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1- A poor semi-literate monk, named Peter Bartholomew, found it.

2- The strange rise of semi-literate England?

3- Both the breaker and his designer customers are quintessential members of the semi-literate tendency.

4- And also semi-literate at times … they never criticise in an intelligent way.

5- Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely.

6- Calogero Vizzini, however, was semi-literate and did not finish elementary school.

7- And none of them are anything other than the rantings of a semi-literate sociopath.

8- And the average factory or cooperative worker was not a modern proletarian but a semi-literate peasant.

9- Because the writing was atrocious and spoke to a level that appealed to children and semi-literate adults.

10- Whether Alec is equally keen on stigmatising the semi-literate by making them wear dunce caps is another matter .

11- Too subdued, don’t get into the emotional vowel pitching fervor which the semi-literate French have mastered.

12- At least you know that you have a kindred spirit with the dodgy , sleazy, semi-literate Driscoll.

13- To put it more brutally, there is no other sport in which the participants are so habitually semi-literate .

14- On 9 April 1875, Polly took Edgar to the semi-literate Freeman family and made arrangements to visit often.

15- I know the Nurse is a semi-literate babbling woman, but what on earth is going on about here?

16- A letter from 1782 is signed with “her mark”, indicating that she may have been only semi-literate .

17- I wonder how many under informed or misinformed or just plain semi-literate Americans actually know what a “trough” is.

18- During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England became a semi-literate society in which even some of the agricultural labourers could read.

19- Cartoons for semi-literate railwaymen studded the pages, and the back page was nearly full of capitalist-style advertisements of all kinds.

20- Many of the comments and letters stimulated by The Nation prize poem of 1925 asserted or implied that Siegel was a semi-literate .

21- Later, Gull forces the semi-literate Netley to write the infamous “From Hell” letter which lends the work its title.

22- On the whole the poorest communities have had most difficulties, where parents are illiterate or semi-literate and have little money or time to spare.

23- In 1980, the illiteracy rate was estimated to be 40 per cent of the population over the age of fifteen, with a further 15 per cent semi-literate .

24- The angry populist reaction drove the rail magnates underground–men such as the Erie railroad’s semi-literate Uncle Dan’l Drew; one-eyed James Jerome Hill, whose rail lines opened up the west; black-bearded, cold-blooded Jay Gould; and Jubilee Jim Fisk.

25- Adding to your wholly praiseworthy forensic dissection of this disgusting practice by eliciting this level of semi-literate unprofessional bullying only reinforces the point.

26- Many date Mrs Thatcher’s real loss of credibility with the public to her own appearance on Yes, Minister ; fanciful perhaps, but in a semi-literate age who can tell what apparently innocent excursion will not produce serious results?

27- In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback, positive or negative, from market researchers.

28- However, despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing, literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places, and nearly always from American rather than British programmes.

29- But there is a nagging doubt that the British Library itself will fall prey to the semi-literate tendency – it is after all located in Bloomsbury itself.

30- At times, as I have researched this book, it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists.

31- Besides the semi-literate glossies, and the best-selling ‘page-turners’ that have to be moved aside for the next over-hyped wave, books appear for sale that are of a quite different kind.

32- Though this kind of book is now looked down on, it does represent a significant strand in popular literary culture, and is a world away from the glossy semi-literate illustrated books that seem more attractive.

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