Example sentences of "easy to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added brightly , ‘ Much easier to be a fallen woman when you 're miles from home . |
| 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 | The person you are dealing with will also find it far easier to be helpful if she/he is clear about what the problem is and what you want . |
| 4 | Much easier to be private in the country . ’ |
| 5 | Thus a boy with a reputation for challenging the authority of his teacher in school , or with a record of resisting the restraints of the police , might find it easier to be accepted in the aggro-leader role . |
| 6 | In 1979 , when punk rock became ‘ intellectual ’ , with groups such as Joy Divison , it was easier to be a middle-class punk . |
| 7 | The protection against being bound by a treaty to which there has been no express consent appears excessive , while it is easier to be held bound by customary obligations . |
| 8 | I 'd probably remember that easier to be honest SOH CAH TOA . |
| 9 | It was much , much easier to be mischievous , to be slightly bad ; and while , of course , being very good was an infinity , an eternity , away from being very bad , being a bit bad was very similar to being a bit good and unfortunately offered more opportunities for fun . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At that moment it was easier to be persuaded of his innocence , his scathing rejection of violence . |
| 12 | Er and it was much easier to be living on the premises , that 's what we felt at the time . |
| 13 | It is easier to be objective about , and therefore to recognise , the social bias of mathematics questions from abroad . |
| 14 | You know , it 's much , it 's much easier to be nasty about something than it is to be nice about something . |
| 15 | The influence of an international market is not easy to be precise about , though the appearance of work in a Biennale or an art fair can be impressive in itself . |
| 16 | It is obviously crucial that all instructors are aware of any student who has this problem , since it is so easy to be caught out , like I was . |
| 17 | It is easy to be misled . |
| 18 | It is easy to be romantic about a way of life at one remove . |
| 19 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 20 | Lord Justice Slade said that , in the case of ‘ sleepers ’ , it was all too easy to be wise after the event . |
| 21 | It 's too easy to be controversial. , |
| 22 | I thought anonymity was easy : it was easy to be a simple , nodding individual who got on the bus . |
| 23 | It is easy to be put off buying a greenhouse simply because you might be moving house in a few years . |
| 24 | You can see why it is easy to be muddled about carbohydrate . |
| 25 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 26 | He warned : ‘ It is easy to be has-beens at 21 with nothing in thee future and for their lives to be ruined . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's easy to be friendly to nice people . |
| 29 | Nor was it easy to be thrust together with some grandmothers . |
| 30 | But it was not so easy to be dismissive of the Incas . |