adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be easily/readily/freely available (=easy to get)
▪ The material used was cheap and readily available.
breathe easily
▪ Make sure the injured person can breathe easily.
can easily imagine
▪ I can easily imagine how frightening the accident must have been.
clearly/easily/readily distinguishable
▪ The cheese is easily distinguishable by its colour.
cope easily
▪ The exam was tough but she coped easily.
could easily (=would be likely to)
▪ A faulty connection could easily cause a fire.
easily accessible
▪ There is a church which is easily accessible from my home.
easily beat sb
▪ Jason easily beats me at chess every time we play.
easily bored
▪ Teenagers are easily bored in the holidays.
easily led (=it is easy for other people to persuade him to do things that he should not do)
▪ He’s not a bad boy. He’s just easily led.
easily offended
▪ radio listeners who are easily offended
easily persuaded
▪ He was fairly easily persuaded.
easily the best
▪ The series was easily the best TV drama this year.
easily the most
▪ A recent study showed that gardening is easily the most popular activity among the over 50s.
easily visible
▪ By July 26, Mercury should be easily visible in the evening sky.
easily
▪ Chavez won the election easily.
easily/lightly (=without much thought)
▪ This is a question that cannot be dismissed lightly.
easily/readily accessible
▪ Computers should be made readily accessible to teachers and pupils.
give up...easily
▪ You shouldn’t give up so easily.
let sb off lightly/easily (=give someone a less serious punishment than they deserve)
▪ I think young criminals are let off far too lightly.
might easily (=it is likely)
▪ One of the guards might easily panic and shoot someone .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accessible
▪ The Shoctector has an easily accessible Test/Reset button to give you additional peace of mind each time you use it.
▪ Stax in Memphis was initially white-owned, easily accessible to outsiders, filled with leaders of all kinds.
▪ Sharing can be through meetings and conferences, but a written report is obviously more easily accessible to others.
▪ And even there when I tugged at lashings which were easily accessible, they too snapped.
▪ It is all fun and all the venues are easily accessible.
▪ This complementary pair of colors is easily accessible in cyclamen, poinsettias and berrying plants.
▪ There should be a proper waiting room, with chairs, magazines to read and cloakroom facilities easily accessible.
▪ Wraps growing popularity makes them easily accessible.
available
▪ Information on services easily available. 9.
▪ And opportunities to bet on the stock market have become far more easily available.
▪ It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions.
▪ When they become rich and prominent, they find women easily available.
▪ Clearly, this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia.
▪ Acceptable use policies of non-ISPs are published and are usually easily available in the network information service centers of the target network.
▪ If you don't know the frequency of services and current fares make sure that this information is easily available.
▪ The I-way makes this practice more affordable and easily available to a number of small firms.
■ VERB
become
▪ Streetwise keeps students' motivation strong ... Teenage students at intermediate level can easily become bored and frustrated.
▪ One can easily become disenchanted with over-professionalized people who are undoubtedly unworthy when subjected to the judgment of more reflective scholars.
▪ Constant activity can easily become an ineffectual nervous twitch.
▪ The meat can easily become dry and stringy although, when cooked properly, they are extremely flavorful.
▪ Relatives need help with grieving, for past relationships in the family can easily become crystallised at death.
▪ And we need to warn them that the words they are using can very easily become fighting words.
▪ They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.
▪ There is, in fact, so much to see here that a traveler can easily become overwhelmed.
come
▪ Act 2, Scene 4 Comment Isabella can very easily come across as a prig.
▪ Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
▪ Basil was not a great public speaker but what came through was all the more effective because it had not come easily.
▪ Revision comes easily to young children.
▪ She watched as his eyes fell to her mouth and knew what could so easily come next.
▪ Such calculations will never come easily.
▪ Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose.
▪ As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.
find
▪ It is in a villa which you will easily find because it is near the river.
▪ References to glossolalia are to be found easily.
▪ Anne knew Nina could easily find a place to kill herself in private.
▪ Post-job employees are going to need a much more flexible organization to work in than they can easily find today.
▪ In New York, the board could easily find allies.
▪ Most will easily find something to please the palate at a moderate price.
▪ Certainly they could easily find themselves short of energy amid plenty.
▪ Improved form-filling software lets you easily find lines in a form.
fit
▪ It is usually simplest if a washing machine can go next to the sink, but it can easily fit in other places.
▪ But a little beef now and then can easily fit in a well-balanced diet.
▪ Yet, overlapping is inevitable whenever risk categories fit easily into more than one compartment.
▪ Our own children have not seen much evidence that women can easily fit a career around a marriage and motherhood.
▪ They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment.
▪ Teacher Song, a slender man, fit easily into the crawl space.
▪ Range Rover diffs will fit easily but, with a worn engine, will probably make the consumption worse than it is.
▪ They may seem a lot, but in fact they fit easily into a single bag.
identify
▪ The style was international, eclectic, easily identified, but almost impossible to define.
▪ A chimpanzee is an easy recipient for human projections since humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.
▪ Although section area and orientation differed among the tissue blocks, the epithelium and lamina propria were easily identified.
▪ The upper level was diagnosed by the columnar-squamous epithelial border, which was always easily identified.
▪ However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin.
