Example sentences of "easy [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 2 | I usually start at the walls because I find it easier to think up the general colour scheme first , but many people prefer to start with the floor because they automatically think of carpet and presume that this will be the most expensive item . |
| 3 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 4 | As each ride had five gondolas , it is easy to see why the various fair magnates were wealthy , even in the days when a ride cost 3d . |
| 5 | Now , sitting in the Shalimar Garden , it was very easy to see why the Persian word for an enclosed garden had become an English synonym for bliss . |
| 6 | As for Ireland , short of trip to Lourdes , it 's not easy to see where the instant cure will come from . |
| 7 | It is easy to see how the two versions ‘ fit ’ typical articulating principles traditionally associated with the bourgeoisie ( ‘ individualism ’ ) and the working class ( ‘ collectivism ’ ) . |
| 8 | Mrs Whitehouse was accused at many points of being motivated by ‘ hatred ’ of homosexuals and , whilst the extract suggests that her attitude was not one of ‘ hatred ’ — indeed far from it — by including in her attitude to homosexuality such words as : undesirable , repugnant , perverse , suffering and abnormal , it is also easy to see how the gay community might be less than happy with the description . |
| 9 | If you know any two of the above variables , it is easy to work out the third . |
| 10 | It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive . |
| 11 | It was easy to imagine how the tiny volume might have been overlooked , more difficult to conceive that it was half a millennium old . |
| 12 | It is easy to imagine how the early inhabitants of the Middle Fast , and in particular the ancient Egyptians , could have converted this African race into a domestic partner and there is little doubt that this is what occurred , with the more northerly European form being left out of the story altogether in the initial stages . |
| 13 | Birds of Prey does allow you to limit the choice of airplanes to make them more appropriate to the mission type , but it is only too easy to select totally the wrong plane and/or payload for the task in hand . |
| 14 | Most of these ( excluding the odd insomniac ) must be reasonably committed to the programme 's curiously shifting agenda but , with these kind of viewing figures , and an annual budget of about £4.5 million , it is easy to understand why The Late Show has caused such widespread resentment in the BBC . |
| 15 | I still have to stitch er , erm my cardigan up for Melanie but erm it was easy to start off the other one while I was talking to your mother . |
| 16 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 17 | It is not easy to explain away the perverse comparative static finding for k . |