Example sentences of "or [not/n't] so " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | Heterosexuality can be more or less narcissistic , it can be very disturbed or not so . |
3 | Rather , the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 ? |
9 | However , this information is not very helpful for those who are not intuitive or not so confident about their intuition . |
10 | 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 ) . |
11 | 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 ? |
12 | The little sunlit thing had some numen ; or not so much a divinity , as a having known divinity , in it ; of being ultimately certain . |
13 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware . |
14 | 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 … |
15 | Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way . |
16 | Subject : Majestic or not so Leeds |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | I 'm , but I would n't , I would n't be able to say whether it was or not so |
20 | Well mister you ca n't tell whether you 're married or not so the feminist version is ms . |
21 | I need to know as soon as possible now whether we can do these surveys or not so I can fill the policies in . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 |
24 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
25 | So what we 're going to do is to trail our coats in a variety of sessions , to suggest a variety of things to you , and see whether you agree with them or not so please feel free to come in as and when appropriate and see what you think . |