[Corpora-List] Searching BNC for adverbs followed by verb

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Gloria,

The Sketch Engine is a new piece of software which does this.

Go to http://www.sketchengine.co.uk  and self-register.  Then you can
call up a word sketch for any word.  The word sketch for a verb includes
a listing of the adverbs that repeatedly and significantly modify it.

Adam Kilgarriff
adam at lexmasterclass.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of Gloria
Sent: 31 August 2004 17:05
To: CORPORA at UIB.NO
Subject: [Corpora-List] Searching BNC for adverbs followed by verb

Dear collegues,

I would like to know if it is possible to search the BNC in order to
find out which adverbs precede a particular verb.

It doesn't seem to be possible, or at least I haven't figured out the
way to query the database in order to retrieve this sort of information.


Thank you in advance for your help,
Gloria