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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: 10: with a group of special-slows before an upcoming exam./^t/When, regardless of a 2: 68: that a driver has to pay fine before taking his/her car back. This regulation w 3: 292: relevant to the outside world. Before passing entrance exams most students had h 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: 703: ns were rarely properly tested before implementation. This resulted in terrifyin 7: 745: y kind of sport - even boxing. Before the war boxing was neither so brutal nor v 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: 1077: nd the process will take years before it is finished. Therefore, even if the adv 13: 1212: tage of adjustment takes place before people start to travel. They imagine thems 14: 1372: the world was like without it. Before we admitted this "time-consuming monster" 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: 1644: verused at studies, especially before exams. You are given a test and you hear t 18: 1646: t even they change their minds before the exams. We look ahead in hope that the 19: 1733: remember about folding litters before throwing them away to make them take less 20: 1826: themselves good enough to vow before God or the state to stay together for thei 21: 1826: Marital union merges the two, before separate, words - 'you' and 'me' - into on 22: 1830: r parents, who can easily part before it comes to that. Nevertheless, only marri 23: 1980: was asked how they spent time before the arcade was opened, they admitted they 24: 2228: gain it. They do not hesitate before destroying political adversaries. Politica 25: 2238: 's hair needs being done again before going out or that our present mood is not 26: 2305: ages./^t/As has been mentioned before one of the causes of the proliferation of 27: 2513: o state that lying is immoral. Before condemning a person who lies, one has to f 28: 2998: o have sex with children. 'Sex before eight otherwise may be too late' they shou 29: 3061: trongly emphasized that Poland before 1989 was by no means free from violence. V 30: 3181: rning./^t/No one can deny that before television and computers there was a stron 31: 3211: uman-to-human contact because, before computers, people had a stronger sense of 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: 3775: ld be then to eat a light meal before going to bed, not forgetting, however, abo 36: 4656: or not. One thing is certain, before we admitted mass media into our homes we u 37: 4710: set of pictures, absorbs them before the proper "perusing" an article. The "bef 38: 4720: are broadcast more often just before important political events like elections 39: 4978: t that our efforts should come before detailed analysis of the current condition 40: 5429: blems which have not been seen before and which could have been a hindrance to m 41: 5439: l areas, it is good to analyze before one decides that a language is easy or dif 42: 5592: e have to think of the problem before the scientists eventually accomplish their 43: 5670: d. It is better to think twice before saying 'yes'. 44: 5813: its. It should be natural that before deciding on one of treatments suggested by 45: 5955: to be done by the person asked before giving any answer. When one has already fi 46: 6305: , knowledge and entertainment. Before television was invented people used to rea 47: 6351: in a peaceful small town. But before you decide which place is better for you, 48: 7247: will be repeated forever. So, before we start a family we should think what we 49: 8037: hen to present their knowledge before the teacher. The idea, unfortunately (?), 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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