Example sentences of "is [adj] [adj] beings " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that human beings are embellishing creatures : we have never been satisfied with the merely utilitarian . |
| 2 | The best that can be hoped for , on their behalf , is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them . |
| 3 | One explanation is that human beings as well as organizations function far from perfectly . |
| 4 | The point is that human beings have relatively few needs , but can generate an enormous number of wants . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And the reason we observe this thermodynamic arrow to agree with the cosmological arrow is that intelligent beings can exist only in the expanding phase . |