Example sentences of "the [adj] be [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the deadly diet of the rich is now being exported to the Third World . |
| 2 | At the same time as they were re-establishing themselves in Vietnam the French were finally being evicted , as they saw it , from Syria and the Lebanon and while these were League of Nations mandates rather than parts of the French Empire proper , their loss was no less bitterly resented . |
| 3 | The Japanese were obviously being defeated but it was far from certain when this would finally be accomplished . |
| 4 | The poor were still being burned . |
| 5 | All this talk of peace and detente in the Med is n't being allowed to interfere with war games at Greenham Common . |