Example sentences of "animals [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unnecessary suffering ? ’ , last night 's Natural Concern programme ( BBC 2 ) , began with shots of the cuddly toys and cartoons with which modern children are sold the lie that ‘ animals are whimsical , endearing extensions of ourselves ’ : the emotions which lead people to stick up for animals , that is , can be branded as essentially childish . |
| 2 | Toil , weather , human character and the quirks of animals are all graphically rendered , as well as the way in which newly-lifted potatoes glow ‘ like children 's shoulders after a day in the sun ’ , or in which the voice of a once-active young man now crippled by an accident becomes ‘ far-away , like a priest 's voice at the altar ’ . |
| 3 | The current owners farm the two herds on the estate on a commercial basis - though sentimentalists need not worry , as the animals are reared for breeding purposes rather than the dinner table . |
| 4 | Many animals are diurnal — that is they are active in the daytime and inactive at night — whereas nocturnal creatures show the opposite orientation . |
| 5 | Hundreds of thousands of these animals are dying at man 's hand every year . |
| 6 | Although large animals are generally more efficient at walking than small ones — just as trains outperform cars — the camel is in an altogether different league . |
| 7 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 8 | Establishment of reserves for the Indus River dolphin in the Punjab , where no more than 80 animals are thought to remain . |
| 9 | Participating in a traditional bloody ritual called the grynd , that dates back over the centuries , Faroe Islanders each year herd large schools of pilot whales into shallow waters and then , with man and whale alike thrashing in red blood-stained water , the animals are gaffed , speared , or knifed to death . |
| 10 | For example injured and dying animals are not included in the limit the US tuna boats are officially allowed to kill each year . |
| 11 | Animal-welfare activists published a brochure with a photograph of a dewy-eyed puppy and fluffy kitten on the cover ; the same two animals are shown inside , dead after euthanasia . |
| 12 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 13 | Between now and then , the row that biotechnology generates is going to make everyone think anew about what animals are for . |
| 14 | By using the word ‘ altruistic ’ biologists do not wish to imply that animals are actuated by a concern for others , as will be obvious from the fact that they have written of altruistic behaviour not only in social insects but also in plants and even in viruses . |
| 15 | If , as implied although not explicitly stated in the Origin , man was descended from other animals , it was no longer possible , or so it seemed , to regard human behaviour as the product of the will , and at the same time to accept Descartes 's view that animals are machines . |
| 16 | About a third of the animals are found again . |
| 17 | Many animals are lighter underneath than on the back , or ‘ counter-shaded ’ . |
| 18 | On to the beauty of Big Sur country ; Carmel , where Doris Day runs a guest house where animals are not only welcome but expected ; and Monterey , where Steinbeck 's Cannery Row is , sadly , overwhelmed with souvenir shops and seafood restaurants . |
| 19 | These animals are sometimes termed ‘ cold-blooded ’ . |
| 20 | These animals are known as primates , a group that includes the galagoes or bush babies of Africa , the tamarins and marmosets of South America , and man himself . |
| 21 | These delightful animals are distantly related to the better known Giant Panda . |
| 22 | The animals are not the only attraction at the Wildlife Park . |
| 23 | The mating systems of these animals are often dependent upon the dispersion patterns of the females and these in turn are related to patterns of optimum food exploitation . |
| 24 | Closely knit groups of interacting and co-operating animals are common in some 6o bird species , in wolves , wild dogs , mongooses , elephants , and in many primates . |
| 25 | The scattered nature of the food evidently makes dispersed foraging essential , since the animals are slow-moving and cover a small area each day . |
| 26 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 27 | As more animals are introduced , males seek to maximize the number of compatible relations with females while the latter seek to make their relation with a particular male exclusive . |
| 28 | The skeleton of all echinoderms except the sea cucumbers is a relatively strong assembly of calcite plates ; the animals are built from an interlocking mosaic of such plates , and mostly the skeletons are rigid enough to have a high chance of fossilization . |
| 29 | Lobster-like animals are found as far back as the Triassic , and both crabs and lobsters are frequent and appealing fossils in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks . |
| 30 | These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples . |