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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)


Found 382 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 115.76

No : Line : Concordance 1: 40: t been made to educate them to become valuable citizens, they would reenter the 2: 90: Then a university degree will become the trump in one's hand and claiming that 3: 177: plays and films. A cinema has become one of the important elements of entertain 4: 218: ication development, as it has become so easy, there is less need to concentrate 5: 236: re lot of his wife who, having become independent and self-reliant, is able to e 6: 370: e respect deficient, will soon become obsessed with the idea of getting themselv 7: 388: eason why so many young people become parents is their sheer curiosity how it is 8: 416: unt of the general public have become more aware about the rights for living cre 9: 430: to the European market, would become possible, then. This step might turn to be 10: 484: ot react in time their kid can become an alcohol- or a drug-addict who additiona 11: 494: aceful development. As man has become more and more sophisticated, the structure 12: 500: and stressful humans, who have become more and more insecure, and less and less 13: 562: Polish Parliament has recently become interested in drugs. This is not because t 14: 586: s who were to die, survive and become healthy again. Some of them pray before an 15: 630: y are constantly too drowsy to become aware that they have deliberately become s 16: 701: but its application, that may become a menace./^t/The development of science ha 17: 879: hing worth seeing, their lives become as mundane and they used to be in their na 18: 903: s. In this light people should become more reluctant towards experimenting with 19: 917: uickly, divide rapidly and may become a kidney, a liver cell or anything else. T 20: 959: 'second Japan'. We will never become like Japan, though, unless we reform our e 21: 991: er form or means seems to have become a very lucrative business, there are more 22: 1011: ople in the Poznan region have become more indifferent towards each other since 23: 1105: psychology. Stewardesses soon become experts of human behaviors. Such an experi 24: 1149: ten cruel ideas. Violent films become training grounds for such people. Police r 25: 1220: . But, conversely, most people become more and more nationally conscious, aware 26: 4103: brains (or pull it out..?) and become credulous, passive, will-deprived objects 27: 4956: imally reduced. If Poland will become one of the E.C. members, our products will 28: 5329: isation (NATO) and has already become a member of the Organisation for Economic 29: 6124: cially nowadays, when life has become very nervous, noisy and dangerous many peo 30: 6179: rners choose English as it has become the international language of communicatio 31: 6555: communication among people has become a significant element of the present life 32: 7057: e of information has presently become an instrument to misguide and manipulate t 33: 7183: as e.g. 'Blood Runners' could become a part of our reality./^t/Cloning for rege 34: 7306: healthy lifestyle has not yet become popular. The Polish businessmen are usuall 35: 7470: n instructor are not enough to become a good driver and get used to driving./^t/ 36: 7553: be a day trip, such a trip may become one of the most interesting adventures of 37: 7574: hat embodies authority and may become an easy target for radical politicians. Th 38: 7673: only minority of city dwellers become involved in crime and violence./^t/Returni 39: 7676: ricts of the modern city, life become a curse. Therefore they will not benefit f 40: 7688: r identity and character. They become different people. They are accompanied by 41: 7720: st deceive themselves and they become lost in reality. They try to answer proble 42: 7772: in the theatre one can easily become someone else for a moment. If one would li 43: 8118: g, living in a modern city has become a matter of survival rather than of enjoym 44: 8144: ing aware of it. It has simply become habitual. Some expressions such as the inf 45: 8232: l gain the same life style and become as happy and beautiful as the models in th 46: 8232: principle is: BUY IT, YOU WILL BECOME IT. Thus modern advertising even affects a 47: 8306: re no really definable, people become consumers of the advertized goods. They ar 48: 8326: it to. No product will make us become a supermodel, a film star or a singer even 49: 8482: r and hate. All those feelings become a real poison, which, unfortunately, we de 50: 8544: ople stop to realise that they become someone different; they unconsciously lose

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 115.76

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