Collocation search tool

just the word
This website lets users enter a word or phrase and see hundrerds of collocations. Just the word refers to this as "combinations".

The 'combinations' are drawn from about 80,000,000 words in the British National Corpus (BNC).

Typing in the word business produces a huge number of collocations that are ranked by the words that combine with business. For example, the verb + object + business combination produces the following; acquire business, apply to business, attract business etc. There is probably too much information so it is best to use the tool very selectively. The key is to know what you are looking for before you start.  For example, f you want to focus on business and preposition combinations look to the right of the screen and click on the PREP "business" link.  This will auto-scroll you to the business and preposition combinations further down the page.

Just the word  is at - http://www.just-the-word.com/

Just the word is a service provided by Sharp laboratories.