Example sentences of "be slowly but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how . |
| 2 | As many developing countries are slowly but surely moving from economies based predominantly on agriculture into manufacturing and service industries , and as Third World populations are moving in great numbers from rural to urban areas , there are concomitant changes in the structures of food provision in these countries ( Abbott , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Pareto 's economic theory began with free competition , and his theory of society similarly seems to argue that in ideal conditions of free competition between elites the individuals in the elite groups will be slowly but continually replaced by the free circulation of elites . |
| 4 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 5 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 6 | The Italian Federation is fighting a rearguard battle against this trend , which is slowly but surely killing Italian rugby . |
| 7 | Gazza is slowly but surely learning the Italian language , making it work for him . |
| 8 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 9 | This second phase ( 1945–56 ) must in turn be contrasted with the post-1956 , post-Stalinist phase during which the credibility of the Zhdanov line was slowly but irreversibly undermined , and the centre of gravity of Marxist cultural activity shifted away from orthodox socialist realism to a variety of experiments involving linkages between revolutionary politics and formalist experimentation at the level of imaginative writing , and between Marxist theory and innovations in the human sciences at the level of critical analysis . |
| 10 | Gazing into grey eyes that seemed incredibly gentle and soft , she forgot all about his reasons for being there , forgot everything except this infuriating giant who was slowly but surely destroying her peace of mind , ‘ Why ? ’ she whispered . |