I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(a) free choice
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Students have an entirely free choice of what to study at university.
a free country (= where people’s actions are not too restricted )
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You can go where you like – it’s a free country.
a free gift (= something that a shop or business gives you )
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If you spend over £50, you get a free gift.
a free press (= reporters whose reports are not restricted by the government )
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I am glad that we have a free press in this country.
a free society
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Censorship has no place in a free society.
a rough/free translation (= one that is not very exact )
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It’s a rough translation but I think the meaning is clear.
be cut (free) from the wreckage
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She had to be cut free from the wreckage by firemen.
be free from constraints (= not be limited by them )
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No film producers are free from the constraints of censorship.
be released/freed on bail (= be allowed to stay out of prison if you pay or agree to do something )
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The men were questioned yesterday before being released on bail.
break free of/slip its moorings
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The great ship slipped her moorings and slid out into the Atlantic.
free admission
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The cost includes free admission to the casinos.
free agent
free and easy
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the free-and-easy atmosphere of the local pub
free collective bargaining
free enterprise
free fall
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The spacecraft is now in free fall towards the Earth.
free flow
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They have accused the government of trying to block the free flow of information.
free house
free kick
free love
free market
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a free market economy
free marketeer
free of charge (= with no cost )
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Delivery is free of charge.
free pardon
free period
free port
free publicity
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Giving away samples is one way of getting free publicity for your products.
free radical
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It is thought that free radicals can damage cells.
free sb/sth from constraints
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Summer vacation is a time when children are freed from the constraints of routine.
free trade
free verse
free vote
free will
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He came of his own free will.
free (= with everyone allowed to vote for who they want )
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These will be the country’s first free multi-party elections.
free
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Guests have free entry to the hotel spa and gym.
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Entry is free for children.
free (= you do not pay extra for it )
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We offer free delivery anywhere in the UK.
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Delivery is free for purchases over £20.
free
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Excuse me, is this seat free?
free/spare time
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He spends all this free time watching television.
got...free
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I got a few games free when I bought my computer.
release/free a prisoner
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Hundreds of prisoners were released.
sb's free hand (= the hand someone is not already using )
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Amy was stroking the dog with her free hand.
wriggled free
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The dog wriggled free and ran off.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
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The huge black doors of the boat-house had been fastened back to allow free access .
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Southwestern Cable is providing free access to its high-speed Roadrunner Internet service in 14 public libraries within its service area.
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Satellite communications will expedite progress, especially since some of the operators have already promised free access in developing countries.
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Allowed free access to their own reward centers, many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts.
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Does an open school mean totally free access to teachers, class rooms and corridors at all times?
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Sharing your address is a small price to pay for free access .
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They are completely true to the ideals of the National Gallery: public accessibility, free access , no selling of pictures.
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The document advocates free access to information, as well as free expression.
agency
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Dodger Vice President Fred Claire thinks his acquisition of a shortstop could come either through trade or free agency .
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Now, routinely, free agency is an option that must be considered in the annual personnel decisions of each team.
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More players will be released as teams get down to the $ 67.4 million salary cap before free agency begins Friday.
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This form of free agency appears here to stay.
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Actually, though, if the other owners had approved of his free agency proposal, Finley probably would have withdrawn it.
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Then that will take away some of the importance of free agency .
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Lost 1B-3B Charlie Hayes to free agency .
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In 1975, free agency became a reality when two players won their lawsuits against Major League Baseball.
agent
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That's when I realised that I couldn't go on with this free agent nonsense.
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Wonder if the new owners will invest some of it in signing free agents during the offseason?
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The Giants also have accepted the loss of some of their 11 free agents .
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You can be a free agent , trading or stealing, building or fighting.
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No longer was he to be a free agent in the matter of policy.
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Bagwell's value on the free-\#agent market will be established when he actually becomes a free agent.
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By this test X is a free agent .
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Center John Coker and guard Terrence Rencher, rookies who were not on the playoff squad, also are free agents .
copy
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For a free copy , send an sae to.
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For a free copy , call the center at 619-594-6933.
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Every member receives a free copy and these directories are also supplied to contractors, agents and venues.
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Some customers have received free copies of the software for the current year.
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Phillips have also put together a Man's Guide to Skin Care - you can obtain a free copy by writing to.
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For further information or free copies of our brochure and timetable telephone or write.
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Friends taking part in the visit will receive a free copy of the newly-published guidebook to the complex.
country
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A free country in a free world is always at risk from high winds and rough seas.
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But these days there was little left to hunt and little free country left to do it in.
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The hon. Gentleman may have noticed that this is a free country .
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When Miihlenberg learned that it was indeed a free country , he made the best of things.
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The scheme will be widened to other rabies-free countries next year if the trial is successful.
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The government of a free country must conduct its business openly to the greatest possible degree.
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Well, it is a free country isn't it?
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It's still a free country , innit?
election
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But what constitutes a free election ?
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And the new genre of populist politicians will have to deliver far more than free elections .
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The first genuinely free elections since 1945 were held in March 1990.
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In most of these countries, the advances came in the form of free elections or a peaceful transfer of power.
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Moto had planned to return on Aug. 18 to demand the legalization of political parties and the holding of free elections .
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And most of the former Warsaw Pact nations have trouble deciding if they want either free elections or free markets.
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The Bonn government said the resignation was insufficient and free elections must follow.
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They advocated some form of participatory democracy with free elections and a multi-party system.
enterprise
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It's only free enterprise , after all.
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But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system.
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It shows free enterprise Toryism at its best.
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Few understood how free enterprise could work.
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All this is being done in the name of free enterprise .
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But society is not all cooperation; a measure of competitive free enterprise is inevitable.
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This can be felt particularly strongly by corporate officials if the law attempts to interfere with free enterprise .
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Some free enterprises argue that if the highway is built with private funds, there should be no government regulation.
fall
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A procedure for transforming to a frame in free fall is described in Section 6.6.
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And he almost got it three weeks ago when it was obvious the team was in free fall .
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Thus we have verified that a transformation to a frame in free fall is always possible. 6.7.
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It is emphasized here that there is no rotation in a frame in free fall .
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Floyd investigated it soon after free fall had begun.
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Einstein next considered the implications of the equivalence principle for motion in free fall , that is to say motion under gravitational forces alone.
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Wild speculation, low margin requirements and sheer panic triggered the free fall that set off the Great Depression.
flow
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Companies surely benefit from being quizzed about their strategies and from a free flow of ideas with the market.
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They said that without his presence, there will be a freer flow of ideas, especially from Smith and Gentry.
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But that free flow of images is a threat to photojournalism.
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We depend on a free flow of ideas.
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Not sniffling, it's free flow .
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An unnatural element is introduced between the writer and the free flow of creative thought.
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A self-sufficient community is a thrombosis, a deadly block to the essential free flow of profits.
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Removing obstacles to the free flow of people and trade involves new laws.
gift
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Last year Golf Monthly gave one of these pitch repairers as a free gift which I still use regularly.
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They want photo stories, tales of holiday romances, horoscopes and advice columns as well as free gifts of make-up and jewellery.
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Hassall Homes, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, is even offering the normal five percent deposit as a free gift .
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And our free gift this month is a recipe leaflet showing you how to create delicious calorie-reduced meals.
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Polished performer Making the most of your free gift .
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The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine.
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There's also a free gift wrapping service on any purchase over £10.
hand
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With his free hand , he beckoned the startled onlookers to come closer.
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No advanced industrial nation gives corporations a freer hand in busting unions.
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He leaned forward, the bottle tilted, his free hand pulling and twitching on the wheel and tapping the throttle.
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With his free hand he was softly pushing back her hair, sending goosebumps scattering from Shiona's head to her toes.
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Her free hand reached down through her lap to grab a sincere handful of my crotch.
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Money is available for new players and he has a free hand to change the backroom staff.
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Ruth shook her head and then with her free hand scooped her hair back from her face.
kick
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Anthony should be higher cos he takes free kicks .
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Another eight minutes and Willie Jamieson powered in a header from an Iain Cameron free kick to complete the reversal of fortunes.
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A free kick 25 yards out perfectly placed and left the Derby defence bemused and helpless.
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Lee King floated home a simple free kick for the third on 29 minutes.
