Example sentences of "it is easy [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stay here and , within a very short time , it is easy to sit back and imagine the life and traditional ways of the peasants who once toiled here and in the hills all around . |
| 2 | It is easy to draw up a list of opposed attitudes and values , based on this antithesis , such as the following : |
| 3 | It is easy to draw up a light-curve for a variable star . |
| 4 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 5 | However , a right-angle guide can be bought as an accessory to keep edges and faces of timber at 90°C , which is really useful , as it is easy to take off too much wood from one side or the other . |
| 6 | It is easy to mark around a dinner plate and then cut out with a sharp knife . |
| 7 | This is country where it is easy to live off the land , or out of the rivers , and to learn about life . |
| 8 | But it is easy to map out some of the important ‘ moments ’ ( though they can not always be dated precisely or uniformly across regions and social groups ) One would be the take-up , by former illiterates , of broadsides ; these had a printed text but , almost always , simply stipulated the use of an orally transmitted tune . |
| 9 | Most car boots will take a folded pushchair but it 's wise to check before you buy that it is easy to lift in and out . |
| 10 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 11 | It is easy to blast down a grade 5 river without much skill . |
| 12 | Supervision is difficult because it is easy to start up without registering . |
| 13 | It is easy to make up someone to look like someone , is n't it ? |
| 14 | If you know any two of the above variables , it is easy to work out the third . |
| 15 | If you can estimate your speed , and you know the time , then it is easy to work out the distance : Distance = Speed x Time |
| 16 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 17 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 18 | Then try to use any lift nearby , keeping within easy reach of the field and in a position from which it is easy to drop on to the circuit . |
| 19 | IT IS EASY to write off the Science Museum as somewhere you have already visited . |
| 20 | It is easy to write down an equivalent definition of unc that is a straightforward recursion on syntax . |
| 21 | It is easy to find out who deals with A&R in a record company , and it has to be worth the legwork to find the person specializing in your type of music . |
| 22 | In this position , the glider is on a base leg for any available field upwind and it is easy to look back and decide whether returning to the field is practical . |
| 23 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 24 | Clean , the Fouga glides well , so it is easy to throttle back to idle and float home . |