Example sentences of "[adv] easily [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it 's a feminine trait that women are , on the whole , far erm less easily aroused into combat . |
| 2 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 3 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 4 | If people were no longer so easily frightened into docility , new ways would have to be found to make them ductile . |
| 5 | In passing judgement on these crucial issues the historian is so easily blinkered by hindsight . |
| 6 | But most of the mealtime was spent with her either backing away from his leading philandering comments , or racking her brain to think of some comments or questions of her own — other than those that so easily sprang to mind , but which all centred around his employer . |
| 7 | Why bother , when we could so easily pay in cash ? |
| 8 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 9 | Do not pile up plates or saucepans higgledy - piggledy on a high shelf , where they can so easily fall on top of you when you reach up for something . |
| 10 | Men are not quite so easily put off sex . |
| 11 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 12 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 13 | Early mouse embryos and their component cells are most easily manipulated during fixation and immunocytological staining if stuck down to coverslips . |
| 14 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 15 | Petrological observations show excess feldspar in many basaltic lavas which is most easily explained by crystal settling . |
| 16 | Brown and white , with long yellow legs ; most easily recognised in flight , which reveals pure white rump and tail and strikingly black and white wing pattern . |
| 17 | Should you wish to discuss this with me I may be most easily reached via telephone . |
| 18 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 19 | Ruth Elliott as Catherine , Dr Austin Sloper 's daughter , was not easily fooled by suitor Morris Townsend , played by Gerard McMullan , whose presentation was virtually perfect . |
| 20 | It is important to note that , in any given society , mating patterns are not easily manipulated by policy and edicts , but change in response to education , socio-cultural processes and aspects of development . |
| 21 | HIV is not easily transmitted from person to person except by ‘ high risk ’ activity . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the delicacy of these splendid watercolours is not easily communicated in reproduction : the combine structural rigour with a sensuous lapping of colour . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the delicacy of these splendid watercolours is not easily communicated in reproduction : the combine structural rigour with a sensuous lapping of colour . |
| 24 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |
| 25 | Even so , that mixture of emotion and social need , of personal pride and territorial inspiration , which we call honour , is not easily brought to life for young readers . |
| 26 | HIV is not easily passed from person to person . |
| 27 | it is not easily angered over mud on the floor , |
| 28 | In Hippolyte , independent wind parts in the famous Tonnerre ( Act I scene 4 ) and the enharmonic Trio des Parques ( Act 2 scene 5 ) are wholly editorial ; so are the added oboe lines not easily negotiated on Baroque instruments at the entry of Diana ( Act 1 scene 5 ) and the woodwind in a number of the choruses ( e.g. ‘ Pluton commande ’ , Act 2 scene 3 ) . |
| 29 | Because of a steep flight of steps this is not easily negotiated by bicycle . |
| 30 | Also , it does not easily take into consideration key interests in housing such as absentee landlords letting as a business . |