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• Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
• The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.   Winning the championship is an aim common to the two competitors.
• Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
• It is common to find sharks off this coast.
• Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
• Sharks are common in these waters.
• the honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life
• This fact was infamous / And ill beseeming any common man, / Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
• above the vulgar flight of common souls
• She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
• What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
• a dame who herself was common
• The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
• the weal o' the common
• Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.
• So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye [...].
• Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.
• town common, Boston Common
• property in common (sens idiomatique)
• common occurrence
• common saying
• common property