British National Corpus

See the links among the diccionaries even though it is really a data base of over 100.000.000 words in text

The British National Corpus (BNC) was originally created by Oxford University press in the 1980s - early 1990s, and it contains 100 million words of text texts from a wide range of genres (e.g. spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic).

The BNC is related to many other corpora of English that we have created, which offer unparalleled insight into variation in English.

Click on any of the links in the search form to the left for context-sensitive help, and to see the range of queries that the corpus offers. You might pay special attention to the comparisons between genres and the (new) virtual corpora, which allow you to create personalized collections of texts related to a particular area of interest.

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