Example sentences of "is easy [verb] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! ! |
| 9 | The Isle of Arran is easy to reach from the mainland in summer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Reading this description , it is easy to focus on the element of inspiration , of an idea seemingly springing fully blown , from nowhere . |
| 18 | It is easy to walk through the Cairns doorway , hand over your money , and go diving a couple of days later . |
| 19 | It is easy to walk down the road and to be thinking of something else completely . |
| 20 | It is easy to walk from the perimeter to the town centre and easier still to cycle . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is easy to find from the stars Chi ( 4.7 ) and Phi ( 5.0 ) , which make up a small triangle with Delta and are in the same × 20 field with it . |
| 23 | Many babies are perfectly happy with an old washing-up bowl filled with water , but a simple inflatable paddling pool is easy to find in the shops and generally fairly cheap . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is easy to understand for the river dolphins , which feed on individual prey on the river bottom , but the habits of beaked whales remain almost a total mystery . |
| 27 | When discussing the genetics of a trait , it is easiest to think of the trait as constant within an individual . |
| 28 | It is easiest to think of the sound source as motionless and the listener as moving . |