Example sentences of "is [adj] human [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Thus it is that human efforts to provide basic understanding and protection of ‘ goodness ’ , lead immediately to the necessity to create a ‘ god ’ .
2 The reason probably is that human neonates , the newborn human beings have much more subcutaneous fat than any other primate .
3 These explanations can not be the whole answer , however , because it still remains to be explained why it is that human females are much more prone to ailurophobia than human males .
4 The answer is that human beings are embellishing creatures : we have never been satisfied with the merely utilitarian .
5 The best that can be hoped for , on their behalf , is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them .
6 One explanation is that human beings as well as organizations function far from perfectly .
7 The point is that human beings have relatively few needs , but can generate an enormous number of wants .
8 The universal element here is that human beings use their resources of language and technology to simplify the world of experience so as to bring it under control .
9 His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language .
10 The consequence of this is that human beings have increasingly come to resemble in their adult form the immature — or even foetal — forms of their early ancestors by means of a tendency to delay their individual development and to retain into maturity characteristics which typified the immature stages of their predecessors .
11 However , what is currently causing concern is that human activities are increasing rapidly the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth 's atmosphere .
12 A fundamental tenet of Adler 's theory is that human actions are motivated by feelings of inferiority of some kind .
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