1 The attendance was encouragingly high.

2 "You're doing really well," her midwife said encouragingly.

3 My mother smiled encouragingly at me as I went up on stage.

4 " Go on, " he said encouragingly to his student.

5 As if she reads his mind, she moans encouragingly.

6 But the new West Indies proved encouragingly resilient, repeatedly getting up off the canvas to deliver the final knockout punch.

7 Encouragingly the past couple of months have seen an upturn in measured revenues.

8 Alexandra nodded to her encouragingly.

9 He was encouragingly cheered by the crowd.

10 More encouragingly, remittances to developing countries also expanded.

11 Against all expectations, the theatre reopened to encouragingly large audiences.

12 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites showed good understanding of the service of the LORD.

13 Encouragingly, Mr Erdogan is dropping hints that he will move in this direction.

14 Encouragingly, hedge funds are itching to take advantage of the attractive financing terms.

15 Come, dearest child!'said Hester encouragingly, and stretching out both her arms.

16 But, most encouragingly, there'd been no sign of any recurrence of the hallucinations.

17 The inbuilt competition of these developments points encouragingly at a corresponding increase in the quality of content, creativity and technical competence...

18 The results encouragingly satisfactory.

19 Encouragingly, the drop - out rate, an important measurement of affordability and educational quality, has also fallen.

20 Encouragingly , however, more and more workers are doing just that.

21 Mrs Cohen shuffles away, then turns and waves at me encouragingly.

22 On occasion, she would meet Ted's eyes, and he would wink, and nod his head encouragingly.

23 She hurried downstairs and saw Sam Morgan standing beside the van, smiling at her encouragingly.

24 "Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it, " Jesus tells him encouragingly. "The star that leads the way is your star."