Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [not/n't] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 2 | Strange , is n't it , or perhaps not so strange , that the word is so much used by theoreticians and so little used by artists themselves ? |
| 3 | Idle — or perhaps not so idle — mention may be made on the radio news of a distant tropical depression known to be forming somewhere close to an exotic and encouragingly far away island — Yap , maybe , or Truk , or the northern Matianas . |
| 4 | Remarkably — or perhaps not so remarkably — Ungar 's mythic scotophobin had an amino-acid composition rather reminiscent of that of the endorphins and enkephalins . |
| 5 | It is curious , or perhaps not so curious , that a number of fundamental common law concepts in everyday use are still statutorily undefined , for example , murder , manslaughter , contract , defamation , negligence ( though the concept of duty of care was successfully defined in the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 ) . |
| 6 | So it is not an impossibility that the Earth has indeed been flipped over , or at least tilted , during remote or even not so remote prehistory . |
| 7 | So you start out from some curious notion you have hit on , or even not so curious . |
| 8 | Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) . |
| 9 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 10 | The Strip , at the westerly end of Sunset Boulevard and closest to the hub of the film industry , was the avenue for poseurs where every young hopeful — and plenty not so young — hung out to be discovered in one of the dozens of coffee bars that eventually gave way to rock ‘ n ’ roll clubs and then strip shows of the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 11 | A mini psychopath , I thought , and maybe not so mini , at that , if Xanthe thought he should be in jail . |
| 12 | While de Gaulle quietly and sometimes not so quietly chipped away at a NATO defence policy integrated under American leadership , he also sought to assert French autonomy and leadership in Europe . |
| 13 | The ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ passage , the first of the great Hebridean discourses in Johnson 's Journey , displays a writer confident that he is imparting information and reflection in sufficient quantities to excite both the reader 's thought and imagination — and yet not so lengthy as to bore them , nor so brief as to frustrate them . |
| 14 | Nunzia peeled herself an orange , paring the skin close to the flesh so the padded white endodermis was stripped from the juicy red-flecked flesh , and yet not so close that the fruit spurted juice . |
| 15 | I never thought I would again , and certainly not so soon . |
| 16 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |
| 17 | These are but single plants though and therefore not so beautiful , long lasting or so worthy of praise as ‘ all flowers and all trees ’ in the garden . |
| 18 | I 've had one or two before , but perhaps not so bad . ’ |
| 19 | Second , but perhaps not so much in the form of a survival as in that of a revival , Russian Formalism had a significant part to play in the development of Parisian structuralism during the 1960s ( particularly in the work of Todorov and Genette ) . |
| 20 | Gary Speed and Rod Wallace are both very good at what I would term ‘ reflex volleys ’ where the ball comes to them quickly or from an awkward angle , but perhaps not so good when they have time to think about it . |
| 21 | The general consensus seemed to be that ‘ Yes , there is a problem but probably not so bad as some people have suggested . |
| 22 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 23 | But here not so much , ’ he says . |
| 24 | But maybe not so unusual in the future . |
| 25 | I like the Katherine Mansfield type of short story , which has marvellous mood , but where not so much happens . |
| 26 | Mine 's like that but very not so much . |