Using web corpora for language queries

KWIC concordance: Key word in context MicroConcord search SW: couple 1 1 n, and we won't stand in her way." The couple are also adamant that 2 1 pounds 17,000) out of his account. The couple are both thought to have 3 1 hoddy treatment of its pensioners, the couple now live in Ireland, where 4 1 mbryos waiting frozen at a clinic, the couple become too old or too 5 1 t an illuminated sign business, so the couple go to Soho in That London 6 1 n this space is a mess." Naturally the couple rely heavily on storage. "We 7 1 and even putting on the chip pan. The couple say they can get only a few 8 1 her captivity", prosecutors said. The couple were buried beneath a 25cm 9 1 ted. It is wonderful, I suggest to the couple, who are sitting across the 10 1 hours a day, until the end of May. The couple writhe under the huge From: The Guardian/The Observer 2006

To learn more about what corpora are all about, go to Ylva Berglund’s home page: http://hem.passagen.se/ylvaberg/ITDAG.htm

For a good overview of available corpora, go to www.corpora4learning.net/resources/materials.html#1

Corpora 1. The British National Corpus: http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

2. Bank of English sampler: http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx

3. Complete lexical tutor: http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/

4. MICASE (The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English): http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm

5. BYU Corpus of American English: http://www.americancorpus.org

6. WEBCORP http://www.webcorp.org.uk/