Example sentences of "free [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 2 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 3 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 5 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 6 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 7 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 8 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 9 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 10 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 11 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 12 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 13 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 14 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 15 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 16 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 17 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 18 | In his other hand a grenade with the pin removed so he could n't put it down to free himself from the handcuffs , and so from the chair , and so from the room . |
| 19 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 20 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 21 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
| 22 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 23 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 24 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 25 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 26 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 27 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 28 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 29 | Even if you do n't want to go back to your ex-wife , counselling may help you to free yourself from the past . |
| 30 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |