Example sentences of "easy [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is easy to see why Elizabeth feels this way , and needs a lot of tact and patience to cope with what she perceives as her husband 's unreasonable childishness .
2 It was easy to see why Iris found the man so attractive .
3 UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great .
4 Currently Jonathan has clients from Dubai , Venezuela , Hong Kong and Miami , as well as the British-based , on his books , and a tour around the little harbours of Looe , Fowey and St Mawes with fishing boats bobbing in the deep blue waters , or a ride through the tiny villages on high-banked , well-surfaced , empty country roads , makes it easy to see why Cornwall and East Devon are prime targets for relocation .
5 It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up .
6 It was easy to see why Rose found him so attractive ; whether he cared for her was another matter and nothing to do with Melissa or her present mission .
7 However , it was easy to see why Marr was so keen on ‘ Big Mouth Strikes Again ’ .
8 It 's easy to see why developers believe that Microsoft has an unfair advantage over its competitors because it produces both the GUI and the software that runs on it .
9 It 's easy to see why guests return to the Seewinkel year after year .
10 It 's easy to see why Reitzle was impressed .
11 All slimming diets which can possibly work are based on calorie reduction , but it is easy to see why people become confused about this .
12 It is easy to see why Mr Smith has decided not to target investment income .
13 There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders .
14 It is easy to see why Richard Strauss admired him so much : there is not only the immense natural craftsmanship , but an ease of invention comparable to his own and indeed in one or two places containing suggestions of some of his own harmonic manner .
15 In narrow spaces like these it is easy to see why Prague Baroque had to be more dramatic with a greater sense of movement , light and shade than its Viennese equivalent .
16 It is easy to see why Kripke 's interpretation is called ‘ the community interpretation ’ .
17 Add to that the probability of either Britain 's first black Tory MP , or the first Liberal Democrat gain of election night and it 's easy to see why Cheltenham has grabbed the imagination of the political pundits .
18 Ahead , it was easy to see where Eochaid and the five hundred horsemen had already passed , leaving churned earth and dung on either side of the cart-wide stones of the road .
19 When raindrops are lying it is easy to see where grass has recently been crossed .
20 It 's quite easy to see where clichés come from .
21 It is easy to see how Kenneth Grahame , the author of Wind in the Willows , was inspired by the area .
22 Provided that the above rules of base pairing are guaranteed by the laws of chemistry , it is easy to see how replication gives rise to two daughter molecules identical to the original one .
23 In terms of plate tectonics it is easy to see how regressions can be explained by continental collisions , mountain building and the resultant displacement of water ( figure 8.2 ) .
24 It 's easy to see how Baker makes out on the airwaves .
25 Conversely , it is easy to see how Blanche brings her problems on herself .
26 If retirement does not inevitably involve economic dependency , then it is easy to see how retirement may result from a positive choice by those people who believe they will not suffer any substantially reduced ability to consume .
27 It is easy to see how fertility has been kept low since the middle of the twentieth century , and how the control over its timing given by contraception could permit a new pattern of fertility fluctuation .
28 Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development .
29 The wrecker explains that , one way or another , ‘ it 's not easy to pull down monuments ’ .
30 It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean .
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