Example sentences of "[adv] read or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is first to admit she would be an extremely difficult patient if she could not read or think . |
| 2 | Native speakers do not read or pay equal attention to everything within a discourse . |
| 3 | She did not read or sew any more , but used to sit there silently , staring into the distance . |
| 4 | But for the remainder of the Fifties the initiative was seized in the Soviet Union , and often the world , by this gifted peasant , a copy-book proletarian , a metal worker who did not read or write until he was in his twenties and who summed up in his character so many of the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist system . |
| 5 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 6 | Many of the children probably could not read or write . |
| 7 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 8 | He could not read or write independently . |
| 9 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , more than a hundred million can not read or write . |
| 11 | She can not read or write . |
| 12 | First , which of these daily newspapers do you ever read or look at ? book there they are . |
| 13 | If he can nae read or write by this time , what 's the point ? ’ |
| 14 | SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’ |
| 15 | If I ca n't read or understand something in the paper he discusses it with me — about what is happening in the country or the community or about what politics can mean . |
| 16 | He could n't read or write . |
| 17 | Axl ca n't read or write . |
| 18 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 19 | ‘ He says I must n't read or write , and I must wear glasses . |
| 20 | I could n't read or write because I could n't see . |
| 21 | I ca n't read or write so I do n't know if there were posters or books about it . |
| 22 | Welcome back : Five hundred years ago when most people could n't read or write , education came from the church through sermons and images depicted in stained glass windows . |
| 23 | An avid reader of classical literature and a disciple of Tolstoy and Zola , she was a shining-star amongst the thousands of immigrant women in the city of Glasgow , many of whom could neither read or write . |