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


Found 54542 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 16527.88

No : Line : Concordance 1: 4: tion of human creativity which is due to the overdevelopment of technology. What 2: 4: is due to the overdevelopment of technology. What a preposterous idea! Neither 3: 4: ede our capability of dreaming or using our imagination since human minds intrin 4: 4: st amounts of creative powers. We simple need these to overcome daily hazards an 5: 6: mendable behavior./^t/One area in which we urgently need the help of our imagina 6: 6: hich we urgently need the help of our imagination is school. Every young person 7: 6: realizes that this institution is not the most attractive place in which to spen 8: 6: most attractive place in which to spend those short and therefore precious hours 9: 6: efore precious hours of youth. So rather than face the boredom of educational gr 10: 6: boredom of educational grind, we manufacture scores of elaborate excuses in ord 11: 6: re scores of elaborate excuses in order to avoid responsibility for our misdemea 12: 6: for our misdemeanors. And this in itself constitutes a miraculous mental exercis 13: 6: qual the intellectual benefits we reap of those intense bouts of creativity when 14: 6: we reap of those intense bouts of creativity when we try to explain our absence, 15: 6: outs of creativity when we try to explain our absence, lateness or lack of homew 16: 6: our absence, lateness or lack of homework. And what is more important, our inve 17: 6: nt, our inventive efforts have to remain vigorous all the time, since any excuse 18: 8: rmines the different direction in which the development of our mental powers goe 19: 8: ent of our mental powers goes. We are now grown-up and sensible individuals and 20: 8: uately paramount significance. We will go to any lengths to be pardoned for our 21: 8: nce. We will go to any lengths to be pardoned for our sloth and continue to be c 22: 8: red full-fledged adults. Thus, we no longer say: "I have not done my homework be 23: 8: o longer say: "I have not done my homework because my dog chewed it up" but we a 24: 8: homework because my dog chewed it up" but we are more likely to come up with som 25: 8: it up" but we are more likely to come up with something like this: "My child is 26: 8552: ich can be used in a situation of life-threat as a kind of protection, their fee 27: 8564: only contribution to our life is the atmosphere of romance that it lends to the 28: 8564: phere of romance that it lends to the night. However, this apparent indifference 29: 8566: hed. The influence of the moon on the water on earth is clear and scientifically 30: 8566: love relationships in the time of full-moon. There are also said to be more chil 31: 8568: isibly and intensly influenced by the moon. They are called somnambulists or sle 32: 8568: he full-moon sleep-walkers get up and walk. They have their eyes open and behave 33: 8568: the walk and are surprised not to find themselves in their beds, but rather in t 34: 8568: eds, but rather in the kitchen or out-doors. Scientists do not know much about s 35: 8568: e and declines with age. There is also some evidence for genetic origin of it. I 36: 8568: e delayed development of brain or in stress and oversensitivity. Yet, the connec 37: 8570: n seems less obvious than that of the sun. Still, the above examples may make us 38: 8576: the United States this subject is openly and freely debated, Polish authorities 39: 8578: willing to challenge the taboo on the topic, being even skittish about using the 40: 8578: n their own and are very often in danger of suffering from their ignorance. Unli 41: 8578: ed to be extremely beneficial. As a result, an increasing number of American tee 42: 8580: nal curriculum for the course. In Poland, for example, there aren't even proper 43: 8580: book that the Polish Ministry of Education recommends for adolescents - namely 44: 8580: ore You Choose" - doesn't seem to satisfy students' quench for exploring the sub 45: 8580: ict provides the students with an in-depth study of sexuality, so that each one 46: 8580: of sexuality, so that each one of them have a firsthand look at the realities of 47: 8580: of them have a firsthand look at the realities of sex./^t/The task of introduci 48: 8580: irsthand look at the realities of sex./^t/The task of introducing sexual educati 49: 8582: to be carried out effectively, in order to raise teenagers' sexual awareness. As 50: 8582: bear the dreadful consequences of their ignorance.

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