Hello,
My students are trying to look at constructions that occur at the end of a
sentence in BNC, however, we seem to have some problems in searching for
such contexts, using Mark Davies' http://view.byu.edu/ (it is free and
fast...).
This query
in [pu*]
does produce some results (with a space between the punctuation mark and the
preceding form).
This query
in[pu*]
does not produce anything.
The results of the former are (the first line):
IN . 9571
Unfortunately, clicking on the line produces just a response like that:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e31'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
/x3.asp, line 290
The simplest question: can't I just use the character itself. i.e. the full
stop?? (I cannot, because this returns no results).
Using the regular expression syntax, i.e. [.!?] is no good, either.
Can anyone help??
Thank you.
Best regards
Tadeusz Piotrowski
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