Example sentences of "easy as it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Taking out proper insurance to cover the risks entailed in operating a haulage business is not as easy as it might appear .
2 ‘ It 's not as easy as it might appear , ’ Ballater commented , and then introduced himself .
3 The problem with this is that discovering what untrained ( or ‘ naive ’ ) speakers feel about their own language is not as easy as it might sound .
4 The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance .
5 The questions must avoid ambiguities which is not as easy as it might seem , it is desirable to obtain several opinions about the interpretation of each question from the same kind of people as those who will be in the survey .
6 It 's not as easy as it might seem .
7 Detecting the seasons is not as easy as it may appear , because the weather does not vary reliably .
8 Writing a thesis on dance clubs is not as easy as it may sound .
9 Getting into the agency business is n't as easy as it may seem .
10 This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating .
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