Example sentences of "[is] easy [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolls are 150 metres long — enough for a lifetime — so it is easier to order by the metre . |
| 2 | Needle-knife papillotomy is probably a safer option than pre-cutting with a sphincterotome where the wire emerges from the end , as the direction of the cut is easier to control with the needle-knife and there is less danger of damage to the pancreatic duct . |
| 3 | It is easier to reconcile with the profit and loss account |
| 4 | It is their custom , even on their largest ships , to show no lights at night — on the principle that it is better to see than to be seen , and that it is easier to see in the dark without the distraction of lights . |
| 5 | The sense of touch is also a very fundamental one in that it is easier to get beyond the barrier of words and thoughts to direct experience this way . |
| 6 | Another small club at Warkworth , its airfield right out in the country , is easier to find from the air than by road . |
| 7 | Well it 's easier to recruit at the lower level than it is the upper |
| 8 | Sun said it went to the Russians because it could n't find comparable technology anywhere else — the only other source comes from the US military , and according to Dave Ditzel , acting head of Sun Labs , ‘ It 's easier to work with the Russians ’ . |
| 9 | I tend to think it 's easier to play at the side , because you can actually do that if you want . |
| 10 | It 's easy to fall into the habit of small hooks . |
| 11 | There 's a really good train service to Brighton so it 's easy to nip between the two . |
| 12 | It 's easy to take off the outside when when you come to take the inside ones it 's quite difficult . |
| 13 | It 's easy to switch between the different sections of the menu by keying in the numbers at the bottom of the page , and , if the Met section has a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast ( TAF ) available , you can access it by a cross-referencing key and then return to the AIS section with a single keystroke . |
| 14 | Although this is not a beginner 's resort , it 's easy to escape to the more gentle slopes of Lech . |
| 15 | It is easy to fall into the trap of looking for causal relations between what we ( the education community ) do and what pupils achieve , and forget to take into account our pupils ' own efforts , perceptions and experiences . |
| 16 | It is easy to fall into the trap of the seductive powers of an existing technique that sounds fun and has had success elsewhere — beware ! ! |
| 17 | Brean Sands is easy to reach by the M5 . |
| 18 | The Isle of Arran is easy to reach from the mainland in summer . |
| 19 | It is easy to scoff at the movement — with its prizes for knitting and taffeta umbrellas , its hyperboles about the happy revolution to be accomplished by wheel ploughs , its scientific amateurism — as the naïve posturings of a minority engaged in a self-conscious crusade against the forces of routine and conservatism . |
| 20 | It is easy to see on the dinner plate that the muscles down each side of any fish are arranged as a row of segments , a battery of muscle units . |
| 21 | It is easy to see from the list of qualities appropriate to the good Beguine listed in one thirteenth-century manuscript how their piety engaged with contemplative spirituality . |
| 22 | The need for the Bill , which will tidy up the law on the legality of traffic-calming measures , is easy to see throughout the country . |
| 23 | It is easy to go to the odd verse or two in the Bible and conclude triumphantly that homosexuality is a great evil and homosexual practices can never be condoned . |
| 24 | It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims . |
| 25 | It is easy to sympathize with the distinguished sceptic . |
| 26 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 27 | On the face of it , it is easy to sympathise with the president 's view that ‘ as a sovereign state , ’ Kenya will no longer accept ‘ any form of economic arm-twisting from any quarter . ’ |
| 28 | It is easy to distinguish between the two markets — the discount market has as one of its participants the Bank of England , participating in its capacity of ‘ lender of last resort ’ , an important function dealt with later in this chapter . |
| 29 | Since citizenship has become a fashionable and acceptable word , it is easy to slip into the habit of using it in preference to ‘ individual rights ’ or ‘ human rights ’ , but it is important to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the private sphere of the life of the individual separate from his role as citizen , an essentially political role and status . |
| 30 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |