Suppose you want to find adjectives in L1 position before a word like ANALYSIS.

 

The search-word would be

 

<w AJ?>* analysis

 

(The tag for an adjective in the BNC World Edition is <w plus AJ0,AJC or AJ0, then we need the closing > and an asterisk to tell WordSmith that the search isn't necessarily bounded to the right by a space, then we specify the word analysis.)

 

If we hide the tags themselves and reduce colour to only the nouns and adjectives, it will look like this:

 

 

See also: concordancing on the tags alone

 

 

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