British National Corpus (original) (raw)

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:

• Audio BNC - access the digital audio files from the spoken corpus
• BNCWeb at Lancaster University (registration required - sign up here)
• English-corpora.org (previously BYU-BNC)
• Intellitext (University of Leeds)
• Phrases in English

Please note that we cannot answer queries about using any of these services, which are provided by other institutions. If you have a service for querying the BNC online, get in touch and we'll consider adding it to the list.

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:

• Download the full BNC (XML edition) from the Oxford Text Archive
• Download the BNC Baby (4m word sample) from the Oxford Text Archive
• Reference Guide for the BNC (XML edition)
• BNC User Licence
• Citation and references