0 a formal statement that you make and officially say is true
This attestation could be provided in a brief statement referencing the pertinent regulations.
Then lists of matrix verbs are given, and authentic attestations of the construction are discussed in great detail.
Also, in the child language studies that we have examined we found no attestation of this construction.
This list is conservative, limited by many accidents of attestation.
Some empirical support for the difference in syllable composition, however, may come from 'first attestations'.
Unsurprisingly, there are corpus attestations that do not figure in any of the dictionaries compared.
Of interest to our topic are attestations of another reason conjunction based on seeing, namely seeing as.
After around 1700, textual attestations of these structures drop sharply and disappear rapidly.