I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a female perspective
▪ Carson's lyrics are definitely written from the human experience, but from a female perspective.
a female/male companion
▪ Do you know who his female companion was?
a male/female employee
▪ The majority of the female employees are under 30.
a male/female occupation (=a job that traditionally is done by men or women)
▪ traditional female occupations such as nursing
female condom
female form
▪ The female form is a thing of beauty.
male/female friends
▪ Most of my male friends are married now.
male/female sexuality
▪ a study of male sexuality
the female/male body
▪ his drawings of the female body
the male/female line
▪ This particular gene is passed down through the male line.
youth/male/female unemployment (=the number of young people/men/women unemployed)
▪ Youth unemployment there has reached 50 percent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
▪ En route they collected data on how the female body reacts to extreme conditions.
▪ The story suggests a male terror of both the female body and the realities of death.
▪ The final section will discuss her representation of the female body, especially in relation to contemporary ideals of beauty.
▪ Early art, especially the wall art and the figurines, show the spiritual power of the female body.
▪ I go through every part of the female body in turn.
▪ For tens of thousands of years the creative power of the divine female body dominated spiritual awareness.
▪ Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.
character
▪ In Amalgamemnon the central female character takes an overtly subversive approach.
▪ That Storni felt identified with her female characters, even in the farces, is obvious.
▪ The female characters, too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.
▪ I cut down its technological ambitions in order to introduce a central female character.
▪ As regards the long-term goals of the male and female characters in this story, there is little evidence available.
employee
▪ Once he ordered one of the directors to leave a female employee alone.
▪ As luck would have it, two of the female employees in the department were pregnant.
▪ Sheila Redmond is also looking at the possibility of arranging talks on the menopause for female employees.
▪ Ultimately, they were assured of a cheap and exploitable labor force through the constant turnover of young, female employees.
▪ Male and female employees were represented by separate union locals until 1977.
▪ That interpretation was widely viewed as favoring business over minority and female employees attempting to charge job discrimination.
▪ A female employee is known to associate after work with a sexually active crowd of young people.
experience
▪ The bull, then, becomes an example of the unity of male and female experience within physical reality.
▪ Birthtales looks forward to the day when these female experiences are considered to be a valid subjects for inclusion in galleries.
▪ Later life is predominantly a female experience.
▪ Despite the fact that she sings about uniquely female experience, she denies having feminist leanings.
▪ The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole.
form
▪ The further from the natural a female form, the more feminine it is.
▪ Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms.
▪ It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond.
▪ Here, too, we find subtle combinations of male imagery with essentially female forms.
▪ A much more acceptable female form.
▪ But the family fortune rested on the female form.
▪ In 1877 he observed the adult male and female forms.
▪ The female form is more beautiful.
friend
▪ I didn't call any female friends, for the idea was to take Jo out.
▪ She began to see possibilities as her female friends began asking for some important advice.
▪ Sitting nearby in seats costing £1,021 return were a female friend and two detectives.
▪ Summary Despite the problems that women students felt, they did not envy their female friends studying other courses.
▪ Whatever the reason, it's certainly all my female friends that stand gazing into the black puddles with me.
▪ Many women have a long term close female friend -- but they don't sleep with them!
▪ He wished one of his female friends were here.
labour
▪ There is some evidence of modest influences, among many others, of the female labour market on family building patterns.
▪ The increasing division of labour in potting pioneered by Wedgwood also used female labour for patterning and decorating.
▪ Part-time female labour is particularly important.
▪ These preliminary results suggest the desirability of looking beyond the female labour market for an adequate characterization of economic influences on fertility.
▪ This analysis shows how sensitive these measures are to varying assumptions about unemployment and female labour for Participation.
▪ The guild also contributed regularly to investigations undertaken by the Labour Department of the Board of Trade into female labour.
▪ Until they are, female labour at half rates will have a dangerous effect on the printing trade in general.
▪ In pastoral areas a high demand for female labour persisted, and in the dairying regions even increased.
lead
▪ Sam, 26, played the female lead in a version of the movie hit Grease.
▪ The trio of female leads are all outstanding.
▪ So far no progress with the female lead.
▪ She was the female lead and therefore a rival.
▪ Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead.
line
▪ Egg colour itself is inherited down the female line, so that females stay with the bird by whom they were fostered.
▪ X genes are not the only genes inherited through the female line.
▪ Incidentally, this means that we can use mitochondria to trace our ancestry, strictly down the female line.
▪ Aberration, if it occurred, was not recorded, and the female line took second place.
▪ She told me all about you and Gittel, and how you called down the curse on Gittel's female line.
member
▪ At eighteen, she's the youngest female member in the history of the Magic Circle.
▪ One person familiar with their work said there have been some sharp differences of thinking between the male and female members.
▪ In a recent survey, the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless.
▪ Two years ago female members of Congress pushed to relocate the statue to the Rotunda.
▪ The examination was conducted in the presence of a female nurse and a female member of the Royal Military Police.
▪ Our four female members were the only women in the audience.
