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being a thing
vb. (present participle of be a thing English)
Usage examples of "being a thing".
And it being a thing impossible that I could hope that Wessex was to be beaten, and next to impossible that I should so much as imagine she could, I mostly wondered what would happen to me when the Danes had to seek the ships.
Freedom--the state of not being a slave, the state of not being a thing--was what that persona demanded now.
This life, being a thing which no one can say he has not experienced, it is on that account found in the memory, and recognised whenever the name of a happy life is heard.