Example sentences of "[adv] easily [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors .
2 I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils .
3 It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch .
4 Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman .
5 Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre .
6 The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession .
7 Similarly , we need to ask : what kind of music is most easily understood by the visitor ?
8 This can be most easily achieved by an observer who is present while the recording is being made and who can make a full transcription within a few hours .
9 As with any legal document , a record contract contains clauses and phrases which are not easily understood by the layman .
10 Today , jury trials are out of fashion , because censorship of the media is more easily achieved by an injunction , granted by a judge sitting in secret , or by a directive from a regulatory body like the Independent Broadcasting Authority , or by the decision of a magistrates ' court .
11 Yesterday , Mr Pignatelli reported that Mr McNeill said he had oversimplified ‘ the very complex matter of possible factors affecting the occurrence of handicap ’ to make it more easily understood by the public .
12 Setting the scene and capturing attention are more easily assisted by a computer program than the other aims .
13 Divers in a bell are more easily controlled by the supervisor .
14 At first sight , the location of protest sub stantially among Romania 's alien ated Hungarian minority suggests that it may be more easily confined by the leadership in Bucharest .
15 Their greater height posed no problem for spore dispersal : if anything , it was a help since up in the tree tops , spores were more easily caught by the wind and carried away .
16 I sought to prove that , if an aerodrome or transport park was the objective of an operation , then the destruction of 50 aircraft or units of transport was more easily accomplished by a sub-unit of five men than by a force of 200 men .
17 However the courts are often reluctant to grant injunctions against the use of information where such information could have been relatively easily acquired by the defendant through his own legitimate efforts ( see Seager v Copydex Ltd and Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd ) .
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