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


Found 72 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 21.82

No : Line : Concordance 1: 510: tender, hidden in the shell of lies and "faces", unable to cope with problems of 2: 1372: be broken. The reason for this lies in the simple fact: everyone nowadays seems 3: 1428: cating children. For education lies not only in accumulating facts and numbers. 4: 2113: ll as their disgusting, tricky lies ought to be condemned. Humans are expected n 5: 2152: profit than harm./^t/There are lies that are considered benign. These are the so 6: 2157: not be condemned./^t/Everyone lies sometimes - we are only human. The purpose b 7: 2157: behind lying are various. Many lies to entertain others, to be courteous or to g 8: 2177: eference for someone you know. Lies can be divided into those that harm others a 9: 2183: re concerned. People use white lies owning to the fact that they want to get som 10: 2183: e person who needs it. All the lies which are told at schools are also counted i 11: 2192: sume that stretching the truth lies may come handy are not always pernicious. Th 12: 2198: rselves./^t/Finally, there are lies that are considered not only moral but ever 13: 2238: spare moral dilemmas./^t/White lies are least likely to be condemned as most peo 14: 2244: a constant sense of distrust. Lies told by newspapers, producers, acquaintances 15: 2319: in all, no half-truth or sweet lies can ever be accepted. One may argue that the 16: 2323: ey believed in truth they used lies to protect what was precious and valuable./^ 17: 2333: rt to deception, claiming that lies can serve good purposes as well as bed. That 18: 2337: it is much easier and because lies 'sound better'. Those who are 'economical wi 19: 2337: produce barefaced and outright lies either for their personal advantage or for t 20: 2391: dren and grown-ups do not shun lies for different reasons. And since almost ever 21: 2393: ood. As children grow up their lies become more and more sophisticated. They man 22: 2393: e time preparing for the exam. Lies help youngsters to create a second image of 23: 2399: /Even psychologists admit that lies can be very helpful for people with inferior 24: 2401: nd useful we shouldn't condemn lies and consider them immoral. Since lying is an 25: 2515: o one can condemn a person who lies in order not to hurt other people's feelings 26: 2519: int about the types of excused lies that needs to be mentioned here. It is the p 27: 2519: . It is the problem of telling lies in situations when one wants to protect his 28: 2519: e notion of condemning telling lies is concerned. As an example of fully justifi 29: 2521: s to differentiate between the lies which can never be justified, and those whic 30: 2521: e excused. Those are the small lies told almost every day by most of the people, 31: 2521: day by most of the people, the lies told to avoid hurting someone else's feeling 32: 2648: se people's expense. When such lies become known on the spot a politician endeav 33: 2653: y still tell lies. On one hand lies may cause benefits, but on the other hand th 34: 2653: cate one's life. In some cases lies are an excellent solution if a person does n 35: 2653: ody. On the other hand however lies may do a lot of damage to one's reputation. 36: 2653: one's reputation. However good lies may be one should remember that man is a thi 37: 2653: ng lies. Even the best pack of lies may mean nothing in difficult circumstances. 38: 2659: pularity". To state if telling lies is moral or immoral, one has to differentiat 39: 2659: the other hand, there are also lies - resulting from men's innate pride, vanity 40: 2668: se any more./^t/There are also lies that serve the purpose of defense. Especiall 41: 2670: ering, there exists a class of lies that helps people to survive and to cherish 42: 2670: hope of better life. There are lies that can make dipressed people smile and the 43: 2678: ds and wives whose only chance lies in adoption. Would it be fair? Most of the s 44: 6649: y had no power. Their strength lies in numbers. There are many of them; a few ha 45: 7450: The reason of this phenomenon lies probably in symbolism and associations that 46: 7588: . The most striking difference lies in the fact that marijuana does not cause ph 47: 8288: it. Interestingly, the problem lies not in the difficulty of the test but in the 48: 8308: an artefact. At the core o fit lies the desire to make more money by taking adva 49: 8320: s achieve this effect by using lies or half-truths in their slogans. Then emotio 50: 8530: erhaps the most valid argument lies in the fact that the potential public for th

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