Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	place_n	see_v	2,893	5	3.1798	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55541	The East-India-trade a most profitable trade to the kingdom and best secured and improved in a company and a joint-stock / represented in a letter written upon the occasion to two letters lately published insinuating the contrary.	Papillon, Thomas, 1623-1702.	1677 (1677)	Wing P305; ESTC R213729	22,116	32

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