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


Found 99 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 30.00

No : Line : Concordance 1: 68: that a driver has to pay fine before taking his/her car back. This regulation w 2: 292: relevant to the outside world. Before passing entrance exams most students had h 3: 390: d be made explicit to children before they are in trouble. In this way they coul 4: 572: gainst society or its members. Before it is done however, people should learn ab 5: 586: althy again. Some of them pray before an operation, like the neuro-surgeon who c 6: 745: y kind of sport - even boxing. Before the war boxing was neither so brutal nor v 7: 875: new country offers./^t/Indeed, before the travellers leave home, they form ideas 8: 919: isorders that can be corrected before birth with fetal tissue younger than sixte 9: 977: to be checked for side-effects before they can appear on the market. However, pr 10: 1007: hem becomes deeper and deeper. Before the new system was introduced the very fra 11: 1011: nd making money than they were before 1989. Another distinctive feature of the P 12: 1067: our country about thirty years before the communism./^t/A very similar attempt t 13: 1077: nd the process will take years before it is finished. Therefore, even if the adv 14: 1212: tage of adjustment takes place before people start to travel. They imagine thems 15: 1530: should have done some thinking before setting up this wild system - wild because 16: 1544: y do not want) to learn. Taken before an exam, amphetamine allows the user to le 17: 1642: t pass a short test very often before the final battle. It is an oral or written 18: 1644: verused at studies, especially before exams. You are given a test and you hear t 19: 1733: remember about folding litters before throwing them away to make them take less 20: 1762: s, in fact, for some 800 years before its last king was forced to abdicate. In v 21: 1826: themselves good enough to vow before God or the state to stay together for thei 22: 1826: Marital union merges the two, before separate, words - 'you' and 'me' - into on 23: 1830: r parents, who can easily part before it comes to that. Nevertheless, only marri 24: 1884: one's fulfilment./^t/However, before a child, being actually an adult, goes to 25: 1980: was asked how they spent time before the arcade was opened, they admitted they 26: 2228: gain it. They do not hesitate before destroying political adversaries. Politica 27: 2305: ages./^t/As has been mentioned before one of the causes of the proliferation of 28: 2513: o state that lying is immoral. Before condemning a person who lies, one has to f 29: 2998: o have sex with children. 'Sex before eight otherwise may be too late' they shou 30: 3061: trongly emphasized that Poland before 1989 was by no means free from violence. V 31: 3181: rning./^t/No one can deny that before television and computers there was a stron 32: 3223: them from other human beings. Before television and computers, people had a str 33: 3497: e adjustment cycle takes place before we even leave our own country. The moment 34: 3551: vow which he made to Eleonora before her death. He said that he would never bin 35: 3609: ng alcohol than these few days before New Year's Eve. Even those who do not drin 36: 3663: h are involved in creating it. Before going to the cinema we make specific arran 37: 3679: ompletely different light than before joining the sect. Furthermore, he/she is f 38: 3777: she had eaten a well-done meal before falling asleep. Additionally, judging from 39: 4091: ation, propaganda, widely used before any elections, a victim of stupid advertis 40: 4656: or not. One thing is certain, before we admitted mass media into our homes we u 41: 5040: niewski presented on Polish TV before the last presidential election has proven 42: 5429: blems which have not been seen before and which could have been a hindrance to m 43: 5439: ulary, phonology, and grammar. Before one start to analyze a language he or she 44: 5560: says: "Everything is difficult before it is easy". We must remember that nobody 45: 5670: d. It is better to think twice before saying 'yes'. 46: 5736: l division of their belongings before or after the marriage. Homosexuals however 47: 5910: and show a particular product before and after using it, pointing out its marve 48: 5955: to be done by the person asked before giving any answer. When one has already fi 49: 6305: , knowledge and entertainment. Before television was invented people used to rea 50: 8097: ces than soothe tired children before going to bed. Shooting robots on the earth

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 30.00

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