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[Q]: I have lately been reading accounts of the exploration of the western and northwestern deserts of Australia in the 1870s and I have become very aware of the effect absent necessities might have on the frequency of particular items in discourse.
[A]: Lately I've been reading about exploration of Australia's western and northwestern deserts in the 1870s, and I've noticed how often absent necessities are noted in the accounts.

[Q]: The nation was bound together by historical experience and by its destiny, its "manifest destiny," in the phrase used to explain the push westward that occurred in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
[A]: The nation was bound together by its "manifest destiny, is used to explain the push westward that occurred in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

[Q]: Since this linguistic-statistical study of an obsession might well prove to be an important contribution to psycholinguistics, I decided to make a larger sample of watery words, choosing the straightforward journals of Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton, who led an expedition across the western interior of Australia in 1873 - 4. In a randomly chosen sequence of ten pages ( 151 - 60 of the published journal ) there were twenty-eight occurrences of the word water ( eight of them in compounds ), no page being without at least one example.
[A]:
Since this linguistic-statistical study of an obsession could be important to psycholinguistics, I have made a larger sample of watery words from the journals of Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton, who led a voyage across the western interior of Australia in 1873-4. In a random sequence of ten pages from the journal (151-60) there were 28 forms of the word water, and every page had at least one example.