Example sentences of "a slowly [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 2 | like a slowly mending fracture as I thread the car |
| 3 | This is sunk to a depth of anything up to forty feet , on a lead-core line , and towed behind a slowly moving boat , fingers crossed . |
| 4 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 5 | For iron it is about 1000 K. This is a plausible explanation of the Mercurian field , though it is not certain that a slowly cooling core would end up with an appreciable magnetic dipole moment . |
| 6 | And she trembled , yielding , softening , flowering against him as a slowly swirling vortex of yearning began to build to an urgency . |
| 7 | For example , the system may use a rapidly diffusing inhibitor and a slowly diffusing activator ; the inhibitor inhibits activator production but its own production is dependent on the activator itself ; and the activator stimulates its own synthesis . |