Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] sit easily " in BNC.

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1 Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women .
2 A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years .
3 Being the world 's No 1 in the Sony rankings did not sit easily on Woosnam 's shoulders .
4 But these requirements do not sit easily with the generous philosophy of the DES booklet .
5 Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman .
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