Example sentences of "[v-ing] to free [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 3 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 4 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 5 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 6 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 7 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |