Example sentences of "[be] to [be] free " in BNC.
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1 | Yet all couples have to make the break from home , emotionally if not physically , if they are to be free to make a marriage work . |
2 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
3 | Local schools were to be free to buy in the services of private organisations to inspect their standards . |
4 | Sustainable development — action that alters the environment so that it caters more effectively for human needs , without depleting renewable resources — is essential if the world is to be free from poverty and squalor … |
5 | This is essential if the head is to be free in relation to the rest of the body , so that the Primary Control can perform its natural function . |
6 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
7 | The church is to be free of prejudices ; everyone is accepted as they are , as individuals who are following Jesus as their Lord . |
8 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
9 | These were the golden years of the secondary modern school — a school which was to be free , so it was thought , from the cramping effects of competitive examination . |
10 | Admission was to be free but tickets were required for each day and demand was enormous from all over Britain and Ireland , from other European countries , and even from North America . |
11 | On July 1st he was writing to say that he was back at the studio , and how delightful it was to be free of catheters , bougies , and syringes . |
12 | Diplomatic representatives were to reside in Edo , and trade was to be free of official intervention , with more ports due to be opened in future years . |
13 | All he wanted was to be free . |
14 | How marvellous it was to be free ; how appalling it would have been to have had to wash some man 's socks and cope with his whingeing children . |
15 | My new creation was to be free of all that . |