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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: 7380: nd by visual presentation they can activate other perceptual areas of the brain. 27: 7686: od-hearted person with whom we can share our troubles and worries. Besides the s 28: 7941: re about religious vows, there can be other things which bother them. A couple's 29: 8003: much less crime. Besides, you can feel safe nowhere nowadays./^t/Taking everyth 30: 8081: n, in the afternoon hours, one can only watch serials, soap operas, quizes and o 31: 8314: is advertised. Grown-up people can be dissuaded from certain actions. Children a 32: 8363: 0024.5>They are everywhere. We can watch them on television, listen to them on t 33: 8439: them. Unfortunately, what they can see does not resemble Polish reality at all. 34: 8472: the lower \ abstract level we can observe the use of meaningless phonemes, wher 35: 8482: le who said sorry to us./^t/It can happen at any time that somebody hurts us, si 36: 8490: ody's apologies. However grief can leave its traces in our hearts, one thing is 37: 8504: been burned on the pyre. Now I can safely criticize what I want. I chose the chu 38: 8516: e other person./^t/Human being can also realize himself by the means of his own 39: 8516: , it is the utmost unknown. We can not possibly define happiness, we can only tr 40: 8524: nd of the twentieth century we can observe a departure from traditional values, 41: 8530: ed all over the world, a photo can be reproduced and published everywhere. It is 42: 8530: t is true that ordinary people can still visit famous art galleries and admire t 43: 8550: un, its use and storage, a gun can bring on its owner more harm than protection. 44: 8552: e aware they carry a gun which can be used in a situation of life-threat as a ki 45: 8556: ly guarded and properly stored can get into the reach of children which leads to 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: 8566: and scientifically proved. It can raise the sea level by 15 metres. We know tha

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 457.58

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