Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] easy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 2 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 3 | Karen found that it was very easy to talk to Drew . |
| 4 | When one thinks that it is so easy to simply discard direct mail , it is more difficult to ignore a telephone call , especially if the message is ‘ personalised ’ . |
| 5 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 6 | In itself there is little harm in this , but I have noticed that it is very easy for the quest to become obsessional . |
| 7 | When wearing crampons it 's important to remember that it 's very easy to spike yourself and trip up . |
| 8 | It is expensive to buy food that children do not eat and it is very easy for the mother to fall into the trap of offering the child only what she thinks the child still likes . |
| 9 | University posts , however , were an attractive means of obliging friends , and a good deal safer , for popular feeling was rarely aroused and it was relatively easy to escape from an importunate friend by arguing that the place had already been promised . |
| 10 | Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round . |
| 11 | I must emphasise that these conclusions are quite tentative , because of the lack of data , hopefully as we carry on , and maybe get more schools involved , we 'll get a bigger set of data , then we can actually do some statistical analysis , and , to be more certain of the results , but it shows general patterns that we 'd expect , so it makes , it shows that it 's quite easy for the schoolchildren , and it fits in very well with their geography courses , and the new G C S E curriculum . |
| 12 | He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time . |
| 13 | The Prison Officers Association said it was astounding that it was so easy to escape from a building which was supposed to be secure . |
| 14 | Against the use of a letter it must be noted that it is not easy to write a short but very clear letter explaining everything the informant may want to know , and if the recipient decides that she or he does not want to co-operate then she/he is warned in advance of the interviewer 's call . |
| 15 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 16 | You will discover that it is much easier to find the exact point of focus when the zoom is set to telephoto , partly due to the enlargement of the image and partly to the fact that the focus depth of field is much shallower at this end of the zoom . |
| 17 | The high strength of thin fibres may be due in part to the fact that such fibres are very easily bent and it is therefore easier to bend them than to scratch them . |
| 18 | Well a word processor is much much better to use because it 's so easy to you 've got ta change everything that follows , whereas you know , with a with a word processor you can add paragraphs about words in change words . |
| 19 | The fish snaps at these enticingly offered morsels and finds that it is comparatively easy to bite one off . |
| 20 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 21 | We 've been there ourselves and now feel that it 's too easy for churches simply to add to the guilt of those who have abortions . ’ |
| 22 | Designs are quite difficult to convert and it is often easier to start with designs for this type of knitting . |
| 23 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 24 | Under the Angevins , it has been argued , ‘ the legal relationship between a king of France and a king of England who held territories on the continent meant that it was relatively easy for the king of France to legitimize his own actions as part of a legal process ’ . |
| 25 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 26 | ( Parenthetically , let me admit that it is n't easy to resist cracking all those nut jokes . |
| 27 | The kick up design at the top of the rudder means that it 's particularly easy to fit on the beach . |
| 28 | This means that it is equally easy to evolve from any one to any other one . |
| 29 | The difficulty of expressing what we think adequately in matters concerned with assumptions and beliefs means that it is often easier to say what we do not agree with than what we do . |
| 30 | Another advantage is that the open nature of the meeting means that it is less easy to split workers and carers . |