Example sentences of "be free [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 32 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 33 | Enterprise managers would be free to make their own deals with suppliers , but there would be no change in the basic concept of state ownership of industry . |
| 34 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 35 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex last week , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system . |
| 36 | Just as you do not wish others to inflict their desires upon you , you must leave it to them to be free to follow their own direction in life . |
| 37 | An underlying principle of the project was that each school must be free to develop its own proposal and curriculum plan in the light of its own particular setting , needs , and history , and that this was not only practically desirable but also essential if the professional autonomy of the school staff was to be respected . |
| 38 | In my Bill , for which I seek a Second Reading today , the provision is that Parliament should be elected by the single transferable vote in the first instance , but thereafter , in subsequent elections , Parliament should be free to determine its own electoral system as long as that is consistent with the principles of proportionality . |
| 39 | Farmers were free to use their own initiative more and had an incentive to increase crop-yields , i.e. profits . |
| 40 | In 1935 the French were free to arrange their own wine laws , but they are now subject to EEC regulations and I doubt that Champagne , despite its unique viticultural situation , would be allowed to dispense with a maximum yield in favour of an average production yardstick . |
| 41 | In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved . |
| 42 | Apart from natural justice principles , the exchange is free to establish its own disciplinary and arbitration procedures . |
| 43 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 44 | I was free to express my own thoughts and feelings — it hurt sometimes . |