Example sentences of "[adv] smoothly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funicular had resumed its climb , apparently smoothly enough . |
| 2 | It does n't always go so smoothly . |
| 3 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |
| 4 | The essence of any successful stage production is that it works so smoothly and efficiently that the audience is virtually unaware of the mechanism . |
| 5 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 6 | In fact , the choreographer 's growing skill was manifest in the way he combined different elements , from that sobbing at one extreme to the rapturous final duet at the other ( in which influences from Balanchine and Ashton could be seen ) , into one fluent whole , and fitted it all so smoothly to the music he chose , Ravel 's ‘ Mother Goose ’ Suite with one section omitted . |
| 7 | Bream do not always roll so smoothly though . |
| 8 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 9 | Congratulations on your success — at the second attempt ! — in moving New Scientist so smoothly into computerised phototypesetting . |
| 10 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 11 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 12 | I asked Dick if there were any surprises for him about the aircraft and he mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised that this Allison machine ran so smoothly and that the power band was as wide and it was . |
| 13 | Indeed , this first step proceeded so smoothly that the EEC decided to speed up the timetable of tariff reductions . |
| 14 | While survey or statistical research is often geared towards testing some specific hypothesis or , at least , examining the relationship between clearly defined conceptual categories , ethnographic research rarely proceeds so smoothly ( cf Rose , 1982 ) . |
| 15 | His re-entry , however , either to mainstream or to the start of adult working life , may not be achieved so smoothly . |
| 16 | Durham 's arrival in 1992 has come so smoothly that the wonder is that the gap following Glamorgan 's 1921 elevation was so long . |
| 17 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 18 | ‘ It went so smoothly . |
| 19 | But the gesture was accomplished so smoothly and was finished so quickly Dexter found it impossible to judge . |
| 20 | It 's all going so smoothly this morning is n't it ? |
| 21 | This is achieved by arranging efficient delivery systems , both within the firm and for goods from outside suppliers , so that the time between receipt of a sales order and delivery of the product is kept to a minimum , and the flow of deliveries and production proceeds so smoothly that there is no need to produce for stock . |
| 22 | Of course , things did not always go so smoothly . |
| 23 | Plans for the next show , however , are not running so smoothly and Pigott Smith does n't hide his frustration at a system which seems to be hindering his every move . |
| 24 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 25 | Everything had gone so smoothly . |
| 26 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 27 | Rachel was relieved that everything seemed to be running so smoothly , not only with the setting up of the chat-line but with the new , easygoing atmosphere in the centre . |
| 28 | McGoldrick signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and said : ‘ I 'm delighted it 's all gone through so smoothly . ’ |
| 29 | On a day when the general debate centred on whether or not games should be held when gales are blowing , Jess ruined a few arguments by going about his business so smoothly he gave the impression that in those areas of the field in which he moved , the wind had been magically stilled . |
| 30 | The conference ran extremely smoothly and tribute must be paid to as Conference Secretary , as the President 's Steward and the rest of the hard working team . |