Example sentences of "be free [verb] [pron] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have generally been free to regulate their own affairs , sometimes with statutory backing , and have been specifically exempted from the scope of competition laws . |
| 2 | Of course , you are free to make your own arrangements if you prefer . |
| 3 | Member States of the EC are free to determine their own policies towards competition within their national boundaries . |
| 4 | ‘ While the Labour Party must be free to reach its own conclusions , we should listen to the contributions which others wish to make to what must now become an important national debate . ’ |
| 5 | There has been some debate over the necessity of maintaining a central bank , when it is possible to have a free banking regime in which banks would be free to print their own notes to satisfy the demand for cash . |
| 6 | Subsidiaries will be free to set their own prices . |
| 7 | Land would remain state-owned and might not be bought or sold , but inheritance rights over land would be guaranteed and peasants would be free to set their own prices for their produce . |
| 8 | Under the agreement EC airlines would be free to set their own tariffs from January 1993 and to fly between any EC country . |
| 9 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
| 10 | Enterprise managers would be free to make their own deals with suppliers , but there would be no change in the basic concept of state ownership of industry . |
| 11 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 12 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex last week , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system . |
| 13 | In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved . |
| 14 | I was free to express my own thoughts and feelings — it hurt sometimes . |