Example sentences of "free [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary .
2 This would ensure that the broadcasting institution was ultimately accountable to Parliament but at the same time would free it from direct government control in its day-to-day affairs .
3 But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes .
4 The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside .
5 It can also free us from many mistaken myths about Darwin himself .
6 Widening our concept of special educational provision to include the ‘ whole curriculum ’ approach will free us from such limitations .
7 The consequence is a metropolitan elite of ‘ spoiled children ’ , whose licence to provoke frees them from any need to enter into a dialogue with their audiences .
8 He ended with one of his most beautiful and profound utterances : ‘ Do you know what frees one from this captivity ?
9 Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control .
10 I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ .
11 For the centre of the metropolis the aim was to define the function of the various component parts and , while making them more efficient and dignified , to free them from damaging intrusion .
12 Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat .
13 ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss .
14 As Margaret Anne Doody puts it : ‘ Leapor plays with the fascination of female ugliness in such a manner as to free herself from conventional claims of feminine proprieties .
15 Katherine struggled to free herself from those fingers which gripped her too fiercely , from that intelligence which probed into her .
16 Something must be done to free her from this grip .
17 To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation .
18 While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) .
19 For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz .
20 These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better .
21 What moral blight upon the fair youth or our city will they offer to free us from next , I wonder .
22 On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ …
23 The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander .
24 She pointed to the frieze under the formidable warrior-king : ‘ General Yorck , General Blücher , General Scharnhorst , principal generals of the War of Liberation in which the German people freed themselves from French occupation in 1813 .
25 It 's not giving you total health , and free you from all sickness and diseases .
26 And keep us in his grace and and free us from all ills in this world and the next .
27 Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’
28 The alternative , they argue , is to let the great mass of people engage in market processes , freeing themselves from such dependency .
29 In freeing themselves from this burden they may need to make their escape into another language or culture , even by establishing geographical distance over thousands of miles of ocean .
30 We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings .
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