▪ Of course, I am more easily identified and more distinctive, if not distinguished, than most authors.
▪ Many potential purchasers can be easily identified with minimum cost using research.
▪ This society seemed self-contained; those who felt exploited could easily identify the enemy - the landlord or money lender.
lead
▪ It could only too easily lead to acquiescence in the evil done by the powers of this world.
▪ The talented people who make up Great Groups are not easily led.
▪ The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation, and most people don't know their rights.
▪ We are so easily led to pernicious solutions.
▪ Often clients of licensed dealers who were genuinely interested in options would be easily led into warrants.
▪ This can easily lead to the impression that it is a scholarly work of only archival interest.
▪ This double area of control can easily lead to the blurring of the job surveyor's responsibilities.
▪ But combinations of other controls which are viewed benignly may very easily lead to similar effects.
move
▪ Departments, moreover, are not easily moved in new directions by the outsiders that presidents set over them.
▪ By their nature, atoms can not be easily moved, changed or copied.
▪ Solid, rock like, you don't move easily and you take things slowly but surely.
▪ His community orientation varies from small communities to regional and national units, and he moves easily from one to another.
▪ Both wheels move easily, their large diameter giving plenty of turning moment.
▪ Up ahead the two live bears moved easily in the dusk.
▪ Spider riders can move easily through woods and forests, scuttling over the treetops and through the dense foliage.
▪ And students would be allowed to move easily among career areas.
reach
▪ It is easily reached by car, train or boat.
▪ Some like Las Fuentes were easily reached and took advantage of previous ventures.
▪ In this procedure part of a gene from the target organism is amplified many millions of times to reach easily detectable levels.
▪ Both these and the other attractions can be easily reached from our bases in Kissimmee and Orlando.
▪ So when you fit them, make sure they can be reached easily.
▪ Can the taps be easily reached?
▪ Fuschl is the closest of all our resorts to Salzburg, which is easily reached by a regular bus service.
understand
▪ Within these two sentences, the situation is easily understood and explained.
▪ If this problem were easily understood or amenable to fast solutions, there would be few work-inhibited students.
▪ Bosses still had to be bosses when the occasion required but that was understood easily and early.
▪ What is happening is most easily understood in terms of the wave picture of light.
▪ From a wave point of view this is easily understood.
▪ Meteor Crater is easily understood as the result of a surface impact of a body bearing about fifteen megatons of energy.
▪ Reality is sometimes too complex to understand easily.
▪ The modern trial is a contest in which justice is defined in easily understood, monetary terms-dollars.
win
▪ Although this wins easily, 29 e3! is considerably more murderous.
▪ After all, President Reagan easily won support for his big tax cut in 1981 from a Democratic-controlled Congress.
▪ Starting at 14-1 and not expected to be fully fit after his long lay-off, he won easily.
▪ Martin Kennelly won easily, ending fourteen years of steady employment for Ed Kelly.
▪ Whitney easily won the summer election in 1908, and Beck was returned with a huge majority.
▪ If only more people could meet him and see how nice he is, say his managers, we would win easily.
▪ Johnson easily won the 400, then came back three days later to obliterate the record in the 200.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come easily/naturally (to sb)
▪ Acting has always come naturally to her.
▪ Change doesn't always come easily.
▪ For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
▪ For many students, the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests.
▪ Realism, though humanly exacting, is technically what comes naturally.
▪ Swimming comes naturally to a fish.
▪ The role doesn't come naturally to either Bush or Gore.
▪ Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
▪ Whether you are graced appears to be at least partly a matter of temperament, Fowers notes: It comes naturally.
▪ You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be.
not sit well/easily/comfortably (with sb)
▪ Certainly, such views as these do not sit comfortably with managerialism and are equally at odds with restricted professionality.
▪ He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him.
▪ One might think a hockey fan would not sit easily at a sewing machine piecing together patches for a quilt.
▪ The adornment, thought Eloise smugly, would not sit well amidst so much blubber.
▪ The closures, which began late last month, does not sit well with many of the regulars.
▪ The populist vision of a peasant landholding democracy does not sit easily with alternative visions of women's rights.
▪ The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits.
▪ This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall.
sb can breathe easy/easily
scare easily
▪ Being a police officer isn't a job for someone who scares easily.
▪ I'll go down and see what that noise was. I don't scare easily you know.
▪ I don't think I scare easily, but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend.
▪ When Glass bought his house, the area where he lives was full of crack dealers so he does not scare easily.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A burglar could easily climb in through that window.
▪ He is easily the highest paid player in baseball.
▪ I'll easily finish the report by Friday.
▪ Lizzie and Jane are so alike that they're easily mistaken for each other.
▪ She smiled easily when I asked about her hometown.
▪ The bike can easily be assembled in thirty minutes.
▪ These plates are easily damaged, so please be careful with them.
▪ When I went to college, I made friends very easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.
▪ Before she had taken him over he must have written too easily.
▪ But the balance is easily adjustable with any Dolby Pro Logic receiver.
▪ It can just as easily fall back into anti-feminism.
▪ It is a claim not to be easily dismissed.
▪ Some of the hilltops were easily eight hundred feet above the valleys.
▪ You could easily categorise your addresses into five sections.