Example sentences of "[adj] than gender " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) . |
| 2 | It is possible and indeed likely that context is more important than gender in determining how cooperative or competitive speakers are . |
| 3 | It is evident from this quotation that the grammarians were mainly motivated not by considerations of linguistic naturalness or logic ( for example , the clash of singular and plural implicit in the use of they ; and as Bodine points out , why in any case is number concord more important than gender concord ? ) but quite explicitly by sexism . |
| 4 | Moreover , the stereotype of women 's behaviour stresses the differences between ‘ all women ’ and ‘ all men ’ at the expense of exploring differences among women , or even the possibility that factors other than gender itself may be important in explaining supposed differences . |
| 5 | Theories of socialization also tend to provide implicitly biological explanations of social relations other than gender . |
| 6 | Feminists have used Lacanian ideas to extend their specific understandings of differences other than gender . |
| 7 | In all these approaches , influences on language other than gender are skated over . |