Example sentences of "or [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days , if you were a woman or recognizably so , it was wellnigh impossible to procure a pint of beer in a public house . |
| 2 | The question has become practically irrelevant , but not politically or morally so . |
| 3 | We go on being as good , or better so that in our customers ' eyes we are always their Company of the Year — every year . |
| 4 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 5 | But I mean more or less so You 'll probably get a feel for when you 've got things . |
| 6 | The print head can move vertically up or down so that a pin can contact any one of the three pads of the printer ribbon . |
| 7 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 8 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Heterosexuality can be more or less narcissistic , it can be very disturbed or not so . |
| 10 | Rather , the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities . |
| 11 | If the respondent was a relative , friend , or neighbour , they were asked to say whether they thought various aspects of the home were good or not so good . |
| 12 | Simply ( or not so simply ) to relocate value onto consumption not only misrecognizes ethnography , it also leaves behind it a problem in the aesthetics of production — a problem which has both critical and political dimensions . |
| 13 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 14 | I thrived on the praise and admiration , loved to show off , and secretly ( or not so secretly ) thought myself superior to older children who had not yet acquired my special skills . |
| 15 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |
| 16 | However , this information is not very helpful for those who are not intuitive or not so confident about their intuition . |
| 17 | However , as Norton and Aughey ( 1981 ) comment of Conservative Party members in general , whether young or not so young , ‘ generally party activists tend not to devote their energies to political discussion , not because they are discouraged from doing so , but because they themselves prefer to do other things ’ ( pp. 219–20 ) . |
| 18 | How do you cope with it , the ninety three of you who get depressed from time to time , whether it 's severely or or or or not so severely ? |
| 19 | The little sunlit thing had some numen ; or not so much a divinity , as a having known divinity , in it ; of being ultimately certain . |
| 20 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware . |
| 21 | Even better were the days when there was no box and she and Andrew rode home together through the short dark evenings , gentle friends , warm goodnights calling to them , stresses of the day , wonderful or not so wonderful , over and past , the time for loving and giving nearer … |
| 22 | Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way . |
| 23 | Subject : Majestic or not so Leeds |
| 24 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 25 | But perhaps more importantly , do any companies get real value from the large sums they spend trying to persuade a gullible or not so gullible public that they are modern and go-ahead — or , even more to the point , how many logos that do not contain the company name ( like BP or ICI ) are recognised unprompted by the average person ? |
| 26 | I 'm , but I would n't , I would n't be able to say whether it was or not so |
| 27 | Well mister you ca n't tell whether you 're married or not so the feminist version is ms . |
| 28 | I need to know as soon as possible now whether we can do these surveys or not so I can fill the policies in . |
| 29 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 30 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |