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


Found 248 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 75.15

No : Line : Concordance 1: 158: d not be generally accepted to say that some men are superior to others but the 2: 238: e males' side. One can risk to say that women declared themselves against their 3: 266: erhuman relationships, one can say that each "toy" of the electronic wonderland 4: 312: lm will be a very good one, to say the least. Nevertheless, when the reality has 5: 398: y and soul. What is more, they say that it is only health that is the most preci 6: 452: places./^t/You can of course, say that my claim is unreasonable, that I am in t 7: 532: ed age but it would be hard to say so hearing what the average man thinks of the 8: 602: en the same rights as men, and say that men and women are equal. But still women 9: 685: with money? Nothing, unless we say that she had to by a poison for it./^t/Doing 10: 775: that all the statistical data say something very important. Whether we like it 11: 853: to make a crucial decision to say "I shall abandon you." 12: 1043: nents of the scheme also often say that supplying young people with the knowledg 13: 1139: nant in their life./^t/One can say that parents should control what their childr 14: 1147: Their TV heroes or some would say "black characters"./^t/Many directors or scri 15: 1310: general rule should be able to say which sounds in English are aspirated and whi 16: 1514: n a paragraph for example they say never start a new idea with a conjunction. Th 17: 1721: eople belong to this group and say that priests are ordinary people and have the 18: 1780: es the right to adopt children say that such couples cannot bring up normal, hea 19: 1800: build her happiness. Feminists say that in the present-day world women are so in 20: 1812: concept of the Devil. When you say 'Satan made me do it' you are still guilty of 21: 1968: rder to achieve some aim. They say that these games improve their reflex, which 22: 2043: people are not equal. I would say something more: they are not equal because th 23: 2143: otherwise would not get. Let's say that a child is not hungry but just wants his 24: 2147: iness./^t/Of course, one could say it is not good to keep the person we are lyin 25: 2181: what they want to, they simply say they do not need this particular thing and tr 26: 2194: t case one may go as far as to say it's a necessity. Judging by the high standar 27: 2198: or girl any more" a parent can say "Mom and Dad decided to stay apart for some t 28: 3348: rom presented situation./^t/To say nothing more of an issue of the regular, subs 29: 5022: cters like Tom and Jerry. They say that children are most vonruable to images pr 30: 5104: om the world statistics, which say that around 400 million people all over the w 31: 5447: ration all these aspects I can say that English is an easy language, not only to 32: 5606: reaching a certain place If we say about the cities, it is necessary to mention 33: 5815: ively dubious. I would dare to say that the thing is likely to cause more harm a 34: 6197: n the other hand, sociologists say that the aim of shocking pictures is to make 35: 6451: the argument further, you may say that the major difference between school tuit 36: 6495: nobody who can authoritatively say why this particular washing powder is in any 37: 6574: e./^t/To sum up one can surely say that foreign language study is a worthwhile p 38: 6665: d learn their language. Others say we will never be able to speak a foreign lang 39: 6703: t in the best way. They do not say in vain that advertising is a lever for trade 40: 6703: that an advertisement does not say who has attested to its qualities. If we ask 41: 6944: ple are living longer. Reports say that a man's life expectancy is now seventy t 42: 7006: n. Nowadays, we would not dare say anything like that because every time when we 43: 7225: youth subcultures starts, lets say from the youth gangs in the XIXth century. Bu 44: 7484: live in a large modern city" - say those who advocate living in the country./^t/ 45: 7718: for fun./^t/Many young people say that taking drugs just for fun eases their ne 46: 7718: l tool for self-discovery they say that if you pay attention to the kind of drug 47: 7754: hysicists take marijuana. They say it helps them understand many difficult probl 48: 7933: ant./^t/In conclusion, I would say that as each "medal", living in a small town 49: 8294: xam on fourth attempt).One may say that this was because I could not drive then. 50: 8377: L-SUS-0025.5>/^t/It is hard to say at what age people start drinking alcoholic d

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 75.15

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