Example sentences of "[conj] it be easy [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is easy to dismiss meetings as time wasters , the above indicates why you should take them seriously . |
| 2 | The Ober Gabelhorn-Wellenkuppe traverse , the most frequented route up the mountain , is a very traditional climb , the kind of route that it 's easy to imagine Victorians accompanied by their Swiss guides tackling : balancing along the snow arête , confronting the Grand Gendarme and cutting steps up the steep summit ridge . |
| 3 | Both pan supports are also vitreous enamelled , and designed so that it 's easier to slide pans over them . |
| 4 | And so I think that it 's easier to make criticisms of small matters in detail , but it is not easier to make a serious defence cut . |
| 5 | Filing cabinets should not take up too much floor space and be sited so that it is easy to open drawers and get at records . |
| 6 | He reminds us that it is easy to make mistakes with footprints : a few years ago , he said when reviewing a recent book on dinosaur tracks for an educational journal , a track appearing to show long , very fast strides consisted in reality of left footprints only , so the real stride length was only half the apparent one . |
| 7 | DataPrism is able to understand the relationships between tables , which means that it is easy to build queries . |
| 8 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 9 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 10 | The justification given could be that it is easier to control girls than boys , and therefore the ‘ stronger ’ teachers should be given the more difficult classes , i.e. the boys ' classes . |
| 11 | The quite different nature of the female labour market means that it is easier to introduce measures in schools and colleges which will improve the initial occupational choices of some female students , particularly middle class or ‘ academically able ’ girls . |
| 12 | GIST had more success in altering children 's attitudes than their subject choices , suggesting that it is easier to change attitudes and beliefs than actual behaviour . |
| 13 | In this kind of evaluation of change over time , it is argued that it is easier to attribute changes directly to the planned intervention , since it is unlikely that other experiences to which the child might be exposed would produce the same pattern of differential progress across different aspects of language . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 16 | Personally run by the Ludovici family , here there are just 30 rooms so it is easy to provide guests with an individual and attentive service . |
| 17 | Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated . |
| 18 | Planning a path on paper before you build gives an idea of the shapes and patterns you can create with the materials available to you — and it 's easier to correct mistakes on paper than on the real thing ! |
| 19 | They are cheap and it is easy to carry spares . |
| 20 | The passion to tell it as it strikes us , yet , if we are honest , in the knowledge that we are only passing through and it is easy to manipulate images having moved on . |
| 21 | It is uniquely wide in its applicability : every molecular or covalently bonded sample has some form of vibrational spectrum , and it is easy to study gases , liquids , solids and solutions . |
| 22 | Lorne excuses his monocle on the grounds that , being astigmatic in one eye and myopic in the other , he needs but one lens to neutralize the problem and that one lens is harder to break than glasses and it is easier to carry spares . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's my own fault — there were times when there was no real leadership in the county and it was easy to let things slip . ’ |
| 24 | There will always be conflict in people 's perception of proper animal care , but it is easier to set standards for handling domesticated animals than for exploiting wild ones . |
| 25 | Seb told himself he really did intend calling at the cottage to see Anna , but it was easy to make excuses to put off such a visit . |
| 26 | It is invaluable to make notes on your inner journeys , since it is easy to forget insights and action plans unless you write them down . |
| 27 | Admittedly the examples all relate to men , since it is easier to imagine ways in which a male may lose the ‘ capacity ’ for intercourse but what is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander . |
| 28 | However , whilst it is easy to criticize teachers for failing to embark on a thorough and methodical appraisal of their practice it should be remembered that the LEA scheme was introduced to them initially very much in terms of accountability rather than professional development , and for this reason some caution over what to reveal in the self-appraisal document is understandable . |
| 29 | That could work — though it is easy to imagine conflicts of interest with the housing and planning functions of the department . |
| 30 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |