Example sentences of "to be free " in BNC.
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| 1 | They range variously from Fokine 's Pierrot in Le Carnaval who only wants ‘ one kiss ’ and his puppet Petrushka who wants to be free to Ashton 's Alain mentioned above and MacMillan 's Bratfisch in Mayerling . |
| 2 | Elaine desperately wants to be free : free to fall in love , work hard and have fun . |
| 3 | They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free . |
| 4 | Speakers may still make respectful remarks about the market , but few want it to be free . |
| 5 | Lectures and concerts were to be given , for which topics of current interest should be very carefully chosen , and which had to be free for all comers . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 7 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 8 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 9 | He exists , stressed and traumatised , in complete conflict with his biological program , literally dying to be free . |
| 10 | He was best to be free of the humiliations and the uncertainties of the farm . |
| 11 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 12 | The Tvrdohlavi , just eight strong , wanted to be free to explore artistic avenues and to meet other creative people away from state influence . |
| 13 | Legally and socially , no country on earth tries so hard to be free of racism . |
| 14 | Mr McGovern also claims to be free of the banks , never having incurred much long-term debt . |
| 15 | I think we were both wanting to be free , to write our own work , yet we were afraid to relinquish the relationship that had kept us writing together so long . |
| 16 | A woman is not fit to be free . |
| 17 | These activists then recruited their friends , who were likely also to be Free Presbyterians . |
| 18 | To be free ? |
| 19 | People strove to be free of Nature , seeing it as something outside of themselves . |
| 20 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 23 | Once , 25 or 30 years ago , they were working class East-Enders who could n't run a business but found in driving a cab a way to be free . |
| 24 | Brightness is too famous to be free |
| 25 | ‘ We ca n't wait for Dr Banda to die to be free again . |
| 26 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 27 | All the doctors are achieving with their uncontrollable itch to boss , patronise and distribute public money is to establish an idiotic certainty in our morally confused age that condoms ought to be free because they are something the government wants us to use . |
| 28 | Moreover , he says , Delta 's haemoglobin is guaranteed to be free of the viruses that could contaminate the blood-derived product , and of any residual matter from the blood cells that might trigger allergic reactions in patients . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When prescription charges were introduced , the special clinics were exempted , and treatment continues to be free . |