Example sentences of "is easy [verb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The pump is easy to spot as the handle is green . |
| 5 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 6 | It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau . |
| 7 | It is easy to say that the years of Unionist rule were a travesty of what democracy is , or ought to be . |
| 8 | In many cases it is easy to demonstrate that the tonic stress is placed on the word that is in some sense the ‘ most important ’ , as in : She went to Scotland |
| 9 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 10 | It is easy to forget that the Lutyens team of craftsmen only had access to traditional methods and materials . |
| 11 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 12 | It is easy to forget that the majority of those who work in agriculture are neither landowners nor farmers but farm workers . |
| 13 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | At first it is easy to believe that the child is engaged in an equal dialogue with a machine intelligence , so apposite are some of the replies . |
| 15 | The control layout is easy to understand and the tape transport system is microprocessor controlled to aid stability — it 's one of the best around I think . |