Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the same sex " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the Danish Twin Registry ( using 4368 twin pairs of the same sex born from 1870 to 1910 ) found the following concordances . |
| 2 | In continuing to speak of healthy relationships between children and parents , Searles emphasised the resolution of the Oedipal strivings , not just by the child 's identification with the parents of the same sex , not just by the final taboo and containment of the feelings , but also by the parent 's renunciation of the reciprocated romantic feelings with a real sense of loss , and also by the love between the parents to which the child owed his existence . |
| 3 | The sexual struggle is of two kinds ; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex , generally the male sex , in order to drive away or kill their rivals , the females remain passive ; whilst in the other the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex , in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex , generally the females , which no longer remain passive , but select more agreeable partners . |
| 4 | The sexual struggle is of two kinds ; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex , generally the male sex , in order to drive away or kill their rivals , the females remain passive ; whilst in the other the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex , in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex , generally the females , which no longer remain passive , but select more agreeable partners . |
| 5 | Genoves ( 1959 ) , for example , found that its general shape in Anglo-Saxons was quite different from that in British mediaeval individuals of the same sex . |
| 6 | In later man , where it is necessary to study less outstanding differences between groups , series of at least forty or fifty skeletons of the same sex are needed before reliable statistical analyses are possible . |
| 7 | Indirect discrimination against a married person is similar in concept to indirect sex discrimination and may arise when a condition or requirement is applied equally to married and unmarried persons of the same sex but which is in fact discriminatory in its effect on married persons . |
| 8 | The central action revolves around persons of the same sex and figures of speech having the same gender reference as they themselves . |
| 9 | And any relation between members of the same sex which allowed their difference , did not assimilate both to one fantasy , would be heterosexual . ’ |
| 10 | Even in the case of the large church with a regular new members ' class , this may need to be supplemented by a sponsorship scheme in which the converts are matched with church members of the same sex and similar age and background , to help them find their feet and be introduced to the family . |
| 11 | first , that it was a consequence of competition between members of the same sex rather than between members of different sexes or species ; and , second , that it depended on variation in reproductive success rather than survival . |
| 12 | Finally , I had found in other experiments that birds show no consistent preferences for members of the same sex . |
| 13 | Clearly , however , gender differences do not explain differences in susceptibility to the hepatic effects of alcohol among members of the same sex . |
| 14 | A new and controversial question will find out how many couples of the same sex are partners ( or , more accurately , how many are prepared to report the fact ) . |
| 15 | This goes for couples of the same sex too , and for friends who live together . |
| 16 | Sexual selection depends on the success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ; whilst natural selection depends on the success of both sexes , at all ages , in relation to the general conditions of life . |
| 17 | Darwin 's argument emphasized that sexual selection depends on the ‘ success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ’ . |
| 18 | By matching the Swedish twin registry at the Department of Environmental Hygiene , Karolinska Institute , Stockholm , with the central diagnosis register of hospital inpatients at the National Board of Health and Welfare , a population of monozygotic or dizygotic twins of the same sex has been identified . |