Example sentences of "be free [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 've been free to go any time .
2 ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ?
3 These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work .
4 They are definitely NOT copyright and , if you want to , you are free to incorporate any of the code in the programs you write .
5 In a partnership the partners are free to make any arrangement they like which would be lawful between private persons .
6 ‘ the parties are free to make any arrangements which they like dealing with the subject matter of costs ; and it seems to me to make no difference whether that agreement is made before or after the court takes the matter into its consideration .
7 If presented as a guide , not a rule book , and project leaders are free to reject any of its provisions , they do not do so irresponsibly .
8 Following this Act , bus operators are free to provide any services they wish , subject only to giving six weeks ' notice , and to meeting the same safety standards as previously .
9 Of course , members are free to raise these issues , though the appropriate forum is the Annual General Meeting rather than the Annual Conference .
10 ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us .
11 All I want is a few answers , then you 're free to leave any time you like . ’
12 Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without .
13 Addressing the GPC on March 2 , Kadhafi repeated his suggestion that Libyans generally should be free to organize all import and export trade by themselves , adding that " any organization which takes care of this should be disbanded because it is officially a burden on the state " .
14 Because many others own identical commodities or commodities which are close substitutes which they are willing to sell , the owner will not be free to charge any price he chooses for his commodity .
15 She wanted me to be independent and strong , the ‘ successful ’ person I 'd been before having children , so that she could be free to do this .
16 If these kids had jobs to do , they would n't be free to do this and they 'd be gainfully working . ’
17 Married to Dick , she would be able to give her grandfather a home , would be free to renew that wonderful sexual experience as often as she wished , and , of course , to have children .
18 The company argues that since it is neither government-owned nor a sole supplier , it should be free to make any purchasing decisions it sees fit , without having to pay the Commission 's 3% tariff penalty against telecommunications equipment from outside the Community .
19 The chairman and deputy-chairman took two shares each , and the remaining directors one share each , and they were free to use these nominations as they saw fit , within certain broad guidelines established by parliament .
20 By law they were free to publish any work which related to a period before the Romanov dynasty came to the throne .
21 By asking for proposals from subordinates , he is able to test his position while being free to reject those proposals without political consequences .
22 All such a person can say , quoting Dicey , is that he or she is free to do that which no law prohibits .
23 Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’
24 Many co-workers — Tod included — razz him about it and everything , but Mikio is free to do this , to read in his own way .
25 On 8 August he and Nkrumah put their signatures to a document intended to seal their partnership : they would form a Federal Union and ‘ any state or territory in Africa is free to join this Union ’ .
26 It does not , however , follow from the fact that some departures from the terms of union have occurred that Parliament is free to ignore all the terms of union unilaterally and by ordinary process .
27 There is no time limit on complaints , so Sylvia Peters is free to settle some old scores .
28 Anyone is free to decide that life is too short for such unriddlings ; others ( I speak from experience ) may develop a taste for them .
29 Observe that the process is free to execute any of the corresponding SKIP guards ( unc and can only deadlock if it does execute one of these guards .
30 The organization is free to use any available social mechanisms to enforce compliance and ensure its own stability .
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