Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] easy [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This simple question is rather less easy to answer . |
| 2 | It is rather less easy to see how it would lead to interference effects like those described in Chapter 4 . |
| 3 | ‘ In general , I think it 's slightly unfair when you 've got someone who 's considered a virtuoso player such as Mark King — he 's obviously very talented , but his basses are so incredibly easy to play that it seems a bit of a cheat to me . |
| 4 | Here , the question of what constitutes useful linguistic support for the child is much less easy to answer . |
| 5 | But Conservative MPs are much less easy to classify , they have fewer dogmatic positions to maintain and their criticisms of their own party 's policies are therefore much less easy to dismiss in this way . |
| 6 | For example , although it is easy enough to decide which vowel one hears in ‘ beat ’ or ‘ bit ’ , it is much less easy to decide which vowel one hears in the second syllable of words such as , for example , ‘ easy ’ or ‘ busy ’ . |
| 7 | While we might make this general point and follow through its implications when we want to compare , for example , Braniel people with Ballymacarrett people , it is much less easy to see how the relatively looseknit network structures of Braniel people might meaningfully be compared with each other . |
| 8 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 9 | always keep a special look out for cyclists particularly when overtaking or turning , bearing in mind that two wheels are much less easy to see than large vehicles . |
| 10 | But Conservative MPs are much less easy to classify , they have fewer dogmatic positions to maintain and their criticisms of their own party 's policies are therefore much less easy to dismiss in this way . |
| 11 | The importance of this is that word-of-mouth information from shop assistants , salesmen and agents seems more influential for consumers than what is written into credit notices and contracts — but of course much less easy to regulate . |
| 12 | Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children 's books . |
| 13 | Two are more difficult , because in the first the jurist uses the substantive legatum , which it is much less easy to take to refer to a trust ; and in the second what is involved is a legacy per praeceptionem . |
| 14 | Here , it proved much less easy to bulldoze the problem aside . |
| 15 | They may alter the predicted times of high or low water by up to one hour , but the effects are much less easy to quantify as winds are very variable and are strongly influenced by the topography of the local area . |
| 16 | When there is a different purse and a different bureaucratic structure , it is much less easy to have the sort of fruitful relationship that exists between , for example , St. Kentigern 's school at Blackburn and the Oatridge agricultural college . |
| 17 | Other social roles within the Rowdies group were much less easy to isolate . |
| 18 | They involve higher derivatives and are therefore somewhat less easy to apply than the Alfrey approximation . |
| 19 | It is perhaps less easy to see how someone from a privileged background can be led to seek emptiness as a physical state , when it is obviously such an unpleasant , even painful , one . |
| 20 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 21 | AEG has taken a fairly established design of router , and fine-tuned it to become a much more easy to use machine than the Bosch . |
| 22 | The SeHCAT test has made intestinal bile acid malabsorption much more easy to detect . |
| 23 | The first , though the answer may sometimes be complicated , is much more easy to deal with than the second , because in one case one is dealing with fact and in the other with personal preference and feeling , which are unpredictable and difficult to justify to the determinedly sceptical . |
| 24 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 25 | ( It is only too easy to drill the holes slightly too deep , leaving tell-tale ‘ points ’ on the surface of the finished sculpture ) . |
| 26 | As it was only too easy to do . |
| 27 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 28 | ‘ Only too easy to lounge about all day enjoying yourself , I realize that . |
| 29 | It is only too easy to create a ‘ yes man ’ climate which will help neither you nor your subordinate . |
| 30 | It is only too easy to remember those occasions when resentful words or cold behaviour spoilt the relationship . |