I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accuse sb of being a liar
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He accused me of being a liar.
alien beings
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alien beings from another planet
describe sb/sth as (being/having) sth
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After the operation her condition was described as comfortable.
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The youth is described as being 18 to 19 years old.
intelligent beings
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Are there intelligent beings on other planets?
only being polite
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I know Ian said he liked her singing, but he was only being polite .
risk being seen/caught/arrested etc
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Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory.
Supreme Being
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I'm not being funny (but)
all (other) things being equal
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All other things being equal , schools where parents are highly involved are more likely to run effectively.
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Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal .
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But all other things being equal , the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
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But all things being equal , most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
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It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal .
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Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal .
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The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal , the one to be preferred.
all (other) things being equal
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Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
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But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
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But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
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It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
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Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
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The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
being drunk and disorderly
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Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.
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Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.
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Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.
for the time being
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Although the government aims to encourage private enterprise, around one third of the economy will remain under state control, for the time being.
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Bob's keeping his car in our garage for the time being.
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For the time being, Mrs Gilman's classes will be taken by other teachers.
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But for the time being, at least, stick an asterisk next to this season.
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But for the time being, one has to be realistic.
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Certainly, it rules out an easing for the time being.
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The villagers' resistance has led to the plan being postponed for the time being.
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This will, hopefully, shift his focus from writing to acting, at least for the time being.
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Tom is retired for the time being.
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We both know that the burden for the time being is going to be on him and his paintings.
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When it asks which formats it should play, let it take over everything for the time being.
with every fibre of your being
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And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away.
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What she was sure of, though, was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Being young and single, I wasn't really worried about what might happen.
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I wasn't surprised about the accident, kids being what they are.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alien
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The daleks in question are not enraged alien beings with full metal jackets.
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There was no alien spacecraft, and there were no alien beings and no secret autopsies in the desert in 1947.
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One to concentrate on his thoughts, the other to concentrate on the flight ahead that was alien to his being .
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That was exactly how I felt, as if I had been brought up by alien beings , inhuman things.
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In short, he concluded without reservation that the canals were artificial constructs of technologically advanced alien beings .
conscious
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Science can try to understand what computational change turned a chimpanzee into a conscious human being .
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For nothing can be called intrinsically valuable unless it is actually valued by some conscious being .
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One major distinguishing feature between all conscious beings is the eyes.
fellow
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To: Lord Younger Please hear my plead From a fellow human being with just one need.
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Artists, together with their fellow beings , picked their way through ruined cities, wearing what clothes they could get.
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Surely some one would look at me back - recognize me as some kind of fellow human being ?
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The satisfaction of helping fellow human beings in need.
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Their failure was that, because of man's inhumanity to his fellow beings , they did not fulfil their potential.
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I would be more than happy to greet the Duchess with the manners and respect that any fellow human being deserves.
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It never does to judge one's fellow human beings , does it?
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He gave the impression of being perpetually amused by, and yet far above, the foibles of fellow human beings.
human
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Sharing in such a personal faith gives unity to the diversity of human beings , bringing us together with others.
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A human being can undergo only so many changes and take in only so many experiences.
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It is clear that the destination of post-mortem existence was a world other than and different from the world human beings inhabit.
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But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straight forward computer graphics.
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Certainly we now know that suffering and death existed among animals long before the appearance of the first human beings .
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The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being .
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The human being , in other words, may be the victim of generations of male choice even more than female choice.
intelligent
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Is this consistent with respect for intelligent human beings ?
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He is a decent, intelligent human being who happens to see the world through a very narrow prism.
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We are hiding from the attack presented by the plain statements of a normal and intelligent human being .
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He took me to the farmer, who soon realized that I was not an animal, but an intelligent being .
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Maybe some other race of intelligent beings elsewhere in the galaxy will achieve a better balance between responsibility and aggression.
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Some scientists believe that these marine mammals may be more intelligent than human beings .
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For we are clearly concerned with intelligent human beings .
living
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Why should spirits aid living beings ?
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Odonata have never attacked a living human being .
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It had all the required characteristics of a living being and Lovelock concluded that this indeed was what it was.
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A living being is therefore in essence a potentially self-healing system.
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Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze.
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Its excesses had already degenerated into the sacrifice of living beings and its Chaotic nature was increasingly evident.
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He does not take into consideration the fact that they are killing, or trying to kill an living being .
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They were trying to earn a decent living as human beings .
other
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It displays a basic lack of respect for other human beings .
