Being in a sentence

“I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— the quality or state of having existence
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Macmillan
— a person
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Other Word Forms

am
are
be
been
beings
is
was
were


Usage

28 uses of ‘being’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle