I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a human chain (= a large number of people who form a line, a circle etc to do something )
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Riot police formed human chains to block demonstrators.
a human characteristic
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The power of speech is an entirely human characteristic.
a human gene
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The actual number of human genes is still in dispute.
a human tragedy
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The UN wants to see an end to the conflict and the human tragedy involved.
a human/animal/plant cell
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the structure of plant cells
common/human/public decency (= standards of behaviour that are expected of everyone )
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The film was banned on the grounds of public decency.
Equality And Human Rights Commission, the
human activity
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There was no sign of any human activity.
human being
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a human being
human civilization
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the development of human civilization
human communication
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Speech is the most effective method of human communication.
human conduct
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Societies have certain rules for normal human conduct.
human dignity
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Prisoners should be treated with regard for human dignity .
human emotions
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the expression of human emotions through music and poetry
human endeavor
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an outstanding example of human endeavor
human error (= errors made by people )
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Automatic checks reduce the danger of human error.
human evolution
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Our ancestors reached a key stage in human evolution when they began to stand up straight.
human existence
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Darwin's theory of natural selection changed our view of human existence forever.
human frailties
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human frailties
human happiness (= happiness felt by people )
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One of the greatest sources of human happiness is love.
human health
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Some chemicals pose a significant risk to human health.
human history (= the history of people rather than the world itself )
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World War I was the most destructive war in human history up to that time.
human instinct
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It's a natural human instinct to comfort someone who is unhappy.
human nature
human nature (= the feelings and ways of behaving that all people have )
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Of course she’s jealous – it’s only human nature .
human potential (= people’s abilities or qualities )
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Mass unemployment is a shameful waste of human potential.
human race
human relationships
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Human relationships fascinate me.
human resources
human right
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human rights violations
human rights abuses
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An independent committee will look into alleged human rights abuses.
human rights violations (= violations of every person's right to be treated fairly and without cruelty )
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There have been protests about human rights violations at the prison.
human rights (= the rights that everyone should have )
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This company always operates with respect for human rights.
human sacrifice (= a person killed as a sacrifice )
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a human sacrifice
human shield
human values
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basic human values such as honesty, decency, and duty
human waste (= from people going to the toilet )
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The prison was full of the smell of human waste.
human/animal anatomy
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Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.
human/animal behaviour
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the scientific study of human behaviour
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detailed observations of animal behaviour
human/animal bones
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They dug up a lot of human bones from under the castle.
on a human scale (= one that is small enough for people to understand and be happy with )
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Architects have been asked to redesign some of the buildings on a more human scale.
peace/human rights etc monitors
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The UN is sending peace monitors to the area.
social/human contact (= spending time with other people )
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He lived alone and had little human contact.
the human body
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There are billions of cells in an adult human body.
the human conscience
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The human conscience is a product of civilization.
the human dimension
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What the figures cannot show us is the human dimension of the disaster.
the human mind
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It is impossible to understand the complex nature of the human mind.
the human psyche
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Freud’s account of the human psyche
unfit for human consumption (= not suitable to eat )
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The meat was declared unfit for human consumption .
unfit for human habitation (= not good enough to live in )
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The house was unfit for human habitation .
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activity
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Rather few human activities seem to have their main point merely in themselves.
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It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by human activity and consciousness.
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The navy says that burial at sea is less expensive, demands less shipyard work, and is isolated from human activity .
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To Virgil as to all Roman poets, war was the noblest and most glorious of human activities .
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Meanwhile, worried scientists have moved beyond offering proof of the ill effects of human activity to proposing solutions.
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In advancing the tenets of racism, Western theorists left no avenue of human potentiality and human activity untouched.
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For working purposes one can simplify this still further and define sites as places where significant traces of human activity are identified.
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More than most human activities , sport reveals this essential truth of existence as it is perceived in the perennial philosophy.
behaviour
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This presupposed that virtually all human behaviour was the result of social conditioning.
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Most journalists are students of human behaviour .
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The inclinations to treat animals kindly are grounded in the analogies to be observed in human behaviour .
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Complex human behaviour is seen as established sequences or chains of S-R bonds.
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The system represents a remarkable evolutionary adaptation of human behaviour patterns to the conditions of the rain forest.
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Some tendencies in human behaviour were encouraged, others repressed, and the results were both pleasant and unpleasant.
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There may even be unjustified assumptions about the rationality of human behaviour .
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Thirdly, they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system.
being
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When it came back, with another human being , the little figure had gone.
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Much the same applies to human beings .
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The human being prefers to be directed, wishing to avoid responsibility.
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Nevertheless, he was addressed by another human being .
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Fortunately, human beings do not learn in this way.
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I felt I was Impersonating a human being .
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But such mutual exchange is just what human beings are incapable of sustaining consistently.
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Could it possibly apply to human beings ?
body
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Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances.
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The canvas at his feet had wrinkled and kinked into the ghost contours of a human body .
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It seems to me about the most you can ask of the human body .
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The human body does not manufacture unlimited quantities of new lymphocytes.
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So what about sanitary towels and tampons: bleached products that also come into intimate contact with the human body ?
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Some herbs have a tranquilizing effect on the human body .
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Of course, any number of fascinating and nasty parasites can join this microbial community and make the human body their home.
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This stubborn persistence in life is directly due to the complexity of the human body .
brain
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Research has shown that the mechanisms in the human brain go through the anger response in less than a second.
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Environmentalists fear the gasoline additive prematurely ages the human brain .
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There are more human brain cells on this space station than there are stars in this galaxy.
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As similar as mouse brains are to human brains, mice are not men.
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The human brain shows a degree of complexity of a different order.
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That arrangement is, you know, rather like language in the human brain .
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The human brain is no exception.
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Capacity of the human brain is around 10 billion neurons with more than a thousand times that many interconnections.
condition
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Hypochondria is actually the commonest killer of the lot, when transferred from the human condition to one's pets.
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Humpty Dumpty: the purest embodiment of the human condition .
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This is, as Morrissey well knows, a perfectly natural human condition .
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Even the typewriters seemed to be muffled, recording discreetly the secrets of the human condition .
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Rational philosophy explored the human condition without the element of spirit.
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But in the larger view, I have done little for the human condition by bringing home the jackpots.
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For them to be able to do that, they have to embody a certain aspect of the human condition .
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He cared deeply for the human condition .
consciousness
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The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
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I picture the evolution of human consciousness in the shape of an hourglass.
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Hegel detected this dialectical progression in the progress of human consciousness and intellectual - emotional growth.
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But one thing it represents far me is this: the eternal conflict between the analytical and creative aspects of human consciousness .
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Marx none the less believed that an external reality did exist, and that human consciousness could understand it.
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What happens, then, if we substitute the cat with an ape-man, just at the dawn of human consciousness ?
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That obviously does not extend to the levels of awareness which human consciousness exhibits, but where do you draw the line?
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On the starry nighttime side of human consciousness , myth still lives and reigns.
consumption
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Where goat milk or milk products are used for human consumption , milk-withholding periods for different drugs should be observed.
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Water conflict is inherently local, depending upon neighborhood needs for human consumption , food production, industrial processes and waste treatment.
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Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years.
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Earth could probably support twenty to thirty billion people if farmland were used only to raise food for direct human consumption .
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He also sought to preserve wheat for human consumption and issued a proclamation prohibiting the manufacture of starch from wheat.
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One family in the Borders was growing 7.5 ha of swedes for human consumption .
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The poisonous snakes invite a certain deference, and the rattlesnake is even canned occasionally for human consumption .
dignity
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Regulated, socialised economies trample on human dignity , despoil the natural environment and depress economic performance.
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The relationship struck at the very roots of their human dignity .
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She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity , and the smoke of Revolution.
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And in this expectation, even were it to be misguided, there is certainly more human dignity .
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The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity .
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The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour.
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This belief runs counter both to demographics and to the demands of human dignity .
error
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Some of the human errors can be reduced, especially in calculations. 3.
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Given the climate, these places are vulnerable, and far too easily affected by the least human error or natural misfortune.
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Similar human error surfaces in other air pollution disasters such as at Seveso and Bhopal.
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He told the story of what had occurred as if it were a natural phenomenon, not mechanical failing or human error .
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But they were later blamed on human error .
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The crashes have been attributed to a variety of problems, from human error to software glitches to mechanical failure.
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This is not the time for reprisals, but let me stress that human error of this magnitude will not be tolerated.
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At the same time, computers helped sustained the trading frenzy prompted by human error .
experience
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Romantic suspense is what might be called the literature of the night side of human experience .
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Nothing in dance is foreign to human experience .
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Yet Moore did not think value could only occur in relation to human experience .
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It is not just an experience among others, but rather the very heart of human experience...
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They can be woven into the fabric of everyday life, the human experiences of trying and failing.
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What is to him the heights of human experience ?
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So utility in information media is not some absolute fact of human experience .
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Every facet of daily life was subject to a set of rigid institutional controls and physical sanctions entirely new to human experience .
eye
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No human eye had ever seen a hound like this one.
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There was the simplicity, death and its suggestion of permanence, that was almost too severe and stark for human eyes .
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The human eye has an active role to play in the story.
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The human eye and brain are much happier reading short to medium length unjustified lines although books are conventionally justified.
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To the human eye horses use five distinctly different facial expressions to suit different circumstances.
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In extreme cases the search for order among the chaos can become too difficult for the human eye alone.
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These cover a wide field of view without having to swivel as human eyes do.
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The role of the human eye was limited to selecting, among randomly mutated progeny over many generations of cumulative evolution.
face
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If successful, it will produce a deeper understanding of the human face recognition system.
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What he fails to do is to put a human face on these processes.
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They might be Capitalism with a human face .
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Food brought me back to the human face .
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In the dark, Seth would be his true self, his human face off but his dark glasses still on.
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They become bogeymen, earthly Aliens, and -- despite the fake human faces they develop -- very easy to spot.
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Gombrich makes him think of the readiness with which the eye recognizes the features of the human face .
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Whether a capitalist or socialist approach to development is adopted, it must be development with a human face .
form
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She preferred the animal forms to human forms and found them easier to draw.
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It dissolved into six human forms , each taking on the attributes of head and arms and limbs.
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Instead, he says, the Goddess was portrayed in human form .
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Golfers had reported seeing what looked like a human form wrapped in a brown shroud falling through the sky.
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In how this woman had painted it, she had changed it to a human form .
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In meditation, she met a cigarette in human form , to understand what functions smoking was serving for her.
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For convenience, this information is not stored in human form , but in some magnetic or electronic device.
habitation
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It stands in a field completely cut off from human habitation .
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The Clovis record has stood since the late 1930s, though numerous contenders for evidence of earlier human habitation have arisen.
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Dauntless was instantly suspicious because there had been no sign of human habitation for days.
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Remnants of ancient human habitation abound.
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The slums built during the Industrial Revolution soon became unfit for human habitation .
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It invented the suburb - the most successful invention in the history of human habitation .
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It took them two days before they reached human habitation .
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They pronounced the attic unfit for human habitation and Jean-Claude inadequate to support me.
health
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The resultant changes in regional species composition have many consequences for human health .
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The tests are designed to ensure that the waste does not cause significant damage to marine wildlife or human health .
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The convention establishes the principle that nothing that is harmful to human health and marine life can be dumped at sea.
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The docs' guesswork just goes to show how miraculously improbable human health really is.
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In addition, some packaging which comes into close contact with food has implications on human health and quality of food.
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Chiron will have exclusive rights to develop and market any resulting compounds that can be used for human health .
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They were a hazard to human health and to wildlife on land and sea.
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Inside the body, the virus is powerful and can be extremely damaging to human health .
history
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Science in truth is a deeply historical, inescapably collective pursuit that has unfolded throughout human history .
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Rarely in the annals of human history has any people committed so much of its treasure to such a noble cause.
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In fact, of course, the history of science is human history and human history never runs as logically as this.
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In fact, the Neolithic was possibly the most dynamic period in human history .
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In the whole of human history there is no record of any such similar happening.
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Myth is nothing but natural history , plus human history, in time-disguised and faith-distorted form.
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Rather it is to become part of a saving process which embraces the whole of man and all human history .
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Periods of punctuated equilibrium are equally visible in human history .
interest
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Undoubtedly, the human interest story of how I have managed to be a theoretical physicist despite my disability has helped.
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A human interest story, featuring the second-youngest Nobel laureate in history, seemed to him much more promising.
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The conflict was not lacking in human interest .
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It is the most exciting of all, the richest in human interest , and also the most dangerous.
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It represents an idealized view of the information needs of an area of particular human interest or activity.
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One clear fact is that those reasons relate entirely to human interests .
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For he is above all concerned to deny that the point of the universe is somehow to serve human interests .
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Gombe is still inaccessible by road - but despite its isolation, it hasn't lacked human interest .
life
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I believe firmly in the sanctity of human life-all human life.
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Only if human life is trivial.
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Nothing is sacred the United Nations flag, the Red Cross, and least of all human life .
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Olympus, removed from the mud and labor of human life .
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What about other games in human life ?
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Whether we do so directly or by implication, we place a value on human life .
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We pay the first cost on all human life .
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In fact the tension between individual desire and collective weal is present in almost all realms of human life .
mind
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But the human mind selects as well as stores.
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But maybe total understanding of everything is a bit much to ask of a tiny human mind .
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His response is to abandon the troubled human mind , and delve into the animal world instead.
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I deny such an idea; the human mind if it desires something strongly enough will achieve anything.
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Abstraction is a wonderful property of the human mind , which has given rise both to language and to modern science.
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Or was the human mind ready for being stretched, and perhaps into the next stage of development?
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Chomsky holds that the acquisition of language is internal to the human mind / brain.
nature
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In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.
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How can there be a universal, species-specific human nature when every human being is unique?
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The second and opposing view treats political events as the result of forces inherent in human nature .
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In general, one claim underpinning the human nature approach seems reasonable-we are not merely the product of our environment.
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This criticism challenges the view of human nature and the human condition constructed by liberal theories.
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Smith was realistic about human nature and idealistic about the necessity for the exercise of conscience in the marketplace.
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And since when have you been such an excellent student of human nature ?
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She understood human nature , which is the essence of politics.
need
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Sensibly, the 1994 United Nations conference on population and development in Cairo focused on human needs rather than human numbers.
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The single-parent family is a travesty of human needs .
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It encompasses both the art of spin doctoring and also our fragile human need and ability to make huge leaps of faith.
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Faith is so universal that most social scientists assume it meets a basic human need .
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In other words, human need is more important than Sabbath law.
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Meaningful work is satisfying because it is rooted in basic human needs .
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Is the goal to maximize corporate profits for the few or to meet all basic human needs and protect the Earth?
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He judges success by how effectively human needs are reconciled with the needs of the ecosystem.
race
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It was this kind of personal therapy that fortified Ocker Tyron's private contempt for the human race .
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Not drawn from a public relations kit, his picture of the future tapped into the oldest dreams of the human race .
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Twenty-five percent of the entire human race wiped out at one go.
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If you go back further still, the different human races soon merge.
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The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
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Perhaps the human race is beset by problems which it lacks the moral capital to resolve.
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Unlike most of his contemporaries, Darwin realized that the human race was not the predictable end-product of a universal progressive trend.
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He was so different from John in every way that it was amazing to think the human race could contain them both.
relationship
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And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships .
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Brookner probes with scrupulous attention, keen irony and a profound appreciation of the endless ambivalences that beset human relationships .
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It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them.
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Therefore a leader must be concerned about tasks and human relationships .
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It was one of Baldwin's rare failures in human relationships .
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The challenge in this book is to make the most of human relationships without becoming a victim. 2.
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To understand the workings of an organisation we need to impose the structure of human relationships on top of the formal structure.
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The novel has apocalyptic and millennial flourishes; it bites off the large issue of human relationships with animals.
resource
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What characteristics mark out a powerful human resources director, or a chief information officer?
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Managers were held accountable for a broader array of financial, strategic, and human resource outcomes.
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What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources .
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The directors of finance, human resources and the parks and recreation departments would no longer need this approval.
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Such efforts put heavy strains on the financial and human resources of the organization.
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Financial management and the complexities of human resource and contract management are the bread and butter skills of many modern businesses.
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Ed, manager of human resource development in a consumer goods company, illustrates such an approach.
sacrifice
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She may have originated with the notion of human sacrifice to ensure plentiful crops, for her actions were often bloodthirsty.
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There are also stories which point back clearly to a time when there was human sacrifice .
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Some certainly saw her as a kind of human sacrifice , albeit a willing one.
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Just as humans depend on plants to live, so the Gods depend on human sacrifices for a kind of sustenance.
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Hale's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer, a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture.
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Later accounts held that the Druids made Stonehenge, where they supposedly practiced human sacrifice .
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He was dressed as a wizard and the whole place was full of drawings of human sacrifices and magic designs.
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Believing gods were pacified by human blood, they killed thousands in human sacrifice .
society
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Eagleton could not put it more simply: Marxism is a scientific theory of human societies and the practice of transforming them.
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But what do those changes mean for the future of human society ?
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Cultural and social anthropology was then concerned with the evolution of human society and culture.
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The problem called by Mead the central issue of every human society arose: what to do with the males.
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They refused to accept Morgan's assertion that the gens and group marriage were characteristic of the earlier human societies .
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To flourish, human societies need a vision of something better.
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Without it there would be no human society .
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How, there, could one reform human society or even question it, when its organization reflected spiritual truth? 11.
spirit
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Addictive disease originates as a disease of the human spirit .
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I could sense the raw and sometimes dangerous expansiveness of the human spirit .
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I think you may learn something about the human spirit .
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Coleridge insisted, to both the natural world and the human spirit .
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In the end it is perhaps rather too tidy and symmetrical an affirmation of the human spirit .
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Santiago has crafted a poignant tale that celebrates the human spirit and the triumph of will.
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Yet, flickering behind the twisted snarl of resentment of self and the world, is a flame of human spirit .
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The experience certainly changed my comprehension of the human spirit .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
human interest/love interest
it's (only/just) human nature
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It's human nature to put off doing things you don't like to do.
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But it's human nature that people-male or female-will do what they are allowed to get away with.
the human race
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Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.
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The entire human race could be wiped out by nuclear war.
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Until then, no member of the human race had ever been able to make a map of the whole world.
the milk of human kindness
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And the milk of human kindness ... Hickory gets used to a new mum.
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It is not a thought soggy with the milk of human kindness.
unfit for human habitation
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In the 1960s, the flats were declared unfit for human habitation and demolished.
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Many of the housing projects are unfit for human habitation .
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The court was told that Blake had charged hundreds of dollars in rent for rooms that were unfit for human habitation .
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That single room was unfit for human habitation .
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The slums built during the Industrial Revolution soon became unfit for human habitation .
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They pronounced the attic unfit for human habitation and Jean-Claude inadequate to support me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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human behavior
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Bacteria cannot be seen with the human eye.
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the effects of pollution on the human and animal population
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The humor springs from basic human emotions like love and fear of failure.
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The incident made Herman seem more human to his fans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For all he knew it might not be unusual to unearth human bones in grounds such as these.
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It abhors all violence and relies upon moral education, love and sympathy to secure human progress.
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That the pioneers could hang on at all is monumental testimony to the tenacity of the human will.
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The potential applications seemed as boundless as the human imagination.
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Therefore, in throwing away his pipe, he intentionally cuts himself off from human pleasures and the ties of home.
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To argue that solutions only demean the grandeur of human ignorance?
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We can illustrate this by reference to a basic and familiar area of human social experience, courtship and marriage.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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being
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Perhaps a more important point is that human beings are not very efficient hosts for yellow-fever virus.
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The Goddess did not create human beings as a one-time event thousands of years ago.
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The judge grilled him: Have you talked to any human beings ?
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From that perspective human beings become a species, worth preserving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, of course, being known by another human leaves one open to incursion, to cast it in military parlance.
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He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human .
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I can't just let a human take over.
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To be treated like a human is a luxury, perhaps, in this age where jobs are scarce.