Example sentences of "[pers pn] be easy [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it .
2 With hindsight , it 's easy to see that the kids had been the victim of a conspiracy .
3 It 's easy to say that the smashing of a guitar is a loss to some potential player or other , but very few guitars are smashed compared with , say , the thousands of great instruments that are stored away in collections , in bank vaults etc .
4 It 's easy to say that a bustling street is a sign of economic recovery , but how many of the people in your picture were actually spending money ?
5 It 's easy to say that when you 're 20 and you 've never needed much money .
6 It 's easy to say that now he 's dead , is n't it ?
7 Afterwards , it 's easy to forget that the important work for the children still goes on .
8 It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’
9 When everything 's going well for you it 's easy to forget that God 's there with you , because life 's so busy and so much fun .
10 It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes .
11 As you watch a buzzard quartering the ground , it 's easy to think that they are very lazy birds .
12 Since all the schools follow the same teaching plan and since the content of the programme followed by children in the early years is less demanding academically than that followed by adolescents , it is easy to argue that teachers in the lower grades require less training .
13 It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results .
14 Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material .
15 It is easy to see that this was a practical means of enclosing a large volume which then could be used for the storage of grain , and the profile is reminiscent of the gambrel-roofed hay barns in the USA .
16 It is easy to see that there are 12 pentagons on the ball .
17 It is easy to see that there is potential here for an undermining of Samuel .
18 It is a problem only afflicting women and only after puberty , so it is easy to see that the condition is connected with our hormones .
19 It is easy to see that , if this pivot is made , the resulting tableau is optimal for LP8 and has objective function value Since the coefficients in the objective function are integral , the objective function value of any feasible solution of problem 8 is integral and not greater than 192 .
20 Both Simon and Bladud have fatal attempts at flight , black magic and heresy in common , and it is easy to see that the two stories could have become confused .
21 It is easy to see that all work represents a fight against something , an attack upon the environment .
22 At the same time it is easy to see that group solidarity overrides all other loyalties and motives .
23 But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent .
24 When taken with the latitude allowed by the instruction to ‘ operate in the public interest ’ , it is easy to see that , with such imprecise targets , it was bound to be extremely difficult to assess the performance of nationalised industries .
25 When one notes that Jaguar 's pre-tax profits for the first half of 1989 had slumped to £1.4 million , it is easy to see that a company valuation of £1.6 billion might be considered rather high .
26 It is easy to see that would-be DIY funeral undertakers would be as welcome as a swarm of greenfly at the Chelsea flower show .
27 It is easy to see that it is intended to be consistent .
28 For those unions organised on a comprehensive , industrial basis it is easy to see that they would be likely to seek bargaining arrangements founded upon the extent of the product market .
29 Given these assertions , it is easy to see that one reason for the neglect of Freud by sociologists , especially in Britain and to a lesser extent in the United States , is as much due to the fact that intellectual fashions have changed as to anything intrinsic to Freud 's theory .
30 It is easy to see that at high prices consumers will only want to consume small quantities , while a fall in price will mean that demand increases .
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