Step by step:
1. | Start Concord. |
2. | Choose Settings | Tags. Press the Load button to load up the BNC World.tag file or BNC_XML.tag included with your installation. |
The button says "(17) Clear" if you have loaded it, and you should also see this view of the details:
3. | In the Concord settings (Settings | Concord), ensure you're going to get plenty of text, because the tags take up some of the room. Perhaps 600 characters per line. |
4. | Close the Settings (pressing OK). |
5. | Back in Concord, choose File | New, and at the leftmost tab, make sure you choose some BNC text. I've chosen a whole folderful with 87 files in it. |
6. | Choose a search-word in the next tab (Search Word): |
7. | Let the concordance run. |
8. | Hide the mark-up if you want (View | Tag hiding | tag file tags) so that this |
reduces to this
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