Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Normal flight calls , ‘ puihu ’ ( male ) and ‘ piah ’ ( female ) , shriller than and quite distinct from Buzzard 's ; various other calls at or near nest .
2 Ridges on the embryonic surface , representing the future genital organs , are present by the end of the fifth week and by six weeks the sexual glands ( the gonads ) are developing although as yet undifferentiated between male and female .
3 And that very excess of safety inspired some bright Vadinamians in to a galaxy-class piece of lateral thinking .
4 He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality .
5 Suggests a large long-legged gamebird and though mainly brown at rest shows a striking contrast in flight , with almost as much white as a flying Shelduck ( p. 51 ) .
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