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


Found 182 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 55.15

No : Line : Concordance 1: 52: uldn't be punished, because he had been brought up by the people who regarded cr 2: 52: he was sorry, but he, in turn, had been brought up by the people who despised cr 3: 142: hose who actually already have had it and have been rich./^t/My view is that it 4: 178: s why, Kieslowski's films have had such a large audience. Many people hope that 5: 228: al work. If former suffragists had been able to see the future consequences of t 6: 250: free of the conventions which had dulled their mothers' lives. They needed econ 7: 292: g entrance exams most students had hoped that after three or five years of studi 8: 356: ey believed what their priests had told them in churches about the movie, and co 9: 460: ural environment to which they had to adapt. Communication is sharing informatio 10: 486: hange the situation. They once had the chance which they were not eager to take. 11: 578: ts who would have died if they had lived a few decades ago. Nowadays prematurely 12: 618: rly addicted to religion as it had unlimited control and exerted extreme influen 13: 667: e power of reason. But a price had to be paid for this .../^t/Now man has everyt 14: 685: othing, unless we say that she had to by a poison for it./^t/Doing evil things f 15: 859: nd views, have for a long time had nothing to do with sex, backed by clergymen, 16: 945: at for the last fifty years we had so-called 'democracy' and free education. For 17: 1007: ing after the communist regime had been abolished. In previous times the rich co 18: 1180: for example, the Soviet Union had to pay up to 10 billion pounds to clean up th 19: 1528: mality and the only token they had of this "normality" came from the West. We be 20: 1760: a joke. Monarchy, as such, has had a long and beautiful tradition in Poland, and 21: 1764: proudly thrown out. So, if we had decided to put the sparkling gold crown back 22: 1814: g in a constant fear, but they had one thing that modern society lacks: the sens 23: 1816: and breaking the harmony that had hitherto existed between God and man. If so, 24: 1854: /To most people who have never had a closer relation with so-called "mongolian" 25: 1868: t money. If these young people had decided to devote the time spent on playing v 26: 1900: was not an easy task and they had to rely only on themselves. They admitted tha 27: 1900: so by their other children who had never complained and they had dealt excellent 28: 1910: rents he and his wife have not had any major problems with him. Quite the opposi 29: 2381: even did not try because they had not been taugh how to do it. Instead they res 30: 2661: ows that all of his/her organs had been affected by the tumor, he/she may easily 31: 2692: a, one of them being Virginia, had perfect conditions for the cultivation of mar 32: 2762: and 60's drug-related culture had entered its Renaissance due to the populariza 33: 3941: rous for the society than they had been before./^t/To present my point of view e 34: 4079: ngerous or pleasant because he had an opportunity of checking everything on hims 35: 4293: wled from the wreckage in 1945 had seared into it the memory of a Europe that ha 36: 4552: that I've learned. I have also had some experience with learning other foreign l 37: 5064: and open our eyes on things we had no idea about. But the influence of mass medi 38: 5117: the facts and arguments I have had at my disposal I think I am not left alone wi 39: 5145: n very poor and plain if there had not been mass media. These are the TV and rad 40: 5676: -POL-UCS-0005.1>Before 1989 we had known only one kind of commerce: small shops 41: 6027: ts like physics or mathematics had to announce free admission in order to attrac 42: 6251: s lots of money for which s/he had to work very hard. How disappointed s/he is w 43: 7163: that their eleven-year-old son had been playing truant for three months. The tim 44: 7207: utstanding writer. All that he had done was the pursuit of love and beauty and i 45: 7221: those subcultures with which I had some contact through my friends, articles or 46: 7316: uestionably, that the wit they had to elaborate their position, is diabolic one. 47: 7704: al with. Maybe they would have had less time for religion but in spite of that t 48: 8144: thermore, some specific jargon had made a great use of such expressions as "auto 49: 8214: ime and effort. They must have had some bad experience with language learning, b 50: 8526: ed range of tints and hues. We had pictures made of colourful smears, we saw pai

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

Found 182 matches (50 printed) in all (sub)corpora searched.
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 55.15

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