Example sentences of "[be] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 ’ ( ibid. p. 172 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the spirit is immortal and will recover its powers when it is freed from the physical brain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |