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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dalton seems to have been worried that the Party rank and file would be bewildered by the turn around.
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Indeed, most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file .
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Now I could almost resent the rank and file , up there hogging every scene.
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Social control of the rank and file , in its formal disciplinary guise, had a multitude of possibilities.
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The rank and file were drawn from forced levies laid upon the tax-paying population.
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The enemy succeeded in capturing myself and 2, 200 rank and file , many of them being wounded.
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The other three Hardin dismissed almost immediately; they were rank and file on the face of them.
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While I have no special bond with the rank and file , I do sometimes have one with the officers.