Search the British National Corpus online

Various online services offer the possibility to search and explore the BNC via different interfaces. Some of the most notable are listed below:

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About the BNC

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English, both spoken and written, from the late twentieth century. [more]

Here are some of the most popular links to information about the BNC: