Example sentences of "[adv] male or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 2 | The transsexual individual , although unquestionably male or female in physical and genital appearance and gender , has an intense feeling of being a man trapped in woman 's form , or vice versa and , usually , an obsessive need for sexual realignment . |
| 3 | The birth weight of newborn infants , either male or female , first increases steeply with maternal age up to about age 25 years ( on the average by 300 grammes ) , then slower to about age 35 , when it reaches the zenith and , from this age , begins to decrease , continuing to the end of the childbearing ages . |
| 4 | We inherit attributes from a male and a female parent , but each of us is either male or female , not hermaphrodite . |
| 5 | A bisyllabic pet name could be either male or female , but a monosyllabic one is much more likely to be male . |
| 6 | ( To explain : some genetic conditions mostly occur in one sex , either male or female . |