Example sentences of "or [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way .
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 ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware .
7 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 ?
8 The little sunlit thing had some numen ; or not so much a divinity , as a having known divinity , in it ; of being ultimately certain .
9 Male victims above the age of consent might well be perceived as homosexual or latently so even if they are not .
10 He never does anything quite so bold again , or quite so fast .
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