Example sentences of "it was easier [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what he meant was that it was easier on the man . |
| 2 | It was easier for her than for many , for she had always lived in two kitchens , under the different and Indifferent ministrations of two cooks . |
| 3 | Others were treated as aliens , although in practice it was easier for CUKCs to emigrate to Britain than other foreigners for purposes of family reunion . |
| 4 | It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions . |
| 5 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 6 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 7 | It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) . |
| 8 | It was easier for him to decide what was not true . |
| 9 | It is probable that Germany was less wealthy than England in comparison to its size , and that it was easier for Henry I to recruit an army of mercenaries than for Henry V. For whatever reason , the contrast outlived our period . |
| 10 | ‘ It was easier for the press to write ‘ Brat Pack ’ than to write Tom , or Matthew , or Rob or whoever . |
| 11 | It was easier for workers and their organisations to accept private property and industrial capitalism where economic inequity was not compounded by apparently hopeless social stratification . |
| 12 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 13 | OMG figures it was easier for Next to join the organisation than to continue to explain why it was n't a member . |
| 14 | Our question was whether it was easier for Protestant than for Catholic scholars to embrace the new system . |
| 15 | Although we were terrified that they would find where we had hidden our film equipment , it was easier for us than for our crewmates to express our anger , and we blustered the officials off the ship . |
| 16 | It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies . |
| 17 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 18 | It was easier for her to see Chris now . |
| 19 | It was easier for the man that came round with the Cooperative lorry to just take tokens |
| 20 | It was easier for the predator to keep its eye on them : in the normal school the predator is visually confused . |
| 21 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 22 | It was easier for me — with my work and other interests the days were fully occupied . |
| 23 | For various reasons , intellectual , historical and sexual , it was easier for her to accept things as they were than for Peter . |
| 24 | At times we spoke German , it was easier for them . ’ |
| 25 | But my mother came first is n't it and it was easier for me . |
| 26 | It was easier for this head to talk about methods of producing unity than about the ideals behind it . |
| 27 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 28 | It was easier for a woman . |
| 29 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 30 | It was easier for him to come to me . ’ |