Example sentences of "is male [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence placed enormous emphasis on the duality of , and opposition between , the male and female principles : ‘ except in infinity , everything of life is male or female , distinct ’ ( Phoenix , 443 ) . |
| 2 | The moral outlook a person has may — though this is , of course , only a statistical or average truth — depend on whether that person is male or female . |
| 3 | You ca n't tell whether the person is male or female . |
| 4 | Er I might say if keep a little check list of whether each person you ask is male or female or how old they are |
| 5 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee now recommends that , whether the victim is male or female , the maximum penalty for non-consensual buggery should be life imprisonment . |
| 6 | The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " . |
| 7 | The question of whether God is male or female is supremely bad theology . |
| 8 | I do n't really understand why so many galleries seem to be closed to women , but it does n't make any difference to me whether an artist is male or female . |
| 9 | At fifteen weeks the cub 's too young to be approached so keepers still do n't know if it is male or female . |
| 10 | , , dream occasionally in n it strange ? , help is one goldfish is male or female , how 's one know whether to call it James or Jessica or I have n't the faintest idea how you sex a fish . |