Example sentences of "or [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 ) . |