Example sentences of "[am/are] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I am so cooped up . |
| 2 | As he wrote to Eulalia , abbess of Shaftesbury : ‘ I am so harassed in the archbishopric that if it were possible to do so without guilt , I would rather die than continue in it ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Dorothea Shottery , ‘ Oh , oh , I am so enjoying myself ! |
| 4 | I am so pissed off with being told how men own and control the world . |
| 5 | When I drive off , I am so churned up inside that I find myself hoping I sha n't make things worse by having a coronary on the way to work . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 7 | However , the rules which regulate take-over bids are so riddled with occasions when the managers of a target company can affect the outcome of the bid that the take-over bid ceases to act as the potent threat to self-serving or inefficient corporate managers which it is supposed to be . |
| 8 | ‘ They are always amazed that we are so un-rock 'n' roll . |
| 9 | The third image pictures the state in liberal democratic societies as a corporatist network , integrated with external elites into a single control system : here talk of external control versus state autonomy is irrelevant , for state and economic elites are so interpenetrated by each others ' concerns that no sensible boundary line or balance of influence can be drawn . |
| 10 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 11 | Light , in combination with landscape , is Braham 's main metaphor , and he has commented : ‘ Traditional metaphors are so ingrained in all of us that one can never quite escape the suggestion that light represents good , darkness represents bad . |
| 12 | Where the terms of a settlement are so framed that a clearly defined person can benefit ( for example if the class of beneficiaries includes ‘ any spouse of the settlor ’ or ‘ spouse of the settlor 's children' ) or such persons could be added to the class of beneficiaries , then the settlor will be treated as having an ‘ interest ’ in the trust . |
| 13 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 14 | Some children brought up in institutions are so damaged by these experiences that they can not live in a family where they have to respond to others ' feelings and may escape into work in an institutional setting . |
| 15 | Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months . |
| 16 | ( Meliaceae ) but durian seeds are so damaged that ground-walking animals are thought to be the principal effective agents possibly sun-bears , or even tigers . |
| 17 | But consider the Indecency with Children 's Act 1960 for children under 14 years who are so invited . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , she said he needs some new pyjamas — his old ones are so worn through they 're hardly decent — so I went out and bought him a pair . ’ |
| 19 | Secrecy and restrictions on communication between scientists and engineers are so stultifying that many reportedly are discouraged from undertaking defence work . |
| 20 | These life-sustaining ingredients can be applied directly to the vine by man , indeed are so applied by man in commercial viticulture , yet according to Mike Woodhead , the owner of ‘ Le Bonheur ’ in South Africa , it is possible to effect a permanently natural and desirable nutrient cycle in soils considered inferior by some . |
| 21 | German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike . |
| 22 | Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies . |
| 23 | The toxins secreted by the skin are among the most poisonous substances known , and these frogs are so named because the Noamana , Choco and Cuna Indians of Colombia use the poison to tip their arrows and blow-darts . |
| 24 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 25 | This overriding goal entails that the best constitutional arrangements each person can reach while acting in conformity with his own moral ideals are morally valid , and since the commonly agreed upon arrangements are so regarded by everyone , they are morally binding on all . |
| 26 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 27 | The most healing tears are those which neither overwhelm us with pain , nor are so detached from our feelings that we do not really own them . |
| 28 | For the really determined walker there are two Government-run hotels or pousadas in the mountains , which are so isolated there is nothing to do each day but hit the trail . |
| 29 | The Socialists are so rattled by the prospect of losing at least three of the seven Cadiz parliamentary seats to Mr Pacheco that they coaxed Dona Carmen into leaving the Moncloa palace and joining the fray . |
| 30 | The Opposition are so rattled about it that NALGO is spending £2 million to advertise against it . |