Example sentences of "be so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 2 | ‘ I am so disappointed because I had the chance . |
| 3 | After the hearing he said : ‘ I am so pleased that my character and reputation has been cleared . |
| 4 | I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior ! |
| 5 | It was a performance that I keep in my memory , and am so pleased that MK remembers the playing . |
| 6 | I believe they represent the very best of the BBC 's tradition in journalism and I am so pleased that you have chosen to honour them . |
| 7 | ‘ I am so pleased when you do as I ask . ’ |
| 8 | I am so convinced that this is a fact I often only half-fill the ‘ feeder so that I can cast more often and take advantage of the extra number of casts and splashes and those thirty-second deadly periods . |
| 9 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 10 | " Oh , kind sir , " Gabriel besought him , " I am so tired and hungry from travelling through the forest . |
| 11 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 12 | ‘ I am so busy that my brain is in a complete jumble . |
| 13 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 14 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ James , ’ she said in a flat voice , ‘ I am so glad that you have come . ’ |
| 16 | " Indeed I am so glad that if there are sometimes cockroaches in the food here , you have your wife and child at home . " |
| 17 | I am so glad that you came north over Easter , and I hope it wo n't be too long before we can get to know each other a little better . |
| 18 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 19 | Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’ |
| 20 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 21 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 22 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
| 23 | Glasses behave as they do because , while they are cooling , they are so viscous that the molecules do not have time to sort themselves out into crystals and so cool glass is a solidified liquid , not a crystalline solid . |
| 24 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 25 | Although most shrub roses make strong self-supporting growth , a few are so lax and flexible that mature specimens have far greater width than height . |
| 26 | There are , the book argued , many ways of ‘ being at home in the town ’ , with many examples of good practice already visible today in maturing towns ; in densely populated areas with narrow streets ; in ‘ a celebratory way ’ by making a quiet little green island at the opening of a street ; in a new town ; in existing residential areas where the space around the houses and garages is used to make a series of squares and narrowings ; or ‘ in a happy way ’ where flowers and trees are so colourful that parked cars are less intrusive . |
| 27 | The chromosomes of E. coli and salmonella are so similar that there are long stretches of identical DNA in the two organisms . |
| 28 | Such tests are rarely used nowadays , possibly because the concepts of overinclusive and divergent thinking are so similar and , in themselves , have little diagnostic value for differentiating the mad from the merely original . |
| 29 | You are so conceited and smug ! |
| 30 | In addition the laser methods are so powerful that they can be applied to excited nuclear states . |