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


Found 3316 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 1004.85

No : Line : Concordance 1: 26: nefit from it, even illegally. They are in position to break the law and to hush 2: 26: consist in vice. For example, they have better education opportunities. Money t 3: 28: , women are less paid, even if they are as well-qualified as men, and homosexual 4: 30: lites and its underclass, that they are nothing out of ordinary. Perhaps we shou 5: 36: rather than incarcerate them, they should rehabilitate them./^t/Many people are 6: 38: killing quest across America. They knew that what they were doing was evil and 7: 38: oing was evil and immoral, but they were not troubled by their conscience. The u 8: 38: for their shortcomings because they cannot control them. Thus, separating crimin 9: 40: make up for their wrong-doing, they leave predisposed and trained to become hard 10: 40: y had never been put to prison they wouldn't have absorbed the infectious microb 11: 42: ind the prison bars. Little do they realize that they do not really secure safet 12: 52: do not commit offenses because they are bad by nature, but rather it is because 13: 54: , people must be aware that if they willingly decide to go astray, they will wit 14: 56: r a few days. What more should they need? A swimming pool with a swim-up bar and 15: 56: n a dark and damp cell was all they could count for. Today, societies agree to p 16: 82: duated from a secondary school they decide to continue their education and the m 17: 98: is because of the climate zone they or they ancestors come from, is the least po 18: 98: themselves as superior because they were the ones who conquered less developed n 19: 100: se their own ways of life, and they do not have to follow the traditional patter 20: 114: . People think in stereotypes. They fear of other people who are e.g. visually d 21: 128: f breaking the law. Very often they themselves admit that they are not able to l 22: 128: like in case of Westley Dodd, they publicly plead to be executed for their crim 23: 174: have been argued about, and so they have made people more considerate in sensiti 24: 177: , and after leaving the cinema they forget what the film was about. The other gr 25: 178: l imagine that perhaps one day they will find the answers to these basic questio 26: 7965: pend money on space travels as they are the source of knowledge about the univer 27: 8158: , namely to boost their sales. They flood market with products, and draw people 28: 8230: . Looking for such role models they come across TV commercials with unbelievably 29: 8262: ndly. They are happier because they feel that they belong to a certain group, an 30: 8274: circles. An infertile couple. They really long for their own child. Several att 31: 8310: will feel really unhappy when they will not get all those toys and sweets. The 32: 8342: he basic symptoms of affection they look wistfully seeking in vain what should n 33: 8363: need them. Advertisements, as they are in question here, are useful in our ever 34: 8371: ber of possibilities of choice they have, they can admit that advertising is use 35: 8427: lar period of time. Afterwards they are removed and replaced by another exhibiti 36: 8439: America from only one angle - they can tell of the USA as of a rich country wit 37: 8439: stration among Polish society. They undervalue their country, thinking of it as 38: 8441: preferred all over the world. They are easy to watch, they do not require any e 39: 8512: umbed to their destiny because they believed that death is the only road to eter 40: 8530: aphy guarantee wide publicity. They are easily available. The same movie can be 41: 8544: they become someone different; they unconsciously lose their personality and sel 42: 8544: ality and self-esteem. Much as they are aware of their addiction, they are not a 43: 8544: are aware of their addiction, they are not able to foresee the consequences whi 44: 8552: act that when people are aware they carry a gun which can be used in a situation 45: 8552: r actions become less careful. They tend to take unnecessary risks because they 46: 8556: t is built, if the ammunission they have found can be put inside of it, etc. A r 47: 8568: tensly influenced by the moon. They are called somnambulists or sleep-walkers. D 48: 8568: sleep-walkers get up and walk. They have their eyes open and behave as if they w 49: 8570: powers of light and darkness. They also represented the two opposite sexes: the 50: 8582: rly educate the youngsters. If they don't come up with a reasonable solution to

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 1004.85

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