Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] female " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since sociologists of deviance are interested in why people become deviant and/or perpetrate criminal acts , it is obviously important to locate the deviant , whether male or female , squarely within the social context in which he or she becomes deviant . |
| 32 | Spouses as carers are equally likely to be male or female , whereas children as carers are almost exclusively female . |
| 33 | Thus she concludes that being male or female gives one a distinctive viewpoint which should be included in any theory of human beings . |
| 34 | Here it is important to know ( a ) whether male and female ideals diverge : whether , that is , the moral outlook people have depends in some causally related way on whether they are male or female , and ( b ) whether the ideals themselves are gender-relative : that is to say , whether what is good in a woman or right for a woman might not be bad in a man , or wrong for a man , and vice versa . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Males can take either an active or passive part in this activity , and can be the active partner with a variety of objects , male or female . |
| 37 | Children 's toys , for example ( dolls or ‘ Action Man ’ ) , clothes ( pink for a girl , blue for a boy ) and names help to establish and define stereotypical patterns of behaviour associated with being male or female . |
| 38 | Of course to be a human one has to be male or female , Jew or Gentile : a being which did not have sex and race would not be human . |
| 39 | But it is still the case that through the reading of it in church a certain image of what it means to be male or female is conveyed . |
| 40 | Good looks and youth never hurt your chances of success whether you are male or female . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | When , in nineteen fifty eight when Co Cossors were bringing , started bringing their workers here the Development Corporation were very anxious to let houses and , so that it , it did n't matter whether the worker was male or female , he or she was accepted as a tenant , by the time we came to move in Harlow in nineteen sixty three the Development Corporation reneged on its promise to house my wife . |
| 43 | During emergencies , when indigenous tribes attacked , every available person , male or female , would be brought into the common fight for survival . |
| 44 | Because they are highlighted , so too is the gender specificity of the body and the bodily experience — the constructions of the body that go to make it male or female . |
| 45 | Erm , I do n't think either a father or a mother intrinsically has to be necessary , I think what 's important is that children should have access to a variety of loving adults , one or two , or maybe three of those who they should have a special relationship with , does n't matter whether they 're male or female , so long as the , the children are loved and they feel secure and happy , it does n't matter about , you know , this is mother , this is father . |
| 46 | Are you male or female ? |
| 47 | Was it male or female ? |
| 48 | ‘ … Somebody you did n't know — male or female — tying you up , leaving you helpless , somewhere where shouting could n't help you , and there was a big sharp knife under the bed … how would you have felt then ? ’ |
| 49 | You ca n't tell whether the person is male or female . |
| 50 | In addition to gender distinctions in the third-person singular and plural , Arabic has different forms for ‘ you ’ , depending on whether the person or persons addressed is/are male or female . |
| 51 | Diane Blakemore for instance uses she and her to mean any person , male or female : |
| 52 | It will not show whether you are male or female . |
| 53 | She mused , but without real curiosity , on what he might be doing at this very moment to that unknown cadaver , young or old , male or female . |
| 54 | 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 |
| 55 | Whereas other communities will have father 's brother and mother 's brother and other ones still will then have different words depending on whether you 're male or female . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Are they male or female , British , American , Australian , etc , or dialectal ? |
| 59 | We inherit attributes from a male and a female parent , but each of us is either male or female , not hermaphrodite . |
| 60 | This criterion is intended to signal the need for a healthy scepticism concerning the supposition , embodied in the HMI report The School Curriculum ( 1981 ) , that given equal access to educational resources , the strengths of each child , male or female , would be more fully realized . |