Preposition: as

• method: Beheading is effective and is probably as humane as any other modern method if carried out correctly.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Art makes people humane, forms a wholesome personality; moreover, art is able to correct psychological pathologies.

Modifies a noun

• killing: All models end with humane killing by anesthetic overdose.

• slaughter: As for humane slaughter, it's no better than saying " we have built a better gas chamber " .

• traps: Poison or back breaker or humane traps can be purchased from DIY shops, hardware stores or garden centers.

• stunner: In the late 1920s, the association carried out an eight month demonstration of the humane stunner at an Islington slaughterhouse.

• euthanasia: At the time, Rhodes claimed ignorance about any laws concerning humane euthanasia of animals.

• endpoints: Animals will be observed regularly during and after dosing and humane endpoints have been defined.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: A poetically realized and deeply humane vision of war, concerned primarily with the people and the places affected by hostilities taking place elsewhere.

• truly: This is an obligation of a truly humane society toward all human beings.

• relatively: It is a relatively humane method of catching a fox.

• very: This is what Rita Verdonk calls a " very good, very humane " policy.

• only: No, a bullet in the back of the head is the only humane thing to do.

• not: But we must face the fact that the current solution is not humane and it is far from the best approach.

Infinitive complement

• use: It is more humane to use software which minimizes the executions.

• make: It is not humane to make desperate people prey to unscrupulous and illegal trafficking gangs.

• allow: Then those supporting euthanasia would argue that it is more humane to allow people to choose to receive a lethal injection.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In so doing, I hope that they help us all become more humane.

• consider: The natural death of such a wild animal will occur by starvation, disease or injury, none of which can be considered humane.

Preposition: than

• hunting: I can't understand how the League Against Cruel Sports and the RSPCA can say this is more humane than hunting.