Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	know_v	5,049	5	3.5427	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53041	Londons improvement and the builder's security asserted, by the apparent advantages that will attend their easie charge, in raising such a joint-stock, as may assure a re-building of those houses, which shall hereafter be destroyed by the casualties of fire as it was presented on New-Years-Day last, 1679, to the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Clayton, Kt., the present Lord-Mayor.	A. N.; Newbold, A.	1680 (1680)	Wing N846; ESTC R3601	5,238	9

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