11.   Like a fire in the human community, it consumes living beings and its very nature is one of tragedy and suffering.

12.   Margulis and Sagan propose that large-scale evolution happens when organisms put together entire genomes to become new kinds of living beings.

13.   Ms. Amos treats the piano and harpsichord as living beings, and her body as the link between them.

14.   Ms. Wanamaker suddenly has a living being on whom she can direct her sarcasm and loathing.

15.   Now children are encountering a new category of objects, things that seem to possess intentions, preferences and other characteristics previously reserved for living beings.

16.   The greatest single danger facing all living beings on this planet is the threat of nuclear destruction.

17.   The Zunis regard these sacred carvings as living supernatural beings and return them to open-air shrines to work their collective magic as they weather and disintegrate.

18.   Vegans never eat anything that used to be, came out of or has the potential to become a living being.

19.   Young is head of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, which coordinates all US research on the effects of space travel on living beings.

20.   Apart from a few well-armed policemen, no living being could be seen.