Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] free [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The 32-year-old pay office clerk , of Griffiths Close , Yarm , who was pregnant , had to be cut free from the wreckage by fireman .
2 John Byrne , 64 , of Cleveland Avenue , Trimdon Village , had to be cut free from his car after the collision at 11.40 am yesterday .
3 The dead man , who has n't been named , had to be cut free from his car .
4 A NUDE model had to be cut free by firemen yesterday after she got plastered — literally .
5 The Israelite people had to be kept free of contamination from outside sources , especially the corrupting influence of Canaanite religion .
6 All viewers residing in areas which are cabled have a right to be connected free of charge to a service which provides them with a minimum of public channels , a local channel , an educational channel and a community channel with a studio which is available to citizens and associations .
7 Just as is the case for walking , the benefits of calming residential areas will not be realised unless provision is made for whole journeys from home to the shops , to work or to school , to be completed free from intimidation by motorised traffic .
8 The Financial Times of July 27 reported that the Israeli Defence Ministry had confirmed that plots of land in the occupied territories were to be given free of charge to Jewish people wishing to settle .
9 The danger of writing when you are abnormally tired — as well as bitterly cold — is that you can too easily lose control by digressing too far from the important things that need to be expressed free of any other clutter .
10 The collectivist emphases of the 1961 Programme — more and more services such as transport and housing to be provided free of charge , more public catering and shared upbringing of children — found no place in the new text , nor did the promise of a minimum one month paid holiday for all citizens .
11 A total of 2,680 houses have to be sold free of the tie by next November .
12 There will be provision for the shares to be sold free from adverse interests and with all future rights but , perhaps , with the right for the seller to receive a final pre-completion dividend .
13 Intelligence was to be scrubbed free of the impurities of independent action .
14 As far as the School was concerned , the Headmaster ( reappointed ) was requested to purchase books and stationery , to be sold to the pupils , and " pens , ink , inkpots , and indiarubber " which were to be supplied free of charge .
15 We have also taken the opportunity in the Bill to provide for water to be supplied free of charge for fire training purposes and for other emergency purposes as well as fire fighting .
16 AFTER an outstandingly successful year of fund raising in 1990 , totalling £13,000 , Broadstairs ladies ' guild were able to make use of an empty shop in Harbour Street which the owner allowed to be used free of charge .
17 Officers refused to confirm reports that he had to be wrestled free by police .
18 What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves .
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