Example sentences of "slowly [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | If this were so , the strengthening of the various associations generated by the inhibitory conditioning procedure would proceed only slowly for a pre-exposed stimulus and this effect could well outweigh any advantage that the existence of a stimulus-no event association might bestow . |
| 3 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 4 | He stood for a moment on the promenade in the same huddled way , and then he made his way slowly towards a green-painted seat and sat slowly down on it . |
| 5 | Dying slowly of a broken heart ? ’ |
| 6 | Along the shore , two and a half miles of golden sands slip slowly into a warm , blue sea where visitors can swim , sail and wind-surf . |
| 7 | And Mary as he had first seen her appeared before him again like an apparition as he slid slowly into a long sleep . |
| 8 | I had the crowd around me , shuffling slowly into a large ground-skim heading for city centre , but it was n't the same . |
| 9 | She turned Florence into the field and stood over the milk pails , stirring them slowly with a hazel stick . |
| 10 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 11 | A television camera-man was circling the car slowly with a hand-held camera . |
| 12 | Now he is driving slowly along a straight street cut like a slot between the towers . |
| 13 | Daru has only been beaten once in six starts this season , when starting slowly in a moderate handicap at Ripon , and he will be a tough nut to crack . |
| 14 | Swivel the foot slowly in a circular movement to the right , then to the left . |
| 15 | She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face , coming to rest on her mouth . |
| 16 | The camera holding the action switches slowly to a normal , positive picture — more acceptable to viewers now that the impact has been made . |
| 17 | Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream . |
| 18 | Thinking that was a dig at female priorities , she smiled but said nothing as they chugged slowly to a small jetty . |
| 19 | He would count slowly to a hundred . |
| 20 | The intense colour of dill when first in flower changes slowly to a rusty brown |
| 21 | We observed that you were travelling excessively slowly on a wide road , unimpeded by any other traffic . |
| 22 | The cloud was thick and low and moving slowly on a damp , chilling wind , a lidding expanse hiding the sky and the snow on the distant hills . |
| 23 | It is , in fact , a supercooled liquid , and if heated , it would soften slowly over a broad temperature range , rather than melting abruptly . |
| 24 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 25 | If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time . |
| 26 | But the power of this strong life-giving vibration is said to wane slowly over a 4.32 million year period , until man even forgets that he is really alive and conscious . |
| 27 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 28 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |