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


Found 16850 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 5106.06

No : Line : Concordance 1: 4: t voice their complaints about the deteriorating condition of human creativity w 2: 6: area in which we urgently need the help of our imagination is school. Every youn 3: 6: of youth. So rather than face the boredom of educational grind, we manufacture 4: 6: ts have to remain vigorous all the time, since any excuse used twice becomes ine 5: 8: e different direction in which the development of our mental powers goes. We are 6: 8: was impossible for me to meet the deadline". And it really does not matter that 7: 8: lved is a childless bachelor - the boss is so struck by the employee's tragedy t 8: 8: has to be remembered, however, the samples mentioned above are just the most bas 9: 10: e our inefficiency at work and the other way round. Whenever we come back home a 10: 10: ruthless despot) always plays the role of the culprit. Yes, that is true - copi 11: 10: And here, our task is probably the hardest since no matter how vehemently we try 12: 10: st. No wife would believe that the office computer exudes the suffocating Opium- 13: 10: ance, just as no husband (even the most loving one) would be willing to accept s 14: 12: too little time to truly enjoy the few pleasures that have been given to us, we 15: 12: unheard-of intensity to invent the tortures that would suit those monsters best. 16: 14: ustrialization wreaks havoc on the formidable might the human mind is naturally 17: 14: th. As long as humans interact the scope for their creativity will remain virtua 18: 20: 02.1>/^t/We live at the end of the twentieth century. We witness extraordinary p 19: 20: e French Revolution brought to the world. Equality, freedom, and brotherhood are 20: 22: etically everyone should enjoy the same rights and have equal duties. Yet, the o 21: 22: duties. Yet, the other side of the coin is that there are people who are privile 22: 22: hat of the rest. It seems that the word "equal", ironically, came to mean "havin 23: 24: statement by Orwell refers to the situation described in his novel and does not 24: 24: eflect the state of affairs in the modern real-life world. It is not difficult, 25: 24: this statement. Let us look at the first part of it. Are all people equal? Well, 26: 8512: an being will never relinquish the quest for the truth./^t/I cherish the thought 27: 8526: actically everything to paint. The pieces of art found in the caves of Lascaux w 28: 8544: nces of reducing the number of the addicted. 29: 8554: er/himself from the attack. If the aggressor is armed too, his immediate reactio 30: 8556: n a wall and locked. Moreover, the gun and ammunission should be stored separate 31: 8564: rcle of life goes on thanks to the light which enables plants' developement and 32: 8564: s need the light to grow, too. The sun brings us warmth, as well. Without it the 33: 8564: re of romance that it lends to the night. However, this apparent indifference of 34: 8566: he above facts may explain why the moon has been for centuries associated with b 35: 8568: s in their beds, but rather in the kitchen or out-doors. Scientists do not know 36: 8568: in one's sleep if somebody in the family had done it before. Scientists seek th 37: 8568: one it before. Scientists seek the cause of sleepwalking rather in the delayed d 38: 8570: t ancient cultures the sun was the most important deity, the moon being the seco 39: 8570: oon with female features. Yet, the influence of both the sun and the moon were e 40: 8570: s than that of the sun. Still, the above examples may make us realise how much w 41: 8576: er, is differently broken into the American and Polish school systems. The most 42: 8576: important discrepancy between the two systems is in the authorities' attitude t 43: 8576: attitude towards sex. While in the United States this subject is openly and free 44: 8578: e still unwilling to challenge the taboo on the topic, being even skittish about 45: 8580: e to provide the students with the national curriculum for the course. In Poland 46: 8580: ng safe sex and contraception. The only book that the Polish Ministry of Educati 47: 8580: every school district provides the students with an in-depth study of sexuality, 48: 8580: them have a firsthand look at the realities of sex./^t/The task of introducing 49: 8582: ir efforts to properly educate the youngsters. If they don't come up with a reas 50: 8582: ny teenagers will have to bear the dreadful consequences of their ignorance.

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 5106.06

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