Example sentences of "[adv] easy to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , may I suggest , much easier to say goodbye to a face than to a wooden box . |
| 2 | An environmental change can ease this : it is much easier to say that you do n't have any sweets in the house than to say ‘ no ’ to a child who knows that they are in the cupboard . |
| 3 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
| 4 | Perhaps ‘ Thank you ’ and ‘ Sorry ’ , so easy to say to a stranger , are two of the most difficult words to say to our nearest and dearest . |
| 5 | I missed you is so easy to say . |
| 6 | It would be so easy to say yes to everything he was asking of her ; she would n't have his love but she would have his arms round her all through the nights that , from now on , promised to be lonely . |
| 7 | ‘ It was so easy to say I wanted to go to Australia , without really knowing what he meant . ’ |
| 8 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 9 | It 's not easy to say what the narrating ‘ I ’ is doing at such a scene . |
| 10 | Though Ciullo by Rossetti 's reckoning composed the poem in the 1170s , at least twenty years before Frederick Hohenstaufen came to the throne of Sicily , Pound in The Spirit of Romance juxtaposes the two names , presumably as ‘ an instigation ’ — though to what , it is not easy to say . |
| 11 | It is also not easy to say where social security begins and taxation ends . |
| 12 | It 's not easy to say when I 'll stop entirely ; who knows , maybe three , four or five years ’ time ? |
| 13 | As Merton ( 1957 : 141 ) sees some corporate misbehaviour , ‘ it is not easy to say whether it is an instance of praiseworthy salesmanship or a penitentiary offence ’ . |
| 14 | This is not straightforward , It is not easy to say what the permanent " employment relationship is with which the " temporary " one is to be contrasted ? |
| 15 | The two different versions ( high and low head ) will usually sound slightly different to English listeners , though it it not easy to say just what the difference is , as will be made clear in the next chapter . |
| 16 | It was always easier to say what such a school should not be , rather than what it should be . |
| 17 | It is always easier to say " no " than to say " yes " . |
| 18 | The suspense novel stops short of the pure thriller , a kind of writing that falls outside the scope of this book , but it is not always easy to say just where the line should be drawn . |
| 19 | Sometimes it is slightly easier to say ‘ No ’ over the telephone , but face to face many women find it impossible . |
| 20 | It 's it 's probably easier to say what it does n't provide for . |
| 21 | The difficulty of expressing what we think adequately in matters concerned with assumptions and beliefs means that it is often easier to say what we do not agree with than what we do . |
| 22 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |
| 23 | But , you know , when you explain these concepts to the people who are part of that committee , or they are the chairman of that committee — it 's very easy to say , ‘ Yeah , that other committee is really bad . |
| 24 | It 's very easy to say that |
| 25 | ‘ But then , ’ she said , ‘ when you try to think what it is you 've got hold of , it 's not very easy to say . ’ |
| 26 | All very easy to say , but human nature being what it was , and her own curiosity playing a very large part of it , not so easy to do . |
| 27 | Yeah I mean I 'm not being cynical but that 's very easy to say . |
| 28 | I mean it , it would be very easy to say that basically you know I do n't know , the , the poor peasants banding around all peasants , you know Mao saw them and knew that this was where the , the core of erm the revolution |
| 29 | And we have to confess Lord that , words are very easy to say and to sing |
| 30 | I do think it 's very easy to say that sums of money are not financially significant . |