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


Found 248 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 75.15

No : Line : Concordance 1: 158: d not be generally accepted to say that some men are superior to others but the 2: 238: e males' side. One can risk to say that women declared themselves against their 3: 264: le with life problems, one can say that in fact it is the only beneficent force 4: 266: erhuman relationships, one can say that each "toy" of the electronic wonderland 5: 312: lm will be a very good one, to say the least. Nevertheless, when the reality has 6: 398: y and soul. What is more, they say that it is only health that is the most preci 7: 452: places./^t/You can of course, say that my claim is unreasonable, that I am in t 8: 452: onform to your habits. You can say that your decisions, as the majority decision 9: 532: ed age but it would be hard to say so hearing what the average man thinks of the 10: 602: en the same rights as men, and say that men and women are equal. But still women 11: 685: with money? Nothing, unless we say that she had to by a poison for it./^t/Doing 12: 775: that all the statistical data say something very important. Whether we like it 13: 853: to make a crucial decision to say "I shall abandon you." 14: 1043: nents of the scheme also often say that supplying young people with the knowledg 15: 1139: nant in their life./^t/One can say that parents should control what their childr 16: 1310: general rule should be able to say which sounds in English are aspirated and whi 17: 1514: n a paragraph for example they say never start a new idea with a conjunction. Th 18: 1721: eople belong to this group and say that priests are ordinary people and have the 19: 1780: es the right to adopt children say that such couples cannot bring up normal, hea 20: 1800: build her happiness. Feminists say that in the present-day world women are so in 21: 1812: concept of the Devil. When you say 'Satan made me do it' you are still guilty of 22: 1968: rder to achieve some aim. They say that these games improve their reflex, which 23: 2043: people are not equal. I would say something more: they are not equal because th 24: 2147: iness./^t/Of course, one could say it is not good to keep the person we are lyin 25: 2181: what they want to, they simply say they do not need this particular thing and tr 26: 2194: t case one may go as far as to say it's a necessity. Judging by the high standar 27: 2198: or girl any more" a parent can say "Mom and Dad decided to stay apart for some t 28: 4502: shing powders, food, etc. They say 'Ariel' is the best or 'Vizir' is perfect, so 29: 6071: ion and disappointment. We can say that small towns live their own lives full of 30: 6305: characters. I am not afraid to say that it is overwhelming with its presence./^t 31: 6495: nobody who can authoritatively say why this particular washing powder is in any 32: 6507: sions. It is very difficult to say if the quality of television programmes is as 33: 6539: at work. Finally they may even say if foreigners come to their country so that i 34: 6547: many exercise?. It is hard to say it depends on your future. Perhaps after some 35: 6574: e./^t/To sum up one can surely say that foreign language study is a worthwhile p 36: 7006: people think that we can never say for sure whether a given thing is the best or 37: 7006: n. Nowadays, we would not dare say anything like that because every time when we 38: 7225: youth subcultures starts, lets say from the youth gangs in the XIXth century. Bu 39: 7302: tyle of the houses, or shall I say castles, designed for the well off people is 40: 7326: . It would be inappropriate to say that where civilisation ends, barbarity begin 41: 7594: ll strongly oppose my idea and say that it is immoral to take advantage of drugs 42: 7718: eople's dreams come true. They say that there are some benefits to an occasional 43: 7718: l tool for self-discovery they say that if you pay attention to the kind of drug 44: 7718: you are emotionally. They even say that the drug you choose reflects the emotion 45: 7726: it is safe to take drugs. They say that drugs such as Ecstasy or Cannabis kill f 46: 7734: at a fascinating life! You may say that they could only see new lands and new wa 47: 7794: a true punishment!Some people say that death penalty is the only way to deter c 48: 8280: its (or maybe it is better to say 'his'/'her') copy. The whole order of moral v 49: 8294: xam on fourth attempt).One may say that this was because I could not drive then. 50: 8488: somebody has actually tried to say sorry but we were to blind with anger to noti

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

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 75.15

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