Example sentences of "is easy [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 The butterfly is easier to seduce with a wealth of plants such as the sweet scented hyssopus , with its charming flower spikes and small aromatic leaves .
4 It is easier to reconcile with the profit and loss account
5 In addition , some parents may find that it is easier to cope with a child who has a serious language problem if they are able to participate in the process of assessment and intervention .
6 It is easier to fall into a pit than to get out again , and the prospects in Sri Lanka are grim .
7 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 .
8 A laser produces a beam which is easier to focus into a monomode fibre because its light does not spread in frequency as much as a LED .
9 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 .
10 Another small club at Warkworth , its airfield right out in the country , is easier to find from the air than by road .
11 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 .
12 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 ! !
13 The Isle of Arran is easy to reach from the mainland in summer .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 With hindsight it is easy to see in an author 's uneven early work the later masterpieces struggling to get out , and it is especially tempting to do this with an author such as Christine Brooke-Rose whose fiction underwent such a dramatic change between 1961 and 1964 .
18 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 .
19 It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’
20 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 . ’
21 ( Although theoretically it is easy to distinguish between a merger and a takeover , in practice it is less so and the words are generally used interchangeably . )
22 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 .
23 Reading this description , it is easy to focus on the element of inspiration , of an idea seemingly springing fully blown , from nowhere .
24 It is easy to walk down the road and to be thinking of something else completely .
25 It is easy to walk from the perimeter to the town centre and easier still to cycle .
26 This combination gives me more than sufficient choice of tonal colour to match the different kinds of music and is easy to adjust during the service .
27 It is easy to care for a friend , but what happens when our ‘ friend ’ is not acting friendly ?
28 The noise of a Thompson when fired is unmistakable and its large .45 calibre bullet is easy to identify after a shooting .
29 A serial/parallel drive is easy to fit in the sense that you do n't have to open the case but there is still the software side of the installation to consider .
30 It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do .
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