Example sentences of "free from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |
| 2 | Beautiful , but often brutal , nature is freed from the watchful control of man , and is totally at one with itself and its sometimes grisly inhabitants , whose primary motivation is day-to-day survival . |
| 3 | In the higher stages of communism each individual , freed from the compulsory roles of class-divided societies , will be capable of realizing his or her ( presumably natural ) potential . |
| 4 | Once thought is freed from the concrete situation the way is clear for symbolic manipulation and for Piaget 's stage of formal operation in which the real becomes a sub-set of the possible . |
| 5 | Once thought is freed from the concrete situation the way is clear for symbolic manipulation and for Piaget 's stage of formal operation in which the real becomes a sub-set of the possible ’ ( ibid. p. 172 ) . |
| 6 | It was impossible to be sure whether these were new recruits to the Krishnapur field , perhaps freed from the victorious siege of the feringhees somewhere else on the plain , or simply men who had deserted during the rains returning now to finish the job . |
| 7 | The absolutist state was necessary to maintain control of a peasantry freed from the politico-legal coercion of feudalism by the commutation of dues into money rents . |
| 8 | Geographers , freed from the traditional distinction between human and physical geography and with their special sensitivity towards water , earth and man , have in these both opportunity and challenge . |
| 9 | Her patronage of Bruce Oldfield notwithstanding , the Princess ' instinct for clothes , once freed from the stultifying dullness of her ultra-yah family , has proved to be more High Street than haute couture ; witness the acres of Di-wear replication in major chain stores and at weddings and company dances the length and width of the land ( and in Australia and the United States too where she is a considerable star ) . |
| 10 | With the establishment of the British Boxing Board of Control in 1929 boxing was freed from the private control of the gentlemen of the National Sporting Club , and despite the dominance of the United States , especially in the heavier weights , boxing remained an extremely popular professional sport . |
| 11 | A major reason for this is that the high productivity of fully automated plants satisfies the basic consumption needs of workers but , instead of this leading to a high level of satisfaction , workers freed from the immediate concern of making ends meet are then able to pose what Mallet takes to be the more fundamental problem of their alienation from their work . |
| 12 | Other private universities including Harvard and the University of Chicago created a framework for elite scientific research freed from the immediate demands of industry . |
| 13 | It was he , after all , who was the master of the Art , and now that Louisa had taken upon herself the task of preparing his way he was freed from the immediate pressure of time . |
| 14 | These Crown lands were freed from the common rights hitherto exercised over them , in compensation for the extinguishment of royal forest rights : in Windsor Forest the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were given powers to purchase compulsorily the cottages built on them . |
| 15 | But the spirit is immortal and will recover its powers when it is freed from the physical brain . |
| 16 | There is an opportunity for a subsequent improvement , if the system is freed from the worst effects of political interference , which should be made more explicit . |
| 17 | Officers of merchant ships were particularly vulnerable if they did not have in their possession a written protection from impressment issued by the Admiralty , and David Scott was enabled to oblige both Provost Watt of Forfar and several influential merchants of Dundee by securing the freedom of Peter Brown , the mate of the ship John and Nancy of Dundee , though in this case the Dundee magistrates had to provide an able seaman as a replacement for Brown before he was freed from the pressing tender . |