Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	find_v	great_a	part_n	2,343	5	4.0454	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80088	To the Honourable the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled. A proposal for preventing the farther decay of our harbours: / humbly offer'd, by Robert Colepepyr, Gent.	Colepepyr, Robert.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1689 (1689)	Wing C5061; ESTC R224645	6,787	12

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