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	see_v	work_n	3,903	5	5.7692	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48077	A letter from Scotland with observations upon the Anti-Erastian, anti-prælatical and phanatical Presbyterian party there by way of dialogue between Anonymus and Antiprælatus.		1682 (1682)	Wing L1503; ESTC R36332	4,468	2

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