Example sentences of "it [is] easy [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science .
2 It 's easy to see this as simply one more case of the thought-police at work , on a par with Lambeth 's ban on Midnight Circus and some of the ridiculous cases cited by PEN , but Biggles actually illustrates just how complex this issue is .
3 The disadvantage of using these troops in this way is that they are very expensive , and it 's easy to lose such a small unit to a hit from a war machine or good archery .
4 If you drink in a party with lots of other people , it 's easy to drink more than you planned .
5 It 's easy to say that , lad .
6 Sailing is a natural mixer , and in the relaxed atmosphere of our holidays it 's easy to make many friends .
7 It 's easy to romanticize this basically squalid lifestyle and the repression is bound to slow down development .
8 It 's easy to convert any one to any other .
9 It 's easy to enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then cal our 24 hour hotline and be ready to leave your answers , name , address and daytime telephone number .
10 Stunned by Hartmann 's catalogue of crimes committed in the name of ‘ family planning ’ , it 's easy to forget such people exist .
11 I thought the top would never come , but then it 's easy to forget this mountain is nearly 4,000 feet .
12 Because it 's easier to treat both dogs as one unit , we fail to recognise that the second dog is n't getting the chance to develop its own character .
13 and er and i it 's easier to do that er sort of , I mean certainly you , you , you were very forthcoming
14 you know , I just put it on the table and left it there and as I say it 's certainly better to because when you 're looking like then it 's easier do that .
15 It is easy to labour this point , but I have seen far too many advertising briefs which put marketing objectives ( like ‘ to increase our share of the market by 5 per cent ’ ) into the advertising objectives , or even the advertising strategy .
16 It is easy to do this in your own country .
17 While you are on the roof there is so much to look at that it is easy to miss some important feature .
18 In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ .
19 Just as the provision of work is not generally regarded by health and social service staff as their responsibility , so too it is easy to ignore those social aspects of life which mentally robust people organize so effectively for themselves .
20 It is easy to mistake these for direct effects of the allergy itself , so it is important to be aware of the possible effects of particular drugs .
21 On my board , it is easy to put this on and remove it , so the girls do not ruin it for me !
22 It is easy to see that tree structures representing lexicons ( such as those just described ) are wasteful of memory because on average there is only one route leading from any node .
23 He also said that ‘ it is easy to see that hunger , thirst , or the need to excrete , can produce dreams of satisfaction just as well as any repressed sexual impulse . ’
24 It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it .
25 It is easy to see some such ‘ addictions ’ as excuses , especially as the term resists strict definition .
26 It is easy to dismiss such claims as aspirational and self-fulfilling .
27 It is easy to let this feeling of tragedy overshadow his story , but that would be wrong .
28 It is easy to make this colourful and fascinating , with varied activities .
29 Furthermore , the states of a theorem prover are sets of axioms and proved assertions , and these are easily remembered , so it is easy to keep many states simultaneously .
30 The definition of p is such that the averaged expectation value of any quantum operator Q is given by As a quantum-mechanical operator , p obeys the Heisenberg equation of motion A major advantage of the density-matrix formulation is that it is easy to augment this equation by terms representing the interactions not accounted for in H. In the cases of interest , these can be represented by simple excitation and decay terms .
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