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


Found 7176 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 2174.55

No : Line : Concordance 1: 6: And this in itself constitutes a miraculous mental exercise. Ages of formal inst 2: 8: er that the person involved is a childless bachelor - the boss is so struck by t 3: 10: morning, our boss (depicted as a ruthless despot) always plays the role of the c 4: 10: th a shrewish wife or kind but a little bit dull husband also requires constant 5: 12: en to us, we can always afford a little flight from the grim reality - we can dr 6: 20: ompletely honest? Is there not a little hypocrisy? Do we really mean that all pe 7: 28: ess equal" than the society as a whole. The criteria for such discrimination may 8: 28: rdly a minority. They all form a kind of underclass which is deprived of certain 9: 30: ll's ridicule. We have to make a choice. 10: 40: petrated./^t/Being confined to a leper asylum never cured anyone of the disease. 11: 44: societies recognized crime as a kind of disease and treated criminals according 12: 50: wrong. The biggest crime that a society could commit to itself would be to forg 13: 52: lustrated by a popular case of a murderer accused in nineteenth century Germany 14: 54: hat some people say, does have a significant purpose to serve. Criminal lawyers, 15: 54: general public sees how severe a punishment the convict has received for what he 16: 54: on the other hand, is based on a naive presumption that those who are already ba 17: 56: ns is by no means outdated. As a matter of fact, it has never been as lenient as 18: 56: families outside a prison for a few days. What more should they need? A swimmin 19: 56: hey need? A swimming pool with a swim-up bar and sunglasses? After all, the idea 20: 58: be simply wonderful to live in a society without prisons and without criminals, 21: 64: n of nature than people living a hundred years ago. Therefore the Victor Hugo's 22: 68: ithout such a ticket placed on a windshield is towed away or immobilized so that 23: 68: requires every new car to have a catalyzer installed. Such an equipped car uses 24: 68: he ultimate goal is to install a catalyzer to every car to reduce the emission o 25: 70: concerned, every big city has a purification plant clearing the contaminated wa 26: 8402: much more motivation to learn a subject. The group exerts pressure on its membe 27: 8466: eous language usage, and using a dialog; (3)- structural dualism, speech autonom 28: 8470: when a creature is able to use a language because it wants to, irrespective of t 29: 8510: er child will grow up happily. A lover believes in his making love. A gardener b 30: 8516: aterialistic, tangible wealth, a growing career or a good family, again depends 31: 8518: eural elements. Human being is a spiritual being who consciously manifests his o 32: 8540: ke is decreased or stopped and a voluntary illness called the abstinence syndrom 33: 8544: work, or social activities. As a result, people stop to realise that they become 34: 8550: which would provide them with a feeling of security while walking down the stre 35: 8552: a situation of life-threat as a kind of protection, their feeling of security i 36: 8554: meone./^t/Second, the usage of a gun can cause more danger than create protectio 37: 8554: e person attacted. This is why a gun should be used only in a life-threat, rape- 38: 8554: y a gun should be used only in a life-threat, rape-threat situation or when a vi 39: 8554: rape-threat situation or when a victim is terrorized by an aggressor with a gun 40: 8554: errorized by an aggressor with a gun. In such situations a person should act qui 41: 8554: ithout hesitations; otherwise, a gun is not helpful at all but quite contrary./^ 42: 8556: but quite contrary./^t/Third, a gun which is not carefully guarded and properly 43: 8556: tions, a gun should be kept in a special casket built in a wall and locked. More 44: 8556: t in a special casket built in a wall and locked. Moreover, the gun and ammuniss 45: 8558: , it can bring more peril than a gun-owner can think of. In order to avoid the u 46: 8558: avoid the unnecessaey danger, a possessor of a gun should act as carefully as w 47: 8558: cessaey danger, a possessor of a gun should act as carefully as without a gun. S 48: 8558: ld act as carefully as without a gun. S/he should use it only when needed, that 49: 8578: to be extremely beneficial. As a result, an increasing number of American teenag 50: 8582: rs. If they don't come up with a reasonable solution to the problem of sexual ed

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 2174.55

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