Example sentences of "[be] so [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise .
2 ‘ Nothing is impossible , ’ she cried furiously , disappointed that Lucenzo should turn out to be so lacking in integrity .
3 Unfortunately the report is so lacking in detail as to be virtually useless in identifying individual objects , and there are no accompanying photographs .
4 Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest .
5 He was so lacking in compassion , in basic humanity .
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