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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: 8538: thdrawal (abstinence) syndrom. The second ones comprise situations when the user 27: 8544: ion to stimulas is dependence, the compulsion to use the drug despite the deteri 28: 8564: sun-oriented. We all know that the sun makes life on earth possible. It emits li 29: 8564: s need the light to grow, too. The sun brings us warmth, as well. Without it the 30: 8564: the sun again, as it reflects the sun's light. It seems that its only contribut 31: 8566: itted during the full-moon. On the other hand, we are said to have more chances 32: 8568: lists or sleep-walkers. During the full-moon sleep-walkers get up and walk. They 33: 8568: ally lasts several minutes. In the morning they do not remember anything. Someti 34: 8568: the connection between it and the influence of the moon can not be denied./^t/I 35: 8568: etween it and the influence of the moon can not be denied./^t/In most ancient cu 36: 8570: t ancient cultures the sun was the most important deity, the moon being the seco 37: 8570: h life and good spirits; while the moon was asigned to evil spirits and demons. 38: 8570: ood in opposition representing the two extreme powers of light and darkness. The 39: 8570: ere equally appreciated. Today the impact of the moon seems less obvious than th 40: 8570: eems less obvious than that of the sun. Still, the above examples may make us re 41: 8576: ers heated discussions both in the United States and in Poland. This issue, howe 42: 8576: er, is differently broken into the American and Polish school systems. The most 43: 8576: can and Polish school systems. The most important discrepancy between the two sy 44: 8576: is no national curriculum for the course of sexual education./^t/In Roman Catho 45: 8578: e still unwilling to challenge the taboo on the topic, being even skittish about 46: 8578: eing even skittish about using the very word "sex". Consequently, Polish teenage 47: 8580: e to provide the students with the national curriculum for the course. In Poland 48: 8580: ng safe sex and contraception. The only book that the Polish Ministry of Educati 49: 8580: students' quench for exploring the subject of sex. In the United States every sc 50: 8582: ir efforts to properly educate the youngsters. If they don't come up with a reas

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