Example sentences of "it [be] easy [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's easy to spot flocks of geese as they migrate .
2 And when you have that level of confidence it 's easy to do things because , you know , you just do it ; it never occurs to you that you might not be capable of pulling something off .
3 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 .
4 Well actually , it 's easy to write songs ; it 's hard to write good ones . ’
5 ‘ There are too many people around who think it 's easy to make sandwiches and will set up in a garden shed , almost , ’ said Jim Winship , director of the British Sandwich Association .
6 It 's easy to get things straight and clean , so if they did n't , they wanted it .
7 It 's easy to find examples of similar wickedness and sin in the twentieth century .
8 It 's easy to change things if you say , I want , three decimals instead of two whenever .
9 When roads , buildings , telegraph-poles and trees are in view , it is easy to judge distances , but in the desert , where in the morning and evening there is not even a haze to blur distant outlines , it is nearly impossible .
10 It is easy to stop squabbles and arguments in the interests of peace and harmony , yet to do so often prevents us from observing significant behaviour which can give the counsellor invaluable insight into how older people think and feel about themselves , other people and their situation .
11 It is easy to slide tiles around and find they are back in some position they were in before .
12 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 .
13 They are cheap and it is easy to carry spares .
14 It is easy to take children as a ‘ captive audience ’ for granted .
15 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 .
16 It is easy to give examples where individual outsiders benefit from the activity of insiders ; the fact remains that the expected rate of return to outsiders on stock market investments ( even to the large institutional investors such as pensions funds and mutual funds ) is lowered by insider dealing .
17 Although it is easy to dismiss meetings as time wasters , the above indicates why you should take them seriously .
18 If you are a dentist or a forklift truck driver it is easy to tell others what your skills are .
19 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 .
20 It is easy to imagine cases where cheating is advantageous .
21 That could work — though it is easy to imagine conflicts of interest with the housing and planning functions of the department .
22 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 .
23 It is easy to prevent cats breeding without de-sexing them .
24 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 .
25 It is easy to find arms in Karamoja .
26 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 .
27 But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members .
28 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 .
29 DataPrism is able to understand the relationships between tables , which means that it is easy to build queries .
30 It is easy to berate parties and governments for their failures and shortcomings with respect to programmes and implementation , but the conception of government by responsible parties requires certain things of the general public .
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