when looking for employment . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head . |
| 26 | All too often it is easy to be casual about every-day chores on the farm . |
| 27 | France is not the most hospitable country to foreigners ; it is easy to be lonely here . |
| 28 | It is easy to be romantic about a way of life at one remove . |
| 29 | It is easy to be paranoic about IT and the future , and that is hardly justified ; but constant vigilance is required . |
| 30 | 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 . |