Example sentences of "[adv] easily [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he grows older he is naturally nearer to the world outside school ; he is ready to demand a good reason for doing whatever he is asked to do ; and he is extremely easily distracted by the problems and dramas of his own life and hard times . |
| 2 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 3 | The third lighting problem — ie excessive lighting — is less easily resolved by individuals particularly if switches serve too many light fittings . |
| 4 | I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils . |
| 5 | ‘ No other part of the body can be so easily damaged by ill-fitting clothing as young feet . |
| 6 | And how would such an affixation cope with the evident fact that the techniques , modes of expression and performers claimed by the counterculture as their own were apparently so easily appropriated by the established music industry interests , and the music spread into every social corner and function ? |
| 7 | It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch . |
| 8 | In passing judgement on these crucial issues the historian is so easily blinkered by hindsight . |
| 9 | Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors . |
| 10 | We are not so easily fooled by reflections in lakes or puddles . |
| 11 | In our cynical era , we might not be so easily bamboozled by ‘ the prophet 's ’ assertion that God , who is presumably on permanent nightshift , speaks to him in his sleep and has commanded the supply of seven frails . |
| 12 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |
| 13 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 14 | Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre . |
| 15 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 16 | But the structures of inference involved are not so easily captured by the dualistic thinking spoken of earlier . |
| 17 | Those activities were so evidently a waste of spirit that Louisa had never understood how men were so easily lured by them . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a very serious matter that the packaging of a reputable product can be so easily acquired by unscrupulous and criminally insane cheats , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 20 | Similarly , we need to ask : what kind of music is most easily understood by the visitor ? |
| 21 | The reason why males usually compete more intensely is most easily understood by considering the energetic costs of reproduction to each sex . |
| 22 | But there is another , perhaps rather less obvious , reason to avoid candid recording which is associated with the subject 's self-image and is most easily understood by continuing to draw a parallel with photography . |
| 23 | Trambone is in the key of C and the main theme ( repeated in bars 1 to 8 and 18 to 25 ) is most easily played by sticking with the simple chord shapes of C , Am , F and G , which I have diagrammed below . |
| 24 | Perhaps with their greater freedom they are most easily blinded by the options and may forget to take account of the special needs of those who live alone . |
| 25 | Ibbeth Peril is most easily visited by continuing along the road from Gibb 's Hall until the dense screen of trees on the right ends at a large open space used by the highway authority for the storage of grit ; here is accommodation for several cars . |
| 26 | First , that wise choices about health are most easily made by people who feel good about themselves and are able to talk to their partners . |
| 27 | [ Mond is said to have complained , away back in the 1880s , that his company was n't concentrating on chemistry any more but on making money , a complaint perhaps most easily made by those who have already acquired as much money as they can reasonable need . ] |
| 28 | This can be most easily achieved by an observer who is present while the recording is being made and who can make a full transcription within a few hours . |
| 29 | This is most easily seen by drawing a picture like Figure 11 . |
| 30 | This is most easily done by having the students ask appropriate questions and become familiar with the answers that are most likely to be given . |