Example sentences of "[conj] write and " in BNC.
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| 1 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 2 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 3 | He was unable to read or write and books in Serbian were almost unknown . |
| 4 | As I 'm sure you know , the majority of girls seeking such posts can neither read nor write and are of such low intelligence that they have no control over the children ; in fact , the children soon take advantage of them . |
| 5 | Besides that she can hardly read and write and has a very dirty house and weird friends . |
| 6 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 7 | One manager , who remains nameless , replied to the psychologists ' request for information thus : ‘ Please feel free to send your questionnaires to me and I will distribute them to the two or three players who can read and write and have an attention span of longer than two minutes . ’ |
| 8 | From the time they could read and write and understand , Stepan Holovich and Ilya , who was to become his wife , had known of the battle . |
| 9 | When she was older , he had paid for her to go to school , proud of her ability to read and write and work out figures . |
| 10 | She says that in the future , in addition to her current activities , she wants to learn to read and write and to plant flowers in the garden . |
| 11 | And many of us do n't know how to read and write and every government document costs money . |
| 12 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |
| 13 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 14 | The smaller room was where taught the younger children to read and write and count . |
| 15 | I 'm not half-witted , you know ; I can read and write and work things out for myself ! ’ |