1.   Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us as sentient beings.

2.   But Kasparov was representing all of us, every sentient being on the planet, against a machine wired up by IBM.

3.   In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are closer to zombies than sentient beings much of the time.

4.   It treated dead people and dead forms as sentient beings.

5.   Scripture is flying, the reporters are scribbling and the boom microphones are jammed in the direction of any sentient being looking vaguely divine.

6.   The animal lawyers say the idea that animals are mere property evolved centuries before modern notions of some animals as sentient beings with perceptions and even emotions.

7.   The rear seats, though equipped with belts, are too small for sentient beings.

8.   When Cope plays artificial Chopin to naive listeners, they respond emotionally to what they assume is a sentient being musically reaching out to them.

9.   This sorry state of affairs could be brought to an end if animals are accorded their true status as sentient beings and not regarded as goods.