Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] write " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for his suggestion that I should comment or write on the series , I did not follow this up . |
| 2 | ‘ If you want to paint or write poetry or play football then it 's up to you . |
| 3 | If you wish you can 'phone or write for details of NHS or fee-paying clinics to the Family Planning Information Service . |
| 4 | If you wish you can 'phone or write for details of NHS or fee-paying clinics to the Family Planning Information Service . |
| 5 | I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | Congressmen were persuaded to meet and write to William von Raab , then Commissioner of Customs , supporting their case . |
| 7 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 8 | Before the Russian revolution of October ( November ) 1917 , very few Marxists were prepared to talk or write , in any other than the most general terms , on what the outline of a future socialist society would be like , or discuss the nature of the transition period to such a society . |
| 9 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 10 | In return for the group 's agreement to purchase and write off $4 million worth of Mexican debt from foreign creditors , the government has undertaken to carry out a $2.6 million programme of support for forest conservation efforts , with a particular focus on the Selva Lacandona , which is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North America . |
| 11 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 12 | When grammar teaching fell into decline much of value was lost : a certain analytic competence , and with it the valuable ability to talk and write explicitly about linguistic patterns , relations and organisation . |
| 13 | In the writing profile component , the statements of attainment relate to children 's growing ability to talk and write explicitly about : |
| 14 | Accordingly in the reading profile component , the statements of attainment relate to pupils ' growing ability to talk and write explicitly about : |
| 15 | ‘ He makes me feel as though I ought to go and write ‘ I must always measure my ingredients ’ five hundred times . ’ |
| 16 | He continued to paint and write poetry from time to time but he was now a professional and energetic film director , turning out twenty documentaries during the next eleven years . |
| 17 | Kings sometimes instructed or allowed churchmen to draft and write these documents , and Cnut apparently often did so . |
| 18 | We shall have men arise and write epics on it , when they |
| 19 | I wanted to draw , paint and write . |
| 20 | To imagine or write otherwise , to situate black people throughout the pages and scenes of a book like some government quota , would be ludicrous and dishonest . |
| 21 | It is easiest to discuss these in terms of the human requirements upon notation ; indeed , even with computer-based catalogues and indexes , people will be required to use and write or remember notation ( at least until the day when document arrangement is no longer relevant , or when machines are widely available to re-file information , regardless of size or form ) . |
| 22 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 23 | We will press the EC to coordinate international action to resolve the debt crisis , including reducing government-to-government debt , introducing regulatory and tax regimes to encourage commercial banks to reduce or write off debt , extending eligibility to IMF and World Bank loans , and encouraging , where appropriate , debt for development and debt for environment swaps . |
| 24 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 25 | It had produced a massive oxygen lack in the left side of the brain , leaving Stanley with a right-sided hemiplegia , complete loss of speech and understanding of other people 's words , and a total inability to read or write . |
| 26 | She may not be able to read or write but she can convert dollars , francs , rand , etc into escudos ! |
| 27 | He soon came to appreciate their special character , their solidarity and mutual trust , their innate hatred for anyone who was domineering , their intelligence and quickness in spite of being unable to read or write . |
| 28 | Sir Claus pointed out that one in seven children still left school without being able to read or write properly . |
| 29 | It is a category , as we have seen , which encompasses a range of disabilities from Down 's syndrome ( whose victims may even learn to read or write ) to microcephaly ( where the manifestations of life are no more than those of a vegetable ) and these differences are usually of account . |
| 30 | Large numbers leave school without being able to read or write properly , as many employers will testify , and as I am regularly reminded when younger people come to my constituency surgery and are unable to write out their names and addresses . |