Name: British National Corpus
Short name: BNC
Language: British English
Date:1994 (some of the written sources date back to 1970s)
Mode: written (90%) and spoken (10%)
Text types: informal speech, formal speech, newspapers, fiction and verse, academic writing, unpublished writing, other published writing
Compilers: BNC Consortium
Contact:ota@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Citation: The British National Corpus, version 3 (BNC XML Edition) (2007). Distributed by Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, on behalf of the BNC Consortium. URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/.
External link: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/