▪ Are inheritance practices basically inegalitarian, discriminating in particular against female members of rural households?
nude
▪ Elizabeth Jerichau-Baumann's undated painting Odalisque subscribes to the stereotypes of the female nude propagated by her male counterparts.
▪ The beautiful female nudes in this show, rendered large and golden, are at once sensual, heroic and strong.
▪ The female nude has been conceived as an expression of fundamental principles of order and design.
▪ Chapter 4 considers why the female nude played so prominent a part in the making of modern art practice.
▪ In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
▪ The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art, from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.
▪ Everyone else in the class is working on a reclining female nude.
▪ Representing the female nude After thirty or so years of scholarship, feminism now has a relatively well-established position within art history.
patient
▪ In one female patient, the body ulcer was later identified as a gastric lymphoma and surgical resection was done.
▪ Kidney stones can also form as a result of an infection, but this is more likely in female patients.
▪ For a very large female patient, or one who has extremely poor balance, a wraparound skirt may be more practical.
▪ Subjects - 6528 male and female patients providing 54355 years of follow up.
▪ Incident and fatal cancers were not significantly increased in male or female patients taking atenolol.
▪ We describe a female patient who developed both these conditions, the treatment of which was unsatisfactory until a thymectomy was performed.
▪ Around one in five of the nurses and 38% of the doctors felt that female patients discriminated against nurses who were male.
▪ There were 2101 male patients and 3 female patients in the group.
role
▪ With no major female roles in the year's remaining releases insiders believe the only question is who else gets nominated.
▪ I flushed with teenage resentment of the female role I was supposed to assume.
▪ They form monogamous pairs and, within the pair, take turns to play the male and female roles.
▪ I think women see her as a real female role model.
▪ In contrast it is difficult to think of a deviant female role which is not perceived as damaging to its protagonist.
▪ They were the ultimate female role models: highly unusual, gifted, respected women.
▪ When they are present they are present for the most part performing female roles as defined by that society.
▪ Minuses: A quietly emotive, unshowy performance in a year of attention-getting female roles.
sexuality
▪ But, in addition, they implied that O'Keeffe's work was a revelation of female sexuality.
▪ Indeed, this intelligent and controlled female sexuality is what makes human communities possible.
▪ The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.
▪ They seem fortunate to some because they are left to pursue young women without being caught in the coils of female sexuality.
▪ What is strikingly absent in nineteenth-century thought is any concept of female sexuality which is independent of men's.
▪ Rather than a brief performance, female sexuality is a long, unfolding process.
▪ The heroine, Maryska, is the personification of female sexuality.
▪ In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality.
student
▪ Many of the female students had been academic failures at school and had negative attitudes to teachers.
▪ He was arrested five other times from 1991-93 on charges such as exposing himself to a female student and urinating in public.
▪ It may appear that male and female students are polarized on the basis of biology.
▪ And what of the female students whose consent is genuine?
▪ A 19 year old female student from Bath University was charged by Essex police with unlawful imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm.
▪ A break-down in the number of male and female students shows that the number of female graduates is still inadequate.
▪ She was the female student of her year.
▪ He said that he had felt humiliated in front of his suite mates and in front of female students.
voice
▪ Nassim was not available, a female voice told me.
▪ The too familiar husky female voice startled her into full wakefulness.
▪ The solo quartet was not always well balanced, but individually the two female voices were particularly striking.
▪ A female voice answered approximately a minute later.
▪ They heard footsteps, then a female voice.
▪ Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light.
▪ He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered.
worker
▪ The second important trend has been the slight narrowing of the differentials between male and female workers in full-time occupation.
▪ Several of the female workers who have sued Mitsubishi say the department had been unresponsive and ineffective.
▪ Clearly, designing for fit young men in the armed forces has different constraints from designing for middle-aged female workers in manufacturing.
▪ For female workers the corresponding proportions were 76.5 percent and 87.5 percent respectively.
▪ The industrial censuses of 1946 and 1965 showed a decline in female workers from 22 percent to 18 percent.
▪ The apparent reproductive suicide of a female worker is, as a result, a matter of biological self-interest.
▪ The female workers can not lay eggs.
▪ The equivalent figures for female workers were £68 and £83 respectively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
male/female bonding
▪ Do a little female bonding - go shopping or out for a big lunch with a friend.
▪ A whole series of male clubs sprang up which emphasised the elements of male bonding.
▪ Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends.
▪ First, the male - female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions.
peculiarly British/female/middle-class etc
▪ Cellulite is a peculiarly female problem in which the hormone oestrogen plays a part.
the black/female/Russian etc experience
▪ It must recognize the validity of the black experience in a white-dominated world.
▪ The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole.
▪ The powers that be were not interested in continuing that serious focus on the black experience.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Female students tend to get better grades than male students.
▪ Emma is the only female lawyer that the firm has ever employed.
▪ In Tokyo, the number of female taxi drivers is up 75% since 1972.
▪ Many women reject the traditional female roles of wife and mother.
