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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear Chris,</div>

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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">When the BNC was converted into XML, many pauses were lost, which means that the latest version of the BNC is less reliable than earlier versions.</div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">You can read about this in the following report compiled by Sebastian Hoffmann and Stefan Evert:</div>

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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/BNCweb/BNC-errors_and_inconsistencies.pdf">http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/BNCweb/BNC-errors_and_inconsistencies.pdf</a></div>

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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Best wishes,</font></font></div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Karin </font></font></div>

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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Karin Axelsson, Ph.D.</span></div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Senior Lecturer in English</span></div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">School of Humanities and Informatics</span></div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">University of Skövde</span></div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Sweden</span></div>

<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">karin.axelsson@his.se</span></div>

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