| Query | Artefact will retrieve documents containing: |
| террористический | Word террористический in any gender, number or case, beginning with an upper or lower case letter. |
| Clinton's | Word Clinton in any form, beginning with an upper case letter. |
| engin* | Any word beginning with engin: engine, engineer, engeneering, ... |
| repaire and computer | Words repaire and computer. |
| repaire computer | Words repaire and computer |
| pride or vanity | Word pride or word vanity, or both. |
| not alcohol | Any word, but not word alcohol. |
| president not Yeltsin | Word president, and not containing word "Yeltsin". |
| (repaire or sale) and (computer or video) | Word repaire or word sale, or both, and, in addition, contaning word computer or word video, or both. |
| political extremism /s | A sentence, contaning words political and extremism, in arbitrary order and not nesessarily juxtaposed. |
| political extremism /s3 | Word political and word extremism within three consecutive sentensies. |
| "Windows NT" | A sentence, in which word Windows is immediately followed by word NT. |
| Windows :0 NT | A sentence, in which word Windows is immediately followed by word NT (i.e. they are separated by 0 words). Hence, this query is completely equivalent to query "Windows NT". |
| ремонт :2 телевизоров | A sentence contaning word ремонт followed by word телевизор, separated by no more than 2 words. |
| ремонт : компьютеров | A sentence containing word ремонт followed by word компьютер, separated by zero, one or more words. |
| 1990!d | Dates, pertaining to year 1990. |
| 02.1994!d | Dates, pertaining to February 1994. |
| 13.03.1995!d | Dates, corresponding to March 13, 1995. |
| 22.06.1941-08.05.1945!d | Dates in the interval from June 22, 1941 to May 8, 1945. |
| 06.1941-08.05.1945!d | Dates in the interval from June 1, 1941 to May 8, 1945. |
| /IMP computer | Word computer, appearing in the document field IMP (on condition that the documents in the data base are divided into fields). |