Example sentences of "it easy [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 2 | The slightly more manageable numbers in each service make it easier to spot visitors and relate to one another . |
| 3 | As they are used single-handed , they make it easier to dead-head flowers , prune shrubs , cut up chicken for the barbecue , and shape materials like leather , canvas , etc , for craftwork . |
| 4 | This followed the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , which made it easier to move funds between financial centres in different countries . |
| 5 | It has been observed , for example , that British firms find it easier to persuade workers to accept redundancies but harder to obtain flexibility of working practices and job demarcations than do their French counterparts . |
| 6 | Lecturers , especially scientists , find it easier to teach students who have already specialised in their chosen subjects for two years . |
| 7 | Some viewfinders are built solidly into the camcorder body while others are adjustable to make it easier to take shots at awkward angles . |
| 8 | On the positive side , I would argue that these devices may make it easier to withstand setbacks , to hold on to a belief in ultimate victory when times are hard , because they all underline the continuities of racial oppression . |
| 9 | To make it easier to obtain sub-trees , the children of any node i ( the nodes j for which P(j) = i ) can be listed . |
| 10 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 11 | For this new pill to be of real help , we need a change in the law , making it easier to get abortions . |
| 12 | It can make it easier to place pupils for Work Experience , to find partners from industry for curriculum development or advisers for Mini-Enterprise . |
| 13 | Would a single currency or an EC-run economy make it easier to buy goods and financial services abroad ? |
| 14 | Cross-stitch can be worked either on evenweave fabric — woven with single threads ; Hardanger fabric — woven with double weft and warp threads ( horizontal and vertical threads ) ; or Aida — woven in blocks of threads which makes it easier to count holes and therefore suitable for beginners . |
| 15 | The difficult issue is how far this movement should be taken : changes which make it easier to convict men of sexual assault on women , or parents of the sexual abuse of children , can not be welcomed unless one has a clear conception of the rights of defendants as well as the rights of victims . |
| 16 | But the Tories have found it easier to reform providers of ‘ hard ’ products and resources ( industry , energy ) than providers of ‘ soft ’ services ( health , education ) . |
| 17 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 18 | When the fabric is up , these battens can be felt through the fabric , making it easy to fix nails and picture hooks to them . |
| 19 | Japanese collectors find it easy to appreciate prints , because works on paper are very much part of their own cultural heritage . |
| 20 | That measure is not considered controversial on either side of the House ; my party finds it easy to support ballots . |
| 21 | Because of this , they do n't find it easy to make friends and are very difficult to get on with . |
| 22 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 23 | At school he had always found it easy to get women . |
| 24 | Governments would find it easy to cut taxes and unbalance the budget when unemployment was rising , but there would be a lot of resistance to raising taxes to create a surplus of revenue when prosperous times returned . |
| 25 | Nor will a network of single-purpose bodies find it easy to co-ordinate services either with one another or with the services of the districts or boroughs . |
| 26 | Each Red Panda has a different pattern , making it easy to identify individuals . |
| 27 | A choppy texturising cutting technique makes it easy to change styles from casual to dramatic |
| 28 | As a result , the people whose financial position makes it easiest to pay bills actually get the lowest-cost credit . |