Example sentences of "iraq be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 2 | Anywhere there are sizeable Muslim populations the war against Iraq is being portrayed by the devout as an attack by the West on Islam , however poorly this squares with the facts . |
| 3 | Iraq is being terribly battered . |
| 4 | President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia said on Jan. 26 that " the destruction and devastation to which fraternal Iraq is being subjected has reached an intolerable level " . |
| 5 | Iraq was being destroyed while a CNN commentator excitedly described it as ‘ fireworks on the 4th of July ’ . |
| 6 | Labour accused senior ministers , including the Prime Minister , of being aware that the arms embargo against Iraq was being breached . |