Example sentences of "male [conj] female [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you work more effectively with a male or female therapist ? |
| 2 | What is also taking place is the formation of sexual identity , the growing allegiance to male or female gender through identification with one or other parent . |
| 3 | Modern botanical science knows a lot about dominant and recessive genes ( which characteristics are dominant over others ) but despite all the science , the one thing that you can be sure about is that there is no certainty about which characteristics of either male or female parent will show through in their progeny . |
| 4 | The fact that the song and the receptor change together in the hybrids suggests that there is some control mechanism which prevents the two from becoming uncoupled from each other ; such a mechanism would have the effect of making it more likely that , whenever a male or female cricket changed its song or song-preference during evolution , some other individual of the other sex will have made the complementary change . |
| 5 | However , in the study , it made no significant difference whether a male or female teacher directed class activities . |
| 6 | In order to pay for their drugs , many users get involved in crime including house breaking and male or female prostitution . |
| 7 | Here , there are no strictly male or female tasks or roles ( there are even a few female ‘ headmen ’ ) ; there are no purely male or female personality attributes ; there is no gender difference in access to ritual knowledge , no ‘ men 's clubs ’ or ‘ men 's houses ’ ; and there are no puberty rites or other rites of passage defining differential ideals of manhood and womanhood . |
| 8 | These data indicate that consultation with either male or female family members can have the effect on women sectioned , of producing less lengthy compulsory admission . |
| 9 | There was little difference , however , between GP and other referrals in the rate of male or female consultation in relation to section 2 and in female consultation with regard to non admissions . |
| 10 | The difference between male and female GP referrals was noticeable : five of the eight males referred ( 63 per cent ) were sectioned , compared with only 12 ( 38 per cent ) of female referrals . |
| 11 | The difference between the male and the female experience of lab work is partly a difference between male and female upbringing ; writers like Kelly ( 1981a ) have been quite correct to point out that women are disadvantaged in science because of their lack of experience with scientific toys , machines and so on in childhood . |
| 12 | Male and female avocet , dunlin , redshank , common sandpiper , curlew , turnstone , black-tailed god wit , golden plover , ringed plover and little ringed plover — each ( according to the encyclopaedic Birds of the Western Pale arctic ) normally plays a more or less equal part in the incubation and brooding of the young . |
| 13 | Male and female principle . |
| 14 | The experiment revealed a complex interaction between male and female dominance rank and visibility of the mother in determining male responses to infants and female behaviour towards males . |
| 15 | It contained a 15-second sequence of copulation , and shots of male and female masturbation . |
| 16 | The sex hormones are responsible for the distinguishable difference between the male and female voice . |
| 17 | In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality . |
| 18 | Cholesterol is also the starting point for the body 's manufacture of bile acids ( which are need for the digestion of fat ) , steroids ( including those all-important male and female sex hormones ) and vitamin D ( which is made by the action of sunlight on cholesterol in the skin ) . |
| 19 | Some forms are hermaphroditic , having both male and female sex cells in the same animal while others have individuals of either sex . |
| 20 | This turned to despair when they discovered many male and female camp followers had not left with the army , but had decided to stay there . |
| 21 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 22 | The Rape of Lucretia , for instance , is encased within a Christian commentary provided by a male and female narrator . |
| 23 | Male and female take turns to perch on the bulky drum-nest of seaweed , incubating the single stained white egg . |
| 24 | Both male and female call before mating , the male with his ‘ cuck-oos ’ and the female with her ‘ bubble ’ call . |
| 25 | I mean , I did try and and make a male and female split all the way round , on the basis that all team male and all female team done it earlier . |
| 26 | Siann concludes that evidence from hormonal studies and ethology is extremely ambiguous and that no conclusions can be drawn with regard to male and female behaviour or emotions , and that psychoanalytic approaches can not produce any firm answers on questions of sex and gender ( Siann 1985 : 33–9 , 82–4 , 123–8 ) . |
| 27 | If a male and female cricket of two closely-related species are forced to mate , some hybrid offspring will be produced . |
| 28 | Male and female classification is simple . |
| 29 | We can therefore interpret our findings as evidence that what the community agrees on in this case is a pattern of stable differentiation over two generations between male and female usage . |
| 30 | Ratios of variation in male and female success can be used to estimate the relative rate at which male and female characteristics can change . |