As an auxiliary verb:
The dog was saved by the boy.
As a copulative verb:
There is just one woman in town who can help us.
As an intransitive lexical verb:
Alternative form of by. Also found in compounds, especially oaths, e.g. begorra.
O ful tru un pertikler akeawnt o... th' greyt Eggshibishun. Be o felley fro Rachde.
Initialism of Black English.
Initialism of Buddhist Era.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:BE.
Initialism of board-eligible.
From Middle English been (“to be”). further etymology of be and its conjugated forms The various forms have three separate origins, which were mixed together at various times in the history of English...
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The Universe has no explanation: it just is.