Example sentences of "be [verb] free " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 2 | Some would take this view , arguing along the lines of the story of Christ healing the lepers , that some of God 's gifts are given free to men who may then go and abuse them . |
| 3 | ‘ Set stocking ’ , in which animals are given free range over a relatively large area and not moved regularly , is the most labour-saving system of grazing . |
| 4 | The logical functions of language are given free rein . |
| 5 | Rafts of logs , waiting for shipment , had been ripped free of their bindings , smashing through concrete buildings as if they were built of playing cards . |
| 6 | There is only one proviso ; the programs have been tested and used a number of times , but we can not say with certainty that they are bug free . |
| 7 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 8 | I have been given free catalogues , invited to try any guitar I wished — not just the cheapo imports either but vintage stuff too — actually got useful information from people who , without exception , seem to be knowledgeable and often talented players , and generally made to feel welcome . |
| 9 | That is why we have been given free will , in order that we may choose the correct one . |
| 10 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 11 | Reserve strikers Ian Arnold and Paul Hanford have been given free transfers . |
| 12 | Students at Somerville are demanding free rape alarms and self defence classes … following the rape . |
| 13 | On ‘ E ’ tariff weekday sailings with Brittany Ferries , disabled drivers ' cars are carried free . |
| 14 | In 1950 a scientist by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky caused a considerable furore in the historical , religious and astronomical worlds by stating unequivocally that the flooding was caused by Venus which had been wrenched free from Jupiter and made an uncomfortably close encounter with earth . |
| 15 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 16 | Well , Bozz at school had some free tickets the music 's usually twot when you 're given free tickets ! |
| 17 | Guests are offered free transport to Seefeld 's golf course daily ; this hotel is simply the best you 'll find . |
| 18 | The glazes are lead free and non-toxic . |
| 19 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 20 | THOUSANDS of people have been offered free passage out of war-torn Sarajevo . |
| 21 | Waste incineration and oil recycling plants have been offered free to Polish companies on condition that they accept all shipments and keep all waste . |
| 22 | Good quality , well-designed , blank posters are supplied free to members and venues . |
| 23 | The meters are supplied free of charge , it 's er you can either o it yourself or you can get your local plumber to fit it . |
| 24 | That people are born free and equal is an a priori assumption , argued Duguit , whereas it is an incontestable fact that they were born as members of a collectivity . |
| 25 | All viewers are born free and equal in dignity and rights without distinction of origin , social status , opinion , sex and age . |
| 26 | Are born free , but everywhere in the chain , as to quote a famous phrase from Rousseau , the kind of noble savage view of the child . |
| 27 | The modern nation states , the product of 1945 above all , the grown-up children of the empires , are breaking free from their chaperones . |
| 28 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 29 | ‘ I am breaking free from the past . ’ |
| 30 | I found his blend of assurance , diffidence and wit beguiling , and I have often wondered what he might have done had he been born free . |