Example sentences of "[adj] for the human [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 2 | That it 's almost impossible for the human brain to concentrate for more than ten minutes of time on any |
| 3 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 5 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 6 | Of vistas of stars set at distances too great for the human mind to comprehend ? |
| 7 | The personal dynamism required to counter the forces of these extremes of weather would be far too great for the human frame . |
| 8 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 9 | In extreme cases the search for order among the chaos can become too difficult for the human eye alone . |
| 10 | Moreover , it is difficult for the human mind to pay attention to the interpersonal actions and to the substantive issues at the same time . |
| 11 | Malebranche had argued , moreover , that the argument from the relativity of perception was just as applicable to primary qualities such as extension and motion : what looks small to me will seem large to a mite ; some movements may be too slow for the human eye to detect . |
| 12 | It was boycotted , however , by over 100 organizations and groups , including the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , the European Communities ( EC ) , and the French and United Kingdom governments , in protest at visa restrictions imposed by the US immigration authorities on those tested as positive for the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) which could caused AIDS . |