Example sentences of "both [adj] [conj] female " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GREAT writers of the English novel are both male and female . |
| 2 | Worms are hermaphrodite — each one is both male and female , so any adult pair can reproduce , duly and dually , as it were . |
| 3 | Yet he was a kind of Christ figure , who entered the lives of ordinary people in a rich , bored , bourgeois family , made love to them all indifferently , both male and female , inexplicably , then left as mysteriously as he had come , deserting them in the hours of their greatest need . |
| 4 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 5 | The same medical model taught that both male and female had to produce the fluids necessary to conceive a child , and it seemed obvious that this occurred , in both sexes , with orgasm . |
| 6 | Medicine continues to be a very powerful system of knowledge , and although there are many differences between nineteenth century and twentieth century medicine , there is still at its heart a view of the body ( both male and female ) as a repository for disease . |
| 7 | In the majority of cases , where intercourse has taken place in the ‘ missionary position ’ ( woman lying on her back , man on top ) the natural eversion of the anal mucous membrane during intercourse has brought this sensitive skin into contact with the moisture ( in which the gonococcus can be found in quantity ) produced by both male and female as a result of their sexual exertions . |
| 8 | It is found significantly more often in the coloured races , both male and female , and whether this is due to some actual racial difference in susceptibility , or whether it simply reflects some general difference in the social pattern of spread of the disease is not clear . |
| 9 | Golf and fishing are the national sports of Scotland , for both male and female , and I remember Mother , who was also a moderate golfer , fishing on a river adjacent to a golf-course , avoiding the balls flying past her head , many of which flew straight into the river . |
| 10 | And the Moors entered Castille , in great power , for there came with them five Kings , and they past above Burgos , and crost the mountains of Oca , and plundered Carrion , and Vilforado , and Saint Domingo de la Calzada , and Logroño , and Najara , and all that land ; and they carried away many captives both male and female , and brood mares , and flocks of all kinds . |
| 11 | The ‘ she-male ’ character of the Bessy is not merely a woman impersonated by a man , but denotes a combination of both male and female , a total unity encompassing the whole in primitive man 's attempt to understand the universe . |
| 12 | Both male and female of the sexual form die after mating . |
| 13 | The dorsal and anal fins of both male and female are a light burgundy to purple at the base , darkening at the outside , and they appear to be covered in small iridescent blue spots that are particularly striking under the right light . |
| 14 | Both male and female have a black longitudinal band and the characteristic Apistogramma eye-stripe . |
| 15 | In previous lives we have been both male and female , both bad and good . |
| 16 | Of course , all religions have elements of both male and female within them ; Christianity has the Virgin Mary , and its mystics have described the ‘ deep and dazzling darkness ’ which they must enter to know God . |
| 17 | The individual , both male and female , is responsible for mastering emotions and the poisonous creative powers within the person which come from the crystal boxes of the Tianawa gods ( see below ) . |
| 18 | The extent of the frustration and demoralisation among junior doctors , both male and female , has been documented by Allen . |
| 19 | In the Bazadais , Bordelais , Agenais , Pays d'Albret , the Landes , Marsan , Gabardan , Tursan , Capbreton , Auribat and the prevôté of St Sever , inheritances were divided , sometimes among all heirs , both male and female . |
| 20 | A significant proportion of these younger interviewees , both male and female , simply ignored the knowledge beginning to accumulate . |
| 21 | This means that each adult Korean both male and female , must have been a member of eight organisations — which one must recognise as absurd . |
| 22 | There a scrum of excited adults , both male and female , surround it . |
| 23 | Someone else had watched , in icky fascination , two large slugs in the process of a slimy mating ; a complicated business , for each slug is both male and female , and both ooze away to lay eggs ! |
| 24 | Dogs , both male and female , make excellent pets . |
| 25 | In both male and female controls systolic pressures rose significantly ( p<0.001 ) from 128 to 134 mm Hg and from 124 to 131 mm Hg respectively , but there was no significant change in diastolic pressure ( 79 and 78 mm Hg respectively on both occasions ) . |
| 26 | Two examples are given below , thus : * Consumer criteria : UK demand segment for low cost European travel : age range : concentrated between 18 to 30 ; sex : both male and female ; socio-economic class : A B1 B2 C1 ; occupation : predominantly full-time student ; source of finance : parental ; casual holiday or part-time earnings ; special factors : access to discount arrangements ; hold student travel cards ; personality indicators : innovative behaviour , tendency to extraversion , high tolerance of low standards of travel and accommodation modes . |
| 27 | She supervised all the other vibrancers , both male and female , and choreographed performances . |
| 28 | While the Board believes its patients were not put in jeopardy by the HIV doctor , his many sexual partners — both male and female — could be in real danger . |
| 29 | 1 The patients studied were both male and female who had been admitted to hospital for elective surgery . |
| 30 | The treatment of the schoolboy rapist was raised in anger by several pupils , both male and female . |