The corpus was restricted to just British English and was not extended to cover World Englishes, partly because a significant portion of the cost of the project was being funded by the British government which was logically interested in supporting documentation of its own linguistic variety.
The corpus was restricted to just British English. The corpus was not extended to cover World Englishes. A significant portion of the cost of the project was being funded by the British government. This British government was logically interested in supporting documentation of its own linguistic variety.