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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Aye was a commoner and could not become pharaoh without marrying into the royal family.
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John, the son, became a fellow commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, and died unmarried.
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Muscovy's commoners, of course, were not an undifferentiated mass.
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The commoners, who had everything to lose from undertakings such as his, were firing an opening shot.
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The rights of registered commoners were to continue unchanged.
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Then in the eighteenth century there was conflict between Crown programmes of economic development and the interests of the commoners.
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This comprises a small number of true wasteland species, commoner there than in other habitats.