Example sentences of "[am/are] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am so closely blocked up by an army of Misfortunes , ’ he told Mary Evans in one of his increasingly fond letters , ‘ that really there is no passage left open for Mirth or any thing else . ’ |
| 2 | And I know what I am , but what I am so closely resembles somebody else that at times it even scares me ! |
| 3 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 4 | Drawing a clear-cut distinction between meaning and grammar is not an easy task , because the two are so intimately interwoven ( this is hardly surprising : ultimately , the only purpose of grammar is to serve the conveyance of meaning ) . |
| 5 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 6 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 7 | Although we only hear fragments of the storm , the music has such presence , and its elements are so cunningly chosen , that we can quite well imagine that the rondo form of the interlude is itself continuing outside in the darkness . |
| 8 | Written by John Martin Robinson , it traces the progress of the Temple family , whose political ideas and ambitions are so clearly seen in the gardens and buildings they created at Stowe . |
| 9 | Conversely , examining the situation of lone mothers , where the consequences of the economic inequalities between men and women are so clearly seen , also casts light upon the nature and causes of these inequalities . |
| 10 | Sometimes the lobes , as the divisions are called , are so intricately re-divided that they are commonly compared to fine lace . |
| 11 | Here we have , of course , the explanation why these lines are so enormously moving . |
| 12 | Some of Bach 's melodies , however , are so freely formed that it is impossible to decide whether , like the above Sarabande , they could have had a simple outline as their origin , or whether Bach followed a free vein of inspiration , ignoring a well-defined construction . |
| 13 | If Trudy Culross ( Why women are so easily replaced , September SHE ) really believes that the ‘ only difference between the sexes is that when love lies wasted , men do n't know how to hold a grudge ’ , she should try joining an introduction agency . |
| 14 | Since dogs are so easily manipulated , it is perhaps surprising that two of the most common problems we hear from doggy ‘ specialists ’ ( dog breeders , for example ) concern eating — like how to get a show dog to eat on the road , and how to get a recalcitrant dog to eat at all . |
| 15 | Do all discourse types have parts which are so easily named ? |
| 16 | The wedding vows are so easily said : ‘ For better , for worse ; for richer , for poorer ; in sickness and in health . ’ |
| 17 | The thought that MPs are so easily bribed with a couple of gin and tonics and a lamb cutlet is ridiculous . ’ |
| 18 | Artificial restrictions on ordering levels , such as pre-set expenditure limits on each order , are so easily circumvented that they are not realistic controls . |
| 19 | The young reader wonders how one human being could invent such an interesting story , and write it all in words that are so easily read . |
| 20 | Men are so easily deceived . ’ |
| 21 | How come you are so easily spared from the company which employs you ? ’ |
| 22 | In order to try and get a resident 's permit for the car you are so generously letting me have temporary use of , I need a mass of bumf for the Regional Council in due course — they require sight of , and in original , car registration documents , MOT certificate , insurance certificate , driving licence , evidence of ownership or tenancy lease of this house ( ! ) plus evidence of payment of property tax ! |
| 23 | ‘ Welcome , we are so please to see you . ’ |
| 24 | Since styles are so attractively brief there is an understandable temptation to think of all behaviour at a styles-level of description . |
| 25 | At best it would delay the arrival of that strong and vital recovery on which Treasury calculations on government spending and revenue are so delicately balanced . |
| 26 | The argument usually goes that because the nature of effective production ( e.g. stable , rigid , discipline-oriented ) and the nature of effective R & D ( e.g. fluid , organic , creativity-oriented ) are so diametrically opposed , the two functions have to be managed by entirely different principles . |
| 27 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 28 | They are so closely related that a provisional view on one may well be displaced as the result of conclusions reached on another . |
| 29 | No studies of art can in the end neglect the physical processes and needs of the human organism , with which ( see Chapter 4 ) its means of production are so closely involved . |
| 30 | The connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord . |