Example sentences of "free from [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the course of her book , she gives us by far the most detailed and interesting portrait of Mary ever written , free from the excesses of adulation or attack which characterize so much of the writing about her .
2 I was ruining his chances of getting free from the chains of misery attaching him to a rotten banlieue de Paris .
3 Such motivation may derive from the wish to control their own destinies ; the wish to break free from the shackles of group ownership and bureaucratic constraints ; or from a desire to save their own jobs and the jobs of their workforce .
4 Free from the constraints of didacticism , allowing his particular example to make a point without feeling he had to underline it , he showed in The Albatross four sharply realised apprentices learning too late the lessons of experience which greed and folly had brought to them .
5 Richard Middleton , Fellow of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators , explains how he and some of his colleagues take advantage of the festive season to produce personal expressions of goodwill in letterform , free from the constraints of commissioning clients
6 Christmas is a natural time for us to indulge ourselves , free from the constraints of commissioning clients , and as calligraphy lends itself admirably to the creation of ephemera such as greetings cards , most of us have a large collection of those many of our distinguished colleagues .
7 He nevertheless expressed the hope that Christian writers would be able to work free from the constraints of prejudice and censorship .
8 They both looked relaxed , an easy familiarity between them now that they were away from the office and cut free from the restrictions of boss and secretary .
9 It would have needed a later generation of social workers , free from the prejudices of war , to detect the frustration behind the mask of ingratitude and disloyalty .
10 But still , on the bus going to and from school , on her steady , daily runs in the park , swimming , weight-lifting , doing her exercises , and on those other rare occasions when she was alone and free from the demands of school , State , and family , Erika found herself thinking of Fritz , although what she thought she scarcely knew herself , except that she knew that she blushed when she did so … .
11 Ramsay MacDonald would never have exposed himself so apparently free from the burdens of state .
12 A young man asked his grandmother when he would be free from the temptations of love , and she said she did n't know . ’
13 I developed in my own way , free from the pressures of fashion .
14 ‘ Drug regulatory authority should be immune from political and public pressure and , above all , free from the pressures of action groups . ’
15 Although Villedommange is of the same échelle as its neighbouring premiers crus , its highest vineyards , which do not adjoin a dense mass of forest and are thus free from the ill-effects of transpiration , produce grapes of a superior quality .
16 Had we been as free from the fetters of manpower planning as Field when we negotiated the new deal the problem could have been solved overnight .
17 In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ .
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