Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adv] easy [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |
| 2 | Given the large crowds , moreover , professional soccer provides a context where it is relatively easy to escape detection and arrest , and last but not least , a group of outsiders , the opposing team and its fans , comes regularly into the home territory where they are perceived as invaders and targets for attack . |
| 3 | On a system like the ZX Spectrum where it is often easier to draw in black and white before adding the colours this in an essential facility . |
| 4 | Although it is plainly easier to examine the narrower conception of the media 's political impact by exploring specific case studies , long-term and fundamental changes in the public 's perceptions of the political world must not be overlooked . |
| 5 | Although it is not easy to establish exactly what proportion of total local spending goes to specific areas of the cities , where efforts were made , the inner-urban areas do not appear to have done particularly well . |
| 6 | Although it is relatively easy to decide how the intensity of sexual selection should be estimated , collecting the relevant data poses a variety of logistic problems ( Ralls , 1977 ; Davies , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Although it is relatively easy to illustrate the process of modelling in a book or at a lecture , in real life there are problems in deciding how far one should go and what level of detail is appropriate . |
| 8 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 9 | " It does not make environmental or economic sense " , he argued , " although it is politically easy to tell people they should recycle . |
| 10 | The origin of such cusps is obscure ( see Komar ( 1976 ) for summary of theories ) , although it is much easier to see why , once formed , they will be maintained . |
| 11 | The kick up design at the top of the rudder means that it 's particularly easy to fit on the beach . |
| 12 | Not that it 's that easy to shop for clothes , that 's why most disabled girls end up wearing what people have given them . |
| 13 | I do n't agree that it 's as easy to have two dogs as it is to have one — it 's almost as easy . |
| 14 | One of the dangers of the position , however , is that it 's very easy to slip into full authority — which is a " con " that children can see through all too easily . |
| 15 | When wearing crampons it 's important to remember that it 's very easy to spike yourself and trip up . |
| 16 | Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round . |
| 17 | One reason is that it 's so easy to push bacteria into the urethra during sex , the other is that friction due to poor lubrication ( common in many women ) can cause bruising , triggering an attack . |
| 18 | The comparative simplicity of the equipment and the fact that it 's so easy to transport and launch has got loads of newcomers out onto the water . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 21 | Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes . |
| 22 | He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time . |
| 23 | I think erm you 've got to say that it is not easy to find people to give the commitment to local government work these days and I think a partial remuneration of the expense that they incur is a very reasonable thing for the public to have to meet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( Parenthetically , let me admit that it is n't easy to resist cracking all those nut jokes . |
| 26 | This means that it is equally easy to evolve from any one to any other one . |
| 27 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 28 | Another advantage is that the open nature of the meeting means that it is less easy to split workers and carers . |
| 29 | Brushing your teeth is so much a part of daily routine that it is sometimes easy to forget the importance of doing it properly . |
| 30 | The fish snaps at these enticingly offered morsels and finds that it is comparatively easy to bite one off . |