If you want to look for a particular word or phrase occurring in texts of a particular kind (for example from a certain domain or written by women), you can use the 'Query builder' tool. You can then easily add further restrictions, for example that the word you are looking for should be a modal verb.

1. Open the Query Builder - either from the File menu where you choose New and then Query Builder or by clicking on the Query Builder icon.
2. Click in the right hand, red box. Choose Edit and then SGML. A box marked SGML pops up.
3. From the list in the top left part of the SGML-box you choose catRef (if you cannot see catRef in the list, make sure the box Show header tags is ticked)
4. From the bottom left list you choose written_medium.
5. Click on Add
6. Select the appropriate value (here book) from the box that pops up (Attribute query) and click OK.
7. Back in the SGML box you click OK and are taken back to the Query Builder where some values have been added to the box to the right (you have now defined that you want to search in books only).
8. Click on the line pointing down from the catRef-filled box. A new red box appears.
9. Repeat 2-7 above but choose written_sex (point 4) and the attribute female (point 6) to define that you are looking for works written by female authors.
10. Back in the Query Builder window, click on the line between the first and second boxes on the right. From the list that appears you choose Link type and then Two-way (this defines that the order of these is irrelevant).
11. Click on the line pointing down from the second box. Another new red box appears.
12. Click in the new box and choose Edit and then POS. The POS Query window opens.
13. Type will in the small top box in the POS Query window and press the Tab key. A list of POS tags appears in the bottom box.
14. Click on VM0 and then click on OK. You are taken back to the Query Builder window where "will"=VM0" should appear in the previously red box.
15. In the Query Builder window you then click OK and the search is executed.

This may seem like a long and complicated way of searching. Once you have made one search, however, you can re-use that query/search string for consequent queries. One option is to choose Query and then Edit (from the navigation menu) and just click in the box you want to edit. Another option is to copy the query (Edit and then Copy) and paste it into the CQL query option. You can then edit the query as you like. Choose File New and then CQL and paste the query string.