▪ Notice the distinguishing marks of the female spider.
▪ Patience and kindness are often seen as female qualities.
▪ the female reproductive system
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A string of female rulers, from Boudicca to Margaret Thatcher, gives the lie to that idea.
▪ Among female singers, Jessye Norman has a highly enthusiastic following, in part because opera appearances are rare.
▪ Five female officers remain on the 78-member force; two of them, including Ferguson, are on leave.
▪ He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place.
▪ I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned.
▪ What about the differences between the male and female brain?
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
▪ For instance, an adult female will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.
▪ The adult females were domesticated, such as it was, and they tried to return to their cages.
▪ Capturing the animals entails shooting the adult females, whose skulls are sold to tourists.
▪ Adult males came in at 10 hours a week, adult females and college students at 9 hours, teen-agers at 7.
▪ Overall 15 percent of adult females and 12 percent of males defined themselves as carers.
▪ In this box there was adult female and four youngsters.
▪ Immature females interacted with adult females primarily when the latter were lactating; immature males did so when they were in oestrus.
dominant
▪ Males are usually dominant to females.
▪ Nevertheless, the dominant female still ends up with most eggs.
▪ The advantages of female access to dominant females is less clear.
human
▪ Its distinction between human males and human females was almost complete.
▪ The early human female could not have gone this way alone.
▪ He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle, the male the active.
▪ The type of character that almost convinces you that some human females secrete pheromones.
▪ Most people were aware that Gharr was there, but the news seemed to be mainly of interest to human females.
▪ Some owners notice that their cats love human females and hate or fear human males.
▪ For a human female this would be like having a baby in her mid-sixties.
▪ The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall.
large
▪ The commonest and most widespread of the larger gulls, very variable in size; males average larger than females.
▪ In general, however, the larger females are about 20 feet, and even they are rare.
▪ These deer tend to form large herds, and during the breeding season males defend large harems of females.
▪ When he dies, the largest female simply changes gender.
▪ As a result, males in these species are usually noticeably larger than the females.
▪ The brilliant epaulettes of the male red-winged blackbird may be a help in attracting a large number of females to his territory.
▪ Young males at this size already show a lot of colour and are noticeably larger than females.
old
▪ By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example.
▪ An eighteen-year-#old female first-year student claimed she was raped during a fraternity party while at least five other men watched.
▪ The recent study found that 10 percent of the two year old females were breeding.
▪ Chimpanzees find old females just as attractive as young ones as long as both are in estrus.
▪ What pressures might there be on older females, and males, to shoplift?
single
▪ Eight or nine men are convicted of crimes for every single female.
▪ Some are ruled by single females, in a society even more rigid than that of a beehive.
▪ Four single black females dissect the failings of the modern male in a riotously rude fashion.
▪ They can smell the bombykol released by a single female, at a distance of over a mile.
▪ In monogamy, a single male pairs with a single female.
▪ Fruit flies can be manipulated to put foreign X chromosomes-one from each of two species-in a single female.
▪ Others are less successful and may get only a single female or even remain unmated.
small
▪ In the Nematoda, the sexes are separate and the males are generally smaller than the females which lay eggs or larvae.
▪ And in her species, males are small, females large.
▪ In experiments larger males are much better at dislodging smaller males from females than viceversa.
▪ Bigger females were not much more likely to have more babies than small females.
▪ A small proportion of females have a rusty-red plumage, distinct from the normal grey colour.
▪ Conversely, a small male does worse than a small female because he fails to win a mate at all.
▪ Matters are made even more hazardous for the male because he is nearly always smaller than the female.
▪ Yet large males are in the minority among their peers, and are much smaller than the females.
white
▪ A brown and white female appeared with a crane fly in her beak.
▪ The Union reflected the workforce, as the whole organization is white female dominated and infused with a liberal social conscience.
young
▪ The young females tend to fly off and look for mates elsewhere.
▪ It occurs predominantly in younger females who are anxious and depressed, although older people also may be affected.
▪ A young female wants to dance and enjoy herself, I know.
▪ Very rarely is the message sent that exciting young females could be scientists or technologists.
▪ And very good at it he was, too, although he was a little over-enthusiastic, especially where young females were concerned.
▪ Their progeny mate inside the fig before the young females disperse to new figs.
▪ This prompts the question as to whether young females lay down less fat in species showing reversed size dimorphism.
▪ The behaviour of young males and females in Seyfarth's study already foreshadowed the adult outcome.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adult males came in at 10 hours a week, adult females and college students at 9 hours, teen-agers at 7.
▪ Each species chooses to exploit the senses that its females are best at detecting.
▪ One of the females put the last tray on a trolley and wheeled it past Masklin.
▪ The female of the species performs her mating dance.
▪ The co-operation is understandable in evolutionary terms as the males and females in a single-female syconium are brothers and sisters.
▪ The male then chases the female away.
▪ The trained females who have calves at foot keep their young with them as they work.
▪ Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much, grew a little too possessive?