Example sentences of "it was easy " in BNC.
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| 1 | The masons were busy with their mallets and chisels inside a makeshift hut on the site and it was easy to talk to them privately . |
| 2 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 3 | It was easy to stand back and view what had been accomplished , decide what had to be done and move straight in again with the view fresh in memory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was easy to anticipate that respondents would be sensitive about such matters , and it was our general tolerance of such fears that continually led us to try to pacify and reassure respondents . |
| 6 | It is clear from the conversation that there was sympathy for the person involved because it was easy for them to place themselves in that position , allowing the event to be normalized . |
| 7 | It was easy to get the name of brains in those days . ’ |
| 8 | Soon she was leaving and it was easy for him to be charming . |
| 9 | It was easy , really , getting out of there — it was just I was confused by it being dark and that . |
| 10 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 11 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 12 | In times gone by , there were always lots of hedge trimmings available at the beginning of November , and it was easy to make a bonfire — with a big family you want a big bonfire . |
| 13 | I thought anonymity was easy : it was easy to be a simple , nodding individual who got on the bus . |
| 14 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |
| 15 | It was easy to make fun of , and it was no wonder that Conservative Central Office had a field day , distributing a compilation of green policy statements , including the unrealistic ones on replacing the EC with a ‘ loose federation of ecological countries ’ and disengaging Britain from the international money market . |
| 16 | It was easy to become mesmerized by the size of the budget , but when you looked at it in detail you found that almost half went on pensions and other payments to the elderly ; that 20 per cent went to families with children ; 17 per cent went to the unemployed ; and that 13 per cent went to the sick and disabled . |
| 17 | It was easy for journalists to get jobs as copywriters . |
| 18 | She had several artist friends who invited her and it was easy enough to crash into other ones if you knew when and where . |
| 19 | But after that , life began again and it was easy to feel full of courage and cheerfulness . |
| 20 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 21 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 22 | It was easy to see that in reality the tables were old and stained with coffee rings , the seats cheap and plastic , the magazines tatty and two years out of date , and the strange , tropical foliage too glossily green and perfect not to be artificial . |
| 23 | Given the hypothetical choice — none had faced it for real — three dog owners at City Road said it was easy . |
| 24 | It was easy to spot others like her . |
| 25 | They were contemptible , and therefore it was easy for governments to squeeze them . |
| 26 | It was easy to keep promising that some sun and heat would work its usual miracle but it had been a hard , cold winter and almost everyone had suffered from influenza , Mrs Browning worst of all . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , in the late 1970s it was easy to see the divisions of Zuwaya into sections and lineages reflected in the street map of Ajdabiya , much as the oases of Kufra or Tazarbu were subdivided into tribal territories . |
| 28 | It was easy at Shellerton House to get by without any . |
| 29 | It was easy to burn Haddington , a substantial town south of Edinburgh ( and birthplace of John Knox ) ; at Dunbar , the inhabitants were trapped inside the town and burned with it . |
| 30 | It was easy to imagine how the tiny volume might have been overlooked , more difficult to conceive that it was half a millennium old . |