Example sentences of "[to-vb] or write " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you want to paint or write poetry or play football then it 's up to you . |
| 2 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She may not be able to read or write but she can convert dollars , francs , rand , etc into escudos ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sir Claus pointed out that one in seven children still left school without being able to read or write properly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was unable to read or write and books in Serbian were almost unknown . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Tell your employees to phone or write if they 're sick . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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. |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These include exam papers in Chinese for people who are unable to speak or write English . |
| 28 | My father was never to speak or write to me again , but after a while I began to hear from my mother . |