Example sentences of "[verb] or 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 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She may not be able to read or write but she can convert dollars , francs , rand , etc into escudos ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sir Claus pointed out that one in seven children still left school without being able to read or write properly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 18 | He was unable to read or write and books in Serbian were almost unknown . |
| 19 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 20 | Thousands of people suffer the handicap of not being able to read or write properly , but that handicap could be eradicated if we put our minds to it in the coming years . |
| 21 | Sunil has shown me places in the club where the members rarely go and where , therefore , it 's safe to read or write or sleep as long as you wear your uniform and can pretend to be doing something vaguely official if someone comes in . |
| 22 | In a random file ( see the section on BBCBASIC(Z80) Files ) you can use PTR# to select the record you wish to read or write . |
| 23 | If you can not get the leaflet you want you should call or write to : |
| 24 | If you can not get the leaflet you want you should call or write to : Age Concern England , Bernard Sunley House , 60 Pitcairn Road , Mitcham , Surrey CR4 3LL . |
| 25 | At the back is a list of names and addresses of conservation organisations you can either join or write to for more information . |
| 26 | He had told a friend not long before , ‘ If you walked from Humber to Severn and dodged Derby , you would not find a bishop who can read or write ’ . |
| 27 | Well , since barely half the population can read or write , many people still rely entirely on that notoriously unreliable medium , word of mouth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 30 | Many of the children probably could not read or write . |