Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but steady [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow but steady spread of literacy , the increasing contact with urban life , the ideas propagated by young radicals and democratically minded members of the ‘ third element ’ — all tended to strengthen peasant intransigence . |
| 2 | The slow but steady rise in France 's defence spending has begun to turn down this year . |
| 3 | That spool has a limited but steady sale to academics — a tribute to all the knowledge you had packed away . |
| 4 | However , by simply being Mr Decent , ie by not declaring a desire to eliminate his opponents , or referring to expressions of social concern as ‘ drooling and drivelling ’ and people who care as ‘ moaning minnies ’ , John Major had put down a slender but steady plank for enough people to cross from a public culture of concern and responsibility to a private preference for Conservative government . |
| 5 | It is a subject which seems to provide a small but steady flow of readers ' letters . |
| 6 | ‘ We have had a small but steady flow of people taking advantage of the offer , ’ she said . |
| 7 | As we have seen , this had occurred on a small but steady scale since pre-Roman times but new pressures forced a rapid growth in the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | However , despite the lack of knowledge on the subject , and the prejudices engendered against it , a small but steady stream of doctors is willing to investigate it . |
| 9 | From the late 1850s , as censorship was slackened and expectations of imminent and major reform rose , a small but steady stream of intelligentsia , largely drawn from students in higher education , became involved in radical dissent . |
| 10 | The University is budgeting for a deficit in 1992–3 leading to an accumulated deficit at the end of the year of £3.7m , having decided that the general financial outlook was sufficiently encouraging for it not to delay allocating funds towards the backlog of long-term maintenance ( see para. 3.8 above ) ; it believes that there will be a small but steady growth in student numbers , and that changes in the HEFCE 's method of distributing funds for research will benefit it . |
| 11 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 12 | We described its development at length in the first edition of this book and the past three years have witnessed a slow but steady increase in provision . |
| 13 | Given the severe limitations of physical plant , the University is planning a slow but steady growth in student numbers ( home/EC and overseas ) of around 1 per cent per annum across almost all subject areas , with a modest increase in the ratio of Science to Arts students . |
| 14 | The effect of this is that there is a slow but steady conversion of mantle material into continental crust , and therefore a steady net increase in the volume of continental crust . |
| 15 | ‘ I am making a slow but steady recovery . |
| 16 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |