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


Found 10508 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 3184.24

No : Line : Concordance 1: 4: e powers. We simple need these to overcome daily hazards and excuse our uncommen 2: 6: of elaborate excuses in order to avoid responsibility for our misdemeanors. And 3: 6: nt, our inventive efforts have to remain vigorous all the time, since any excuse 4: 8: nce. We will go to any lengths to be pardoned for our sloth and continue to be c 5: 8: it up" but we are more likely to come up with something like this: "My child is 6: 8: nd so it was impossible for me to meet the deadline". And it really does not mat 7: 10: make use of domestic problems to excuse our inefficiency at work and the other 8: 10: t loving one) would be willing to accept some flimsy explanation about his wife 9: 12: ons we have used we are forced to shoulder the grievous burden of too many respo 10: 12: pleasures that have been given to us, we can always afford a little flight from 11: 12: ains with unheard-of intensity to invent the tortures that would suit those mons 12: 14: e is not a single sound reason to worry that the advancing industrialization wre 13: 20: ecture. We boast of being able to cooperate, to solve political problems peacefu 14: 20: the French Revolution brought to the world. Equality, freedom, and brotherhood 15: 22: attitude was what Orwell tried to ridicule./^t/Certainly, one could argue that t 16: 24: . It is not difficult, though, to verify the truthfulness of this statement. Let 17: 24: e the right to live, the right to work, the right to profess a religion, and the 18: 24: fess a religion, and the right to express opinions. The whole body of society is 19: 26: n money, even those who belong to mafias have better opportunities and very ofte 20: 26: llegally. They are in position to break the law and to hush it up. The rank and 21: 26: stice and very often they have to carry the burden of punishment while their bos 22: 26: opportunities. The affiliation to an elite proves to be very helpful in climbing 23: 28: e ignored by the law, who seem to be "less equal" than the society as a whole. T 24: 28: sapproval and are often forced to live beyond the pale. Problems with buying fit 25: 28: omfortable to use seem trivial to us; they are, however, reasons for complaints 26: 8421: de their collections available to the public. Hence, the churches, as now galler 27: 8496: The catholic church seems not to comply with new standards and ideas about the 28: 8510: moment we are born we struggle to believe. A baby believes in mother's feeding b 29: 8512: omplexity of our life, we have to rely on our faith. Whether it is the faith in 30: 8512: of their life. They succumbed to their destiny because they believed that death 31: 8514: h is love. Love is the gateway to self-fulfilment as well as the testimony of ou 32: 8516: as if happiness was a property to be possessed. We believe that one day we would 33: 8526: ent photography. When it comes to technical inventions, people have used practic 34: 8540: ost of them subject themselves to a long-lasting hospitalisation./^t/Psychologic 35: 8550: E-POL-POZ-0010.6>/^t/According to the statistics, nearly one thousand murders an 36: 8552: become less careful. They tend to take unnecessary risks because they think if t 37: 8552: they have a gun they are able to cope with any danger. Such people provoke the 38: 8554: a situation when a person has to face some danger, namely s/he pulls out her/hi 39: 8554: pulls out her/his gun in order to cause a threat to an aggressor and protect her 40: 8556: children find a gun belonging to their parents and use it for their games. As t 41: 8556: and pull the trigger. In order to prevent oneself from such situations, a gun sh 42: 8564: arent indifference of the moon to life is not that obvious, since the moon influ 43: 8568: the walk and are surprised not to find themselves in their beds, but rather in t 44: 8568: gest that sleepwalking happens to children and young people and declines with ag 45: 8570: ts; while the moon was asigned to evil spirits and demons. They always stood in 46: 8578: y, Polish teenagers are forced to act on their own and are very often in danger 47: 8578: ge along with immense exposure to sex-related topics in sexual education classes 48: 8582: f introducing sexual education to Polish and American schools needs to be carrie 49: 8582: ried out effectively, in order to raise teenagers' sexual awareness. As far as P 50: 8582: tion, many teenagers will have to bear the dreadful consequences of their ignora

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 3184.24

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