Example sentences of "[prep] be independent " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an important feature of being independent and a vital ingredient of providing care in the community to people with all kinds of disabilities . |
| 2 | Again it 's a case of being independent . ’ |
| 3 | These audio-visual methods have the added advantage of being independent of the availability of the system . |
| 4 | CHILDREN love the Home Alone films because the notion of being independent is their ultimate fantasy . |
| 5 | For the first time in her life she was conscious of being independent and in charge . |
| 6 | Keep these simple to put on , as this will give the child confidence and the satisfaction of being independent . |
| 7 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 8 | Work , paradoxically enough for many small landowners and peasants , is actually an ‘ escape attempt ’ , a means of being independent from large-scale farms and other industrial enterprises . |
| 9 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |
| 10 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 11 | claimants did not generally feel Review Boards to be independent . |
| 12 | Delegates fear a split as minority hardline grouping displays bitterness Lithuanian Communists vote to be independent . |
| 13 | We have our own tour products , such a villa holidays but most people want to be independent . ’ |
| 14 | He proved to be independent , even at this early age . |
| 15 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 16 | The Treasury 's recent draft treaty revealed new thinking on some of EMU 's details , with , for instance , an option for the new central-banking institution to be independent of governments ( a suggestion that Britain had opposed ) . |
| 17 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 18 | The strongly authoritarian role of the head of the family has been undermined by the opportunities created by urbanisation for young people to be independent and earn a living outside the family , and by conceptions of the North American family as portrayed by the media . |
| 19 | You and the patient may be anxious for him to be independent , but he should not try to move about or do things alone before he is ready . |
| 20 | It is important for the spread to be independent of level in data analysis , whether fitting lines , smoothing , or dealing with multiple boxplots . |
| 21 | Their philosophers have liberated non-intellectuals by declaring faith to be independent of cleverness and education and social style . |
| 22 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 23 | But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves . |
| 24 | 3 Every resident has a right to be independent |
| 25 | You may need to help residents dress , bath or use the toilet , but as far as possible help them to be independent . |
| 26 | And Hideki was an introvert , who quickly learned to be independent and self-sufficient . |
| 27 | AT THE beginning of the 19th century , scientists considered magnetism and electricity to be independent . |
| 28 | We have to leave them to be independent and responsible people in their own right . |
| 29 | After the act , brokers either had to be independent , offering impartial advice on the spectrum of financial products , or tied , selling the products of one company . |
| 30 | Though the city 's finances were supposed to be independent , Polish control of the railways meant that any citizen wishing to use the trains had to change Danzig currency into Polish currency before buying a ticket . |