Example sentences of "is easy [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is easier to close exits from there areas than to safeguard all the areas intended for their bombs , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ( For this reason it is easier to draw women after one has loved them . |
| 3 | Take , by way of comparison , the fiscal system : even here , as in all human affairs , it is easier to leave things alone than to alter them . |
| 4 | The justification given could be that it is easier to control girls than boys , and therefore the ‘ stronger ’ teachers should be given the more difficult classes , i.e. the boys ' classes . |
| 5 | There will always be conflict in people 's perception of proper animal care , but it is easier to set standards for handling domesticated animals than for exploiting wild ones . |
| 6 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 7 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 8 | Now , though , it is easier to implement efficiencies . |
| 9 | Lorne excuses his monocle on the grounds that , being astigmatic in one eye and myopic in the other , he needs but one lens to neutralize the problem and that one lens is harder to break than glasses and it is easier to carry spares . |
| 10 | Now with the accent much more on playing the rhythm , it is easier to create movements without the fear of what to play on the piano but it is not an easy task to find suitable taped music to enhance the carrying quality . |
| 11 | Since telephone conversations are usually confined to you and just one other person , not a group of people , it is easier to take initiatives and control the conversation . |
| 12 | GIST had more success in altering children 's attitudes than their subject choices , suggesting that it is easier to change attitudes and beliefs than actual behaviour . |
| 13 | Admittedly the examples all relate to men , since it is easier to imagine ways in which a male may lose the ‘ capacity ’ for intercourse but what is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander . |
| 14 | In this kind of evaluation of change over time , it is argued that it is easier to attribute changes directly to the planned intervention , since it is unlikely that other experiences to which the child might be exposed would produce the same pattern of differential progress across different aspects of language . |
| 15 | Groups of up to about eight allow an atmosphere in which it is easier to share views , and to ensure that group members can get to know each other . |
| 16 | And in the Lorenz equations , it is easier to make connections between apparently unrelated things than in less well known , less well studied and less well understood systems . |
| 17 | The quite different nature of the female labour market means that it is easier to introduce measures in schools and colleges which will improve the initial occupational choices of some female students , particularly middle class or ‘ academically able ’ girls . |
| 18 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 19 | It is easier to win elections if the economy is growing rapidly — a government can cope with any resulting inflation after the election ! |
| 20 | Despite the introduction of the Local Government ( Water Pollution ) Act 1977 , which gave water authorities clear responsibilities , it is easier to prosecute polluters under long-standing fisheries legislation . |
| 21 | It is easier to combine formats after typing in text than before . |
| 22 | This is because , owing to the existence of what Paul Willis calls the ‘ objective possibilities ’ ( and limitations ) of material and ideological structures , it is easier to find links and analogies between them in some cases than in others ( Willis 1978 : 198–201 ) . |
| 23 | Do you think it is easier to understand parables or allegories ? |
| 24 | It is easy to stop squabbles and arguments in the interests of peace and harmony , yet to do so often prevents us from observing significant behaviour which can give the counsellor invaluable insight into how older people think and feel about themselves , other people and their situation . |
| 25 | They are cheap and it is easy to carry spares . |
| 26 | Filing cabinets should not take up too much floor space and be sited so that it is easy to open drawers and get at records . |
| 27 | Although it is easy to dismiss meetings as time wasters , the above indicates why you should take them seriously . |
| 28 | The passion to tell it as it strikes us , yet , if we are honest , in the knowledge that we are only passing through and it is easy to manipulate images having moved on . |
| 29 | It is easy to slide tiles around and find they are back in some position they were in before . |
| 30 | It is easy to give examples where individual outsiders benefit from the activity of insiders ; the fact remains that the expected rate of return to outsiders on stock market investments ( even to the large institutional investors such as pensions funds and mutual funds ) is lowered by insider dealing . |