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


Found 1510 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 457.58

No : Line : Concordance 1: 12: that have been given to us, we can always afford a little flight from the grim r 2: 26: . Money talks, so the well-off can afford studies. Consequently, those who are b 3: 68: lists are built so that people can ride a bicycle instead of going by car./^t/As 4: 74: in which both glass and paper can be gathered. Unfortunately, many people are i 5: 98: han theirs. The discrimination can take place in neighborhoods, schools or place 6: 102: the most powerful factor which can overcome race and sex differences. Let alone 7: 104: and race are concerned: people can learn to tolerate and respect one another. Th 8: 114: d means of achieving peace and can succeed where other means are bound to fail./ 9: 138: ds which marks their value and can be exchanged for them'. Its origins, dating a 10: 142: ld. As far as historic sources can tell us, there has always been a certain regu 11: 144: it is this disproportion which can be accounted for the evil in the world, not m 12: 144: parts have a market value and can be sold. In fact, everything has its certain 13: 150: paper or a piece of metal. How can it be, than, so powerful that, on the one han 14: 177: es, apart from paintings, that can prompt our dreaming and imagination are theat 15: 178: t consist of hard facts, which can be taken in hands, but of the mass of feeling 16: 190: ple are equal a hypocrisy. How can we claim that everybody has equal chance in l 17: 190: lves and their families. As we can see, money divides the world into two parts: 18: 196: e, as a matter of fact, no law can abolish our deeply rooted racial prejudice, n 19: 196: our attitude to women, no law can ever provide all people with equal amount of 20: 222: apparently no way in which we can stop the development of science and industria 21: 238: pect from the males' side. One can risk to say that women declared themselves ag 22: 246: ht 'have it all ', a woman who can combine easily the role of wife and mother wi 23: 252: she is already employed, there can be some problems with getting maternity leave 24: 264: ruggle with life problems, one can say that in fact it is the only beneficent fo 25: 272: security. With imagination we can alleviate excruciating pain of humdrum life a 26: 7927: tle". Nowhere in the world you can feel so safe as in your own house. I would ne 27: 7941: nts, which means that marriage can be disunited only by the death of one of the 28: 7941: ychic is in danger, because it can be distorted in future life. Children are afr 29: 8194: this shocking interruptions we can watch better films, more interesting programm 30: 8332: are not gullible puppets which can be manipulated day in day out. Moreover, peop 31: 8363: eets of our towns. Nowadays we can hardly imagine the world without their presen 32: 8439: them. Unfortunately, what they can see does not resemble Polish reality at all. 33: 8439: n average Polish audience. One can feel brainwashed leaving a movie theatre. For 34: 8443: g to the movies.Movie industry can be very profitable. It does not, however, mak 35: 8443: his "Schindler's list". Poles can be proud of it, but at the same time it means 36: 8468: d what this symbol stands for, can be best illustrated by the dolphins' use of s 37: 8472: . But actually this phenomenon can be observed in the animal world too. Animals 38: 8500: m that such sex uniformisation can lead to many traumas and deviations among men 39: 8516: e other person./^t/Human being can also realize himself by the means of his own 40: 8524: nd of the twentieth century we can observe a departure from traditional values, 41: 8552: e awareness of posessing a gun can bring on its owner a lot of danger. It comes 42: 8552: e aware they carry a gun which can be used in a situation of life-threat as a ki 43: 8554: /^t/Second, the usage of a gun can cause more danger than create protection for 44: 8556: ly guarded and properly stored can get into the reach of children which leads to 45: 8556: ow perilous playing with a gun can be, the gun naturally becomes an object of th 46: 8556: he ammunission they have found can be put inside of it, etc. A real gun makes th 47: 8556: more realistic because a child can point at another and pull the trigger. In ord 48: 8558: or its owner; what is more, it can bring more peril than a gun-owner can think o 49: 8558: ng more peril than a gun-owner can think of. In order to avoid the unnecessaey d 50: 8568: and the influence of the moon can not be denied./^t/In most ancient cultures th

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 457.58

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