... complexity of ordinary sentences in the corpus, and partly to create a databank of manually parsed samples of the LOB corpus, for the purposes of providing a first- approximation of the statistical ... PURPOSE OF THE LOB CORPUS. The LOB Corpus (Johansson, Leech and Goodluck, 1978), like its American ~/gl~sh counterpart, the Brown Corpus LKucera and Francis, 196a; Hauge and ;Iofland, 1978), is ... constituent analysis of each o£ the sentences in the corpus are set ~t in a Case-law Manual (Sampson, 198~) and a series of associated documents give the reasoning for the choice of rules and symbols...