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Secondly, central bankers, like other human beings , can take the wrong decisions.
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They can even distinguish the scent of other human beings by sniffing the ground where they may have walked.
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So children take precedence over animals and other human beings generally do also.
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Just three years later I was taller than any other human being at our school, teachers included.
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Form close relationships with other human beings .
rational
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In turn, this presupposes treating the other as a person, as, at least partly, a rational being .
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It is the specification of those basic intrinsic values that all rational beings would desire.
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The implication, they fear, is that when the chips are down it is only rational human beings that really matter.
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So indeterminism is a necessary condition of the later development of morally important freedom in rational beings .
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I am not convinced that the principle of natural selection alone makes the emergence of rational beings probable.
social
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Socialisation is essential for a person to develop into a social being .
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Perceptions shaped her; proving her only human, a social being .
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Fourthly, ideology legitimizes social relations and covers over contradictions in the material relations of social being .
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Individuals, through love, become real social beings , each identifying with and loving through the other.
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Style may crystallize into persona and persona be understood as a public presentation of a particular type of social being .
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In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others.
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For scientists are social beings , their ideas moulded partly by social experience.
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Every child presents this process of transformation to us; only by that means does it become a moral and social being .
supreme
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I presume that we mean a supreme personal being - distinct from the world and creator of the world.
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Belief in supreme beings of whatever creed or breed seemed to Kate to constitute an evasion of personal responsibility.
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Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being .
whole
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She shivered through her whole being .
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Real compassion involves our whole being .
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His whole being had been consumed by a passionate longing to return.
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Two whole beings , joined together.
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In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours.
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The thought was terrifying to one whose whole being was devoted to the outer show.
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The self is how people see themselves as whole beings .
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There is joy in living in this very moment with the whole being .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I'm not being funny (but)
all (other) things being equal
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All other things being equal , schools where parents are highly involved are more likely to run effectively.
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Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal .
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But all other things being equal , the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
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But all things being equal , most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
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It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal .
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Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal .
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The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal , the one to be preferred.
all (other) things being equal
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Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
▪
But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
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But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
▪
It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
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Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
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The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
being drunk and disorderly
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Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.
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Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.
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Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.
for the time being
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Although the government aims to encourage private enterprise, around one third of the economy will remain under state control, for the time being.
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Bob's keeping his car in our garage for the time being.
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For the time being, Mrs Gilman's classes will be taken by other teachers.
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But for the time being, at least, stick an asterisk next to this season.
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But for the time being, one has to be realistic.
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Certainly, it rules out an easing for the time being.
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The villagers' resistance has led to the plan being postponed for the time being.
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This will, hopefully, shift his focus from writing to acting, at least for the time being.
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Tom is retired for the time being.
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We both know that the burden for the time being is going to be on him and his paintings.
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When it asks which formats it should play, let it take over everything for the time being.
spring into existence/being
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Finally new businesses do not spring into existence simply because taxes are reduced in a given area.
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Here, a fast, sparkling fresh stream springs into existence, fords a lane and runs parallel to a wooden pathway.
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It may be possible to think of a universe springing into existence out of nothing at all.
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Louis, have sprung into being.
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The nurse's soft, slightly damp touch faded and darkness sprang into being inside Chesarynth's head.
strike sb as (being) sth
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His arguments struck us as completely ridiculous.
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Mr. West struck me as a very good businessman.
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Alan and I used to fight - but that was just little boys striking out.
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It all struck Tish as an exciting ride.
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It did strike me as somewhat odd that Ellen would wait so long in life to discover her true orientation.
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Jocasta struck him as a typical Hollywood brat, neglected, indulged, selfish and forced to grow up too fast.
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She struck me as being a horror in the play.
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Surely these folks were great pals but that strikes me as a strange way to show it.
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They hoped that the very talk of a general strike would act as a restraining influence on militarism.
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Thus the strike came as no surprise to those involved.
with every fibre of your being
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And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away.
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What she was sure of, though, was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a human being
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living beings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that electrical energy also affects human beings.
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First of all, the bureaucrats shop like robots, not like human beings.
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It's so peculiar to think that you plus wife equals a new human being .
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Nature is said to abhor a vacuum; human beings abhor complexity. 3.
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The physiological states of growing organisms including human beings - vary greatly from one stage to another.
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These are status-hungry beings eager to define a place in the world for themselves and for others.
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We live by these great beings in the sky.