Example sentences of "[verb] or write " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He could n't read or write . |
| 34 | Axl ca n't read or write . |
| 35 | He could not read or write independently . |
| 36 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 37 | Even in areas outside this great span — in Australia for example , the South Pacific or Amerindia — the main detailed knowledge that we have of these cultures is — almost by definition — in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write . |
| 38 | Should read or write errors occur , this database can be rebuilt from the image copy in conjunction with one of the log files . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Ever since men , whether they could read or write , have entertained values they have sought to express these in symbols . |
| 41 | ‘ He says I must n't read or write , and I must wear glasses . |
| 42 | I could n't read or write because I could n't see . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | If he can nae read or write by this time , what 's the point ? ’ |
| 45 | Not surprisingly , more than a hundred million can not read or write . |
| 46 | I ca n't read or write so I do n't know if there were posters or books about it . |
| 47 | She can not read or write . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Tell your employees to phone or write if they 're sick . |
| 50 | Sort out any matters that are bothering you , or make a list of people to phone or write to , shopping to be done , etc. next day . |
| 51 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 52 | BBC 2 broadcast the cases of 10 prisoners of conscience between 25 November and 8 December 1991 , and asked viewers to phone or write in for details of how to help them . |
| 53 | I wish he would just phone or write a letter to say he was all right . |
| 54 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 55 | On a two-day visit to the United Kingdom on Feb. 13-14 , President Frederick Chiluba sought UK backing for his government 's appeal to creditors to reschedule or write off its US$8,000 million external debt . |
| 56 | So whether you are a club , university , college , school or business please do not hesitate to ring or write describing your needs for pricelists , a quote or samples . |
| 57 | They do not strike or write to the papers , and they have no votes . ’ |
| 58 | Use of technical terms is one aspect , for example , of how cogently pupils can talk or write about a topic , how explicitly they can express themselves , and how well they can suit their language to their audience and purpose . |
| 59 | Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied , and not surprisingly , for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums . |
| 60 | In this case , speakers or writers start out with a semantic representation of what they want to say or write , and search for the corresponding phonological information ( enabling one to say a word ) or orthographical information ( enabling one to write a word . |