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But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued.
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Then, from a McKinlay free kick , McPherson forced Fridge to make a spectacular, one-handed save.
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They went one down, when Ian Helliwell struck from a free kick .
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Cook forced Howells to backpedal and push a floater over the bar, while Andy Toman curled a free kick just wide.
lunch
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If these Politicians have their way, there may literally be no free lunch for millions of children!
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There is no free lunch , there is no donation without strings.
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Foaming schooners, free lunch , fish fry Fridays, poker in the back room, arguments settled in the alley.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch .
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There is no free lunch for any segment of society.
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Contemporary cosmology even suggests that the whole universe might have appeared out of the quantum vacuum: the ultimate free lunch .
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If your company provides free lunches , don't be deterred from missing one occasionally and buying your own apple.
man
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So last year, the court threw out the conviction and made Lanier a free man .
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It was argued that only property-owners had the economic independence necessary to be a free man .
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Paradoxically he is the only free man in the community, as he pays no taxes and is not subject to conscription.
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Ahab feels then that he must destroy these evil forces in order to survive as a free man .
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He could honestly say that on waking this morning he was thankful to feel he was a free man .
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Maybe a ruined man is the only free man.
market
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They must be allowed to make profits in a free market that co-exists with the planned economy.
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Certainly, the free market is not free of problems.
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But theirs was never a free market .
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But since the spread of the free market to the less developed world, the incentives have run the other way.
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The aim of Gatt is to tear down trade barriers and open up free markets .
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Clerics who watched the old establishment crumbling found it difficult to enter an ecclesiastical free market .
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A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality.
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In a free market , competition drives prices down to the fair market price, with different prices on each street corner.
press
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A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way.
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For without an informed and free press there can not be an enlightened people.
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It strikes at the very fundamentals of a free press , by placing a cost barrier on access to information.
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You can not do a film about the importance of a free press and bore you to death.
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In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of.
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We think he should, on free press grounds and more.
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I believe in a free Press , with rights to freedom of expression and to report that which is truthful.
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A free press burst out of the shadows within a few months of the collapse of the Suharto regime.
radical
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It's believed that pollution can form substances in our body known as free radicals which speed up ageing.
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Two hot areas: products for dieters and antioxidants, which are thought to neutralize so-called free radicals that can damage cells.
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The mechanism of the process is brought about by the initial ionisation of water and the subsequent production of free radicals .
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Left to their own devices, these free radicals cause tissue damage.
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Reduced glutathione is known as a major low molecular weight scavenger of free radicals in cytoplasm.
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However, the products obtained from reactions with halides can be rather surprising - ie the dithiadiazole can trap free radical intermediates.
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As a result, new classes of free radical are particularly interesting to chemists.
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In 1880 the first cyclic sulphur-nitrogen free radical - - was prepared as a deep green powder with a metallic lustre.
rein
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So, goes the conspiracy, the Foreign Office can now give free rein to its instinctive Arabism.
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Then I pretty much give them free rein .
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As he drove he was able to allow his thoughts a free rein .
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No, it was thanks to my culinary abilities that Marie-Claude gave me free rein of both her kitchen and her bedchamber.
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I would discuss the script, say, on proportional representation, and then give him free rein .
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But at that minute, having allowed them free rein , guilt and self-condemnation were riding her hard.
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His moral reading of events was given free rein .
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The special conditions at Westminster are one part of the explanation of the relatively free rein given to counter-insurgency and covert activity.
ride
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Because as part of their battle plan the taxi drivers are offering them free rides .
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It is still acting as if Democrats offer a free ride to Medicare reform and the Republicans a drive over the cliff.
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Suppose we get a free ride into the land of happiness?
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Taking the patriarchal code literally, however, gives Kelly Flinn a free ride on coveting.
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Formal inauguration ceremonies are planned for December 17 followed by free rides over the December 18-19 weekend.
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The company got a free ride on just about everything.
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Read in studio A glider pilot is trying to popularise a new aerial sport by taking people for free rides .
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But even those that match expectations get no free ride .
speech
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A truly socialist legal system and democracy complete with free speech and free media were called for.
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But free speech is taken for granted, and authorities have traditionally practiced minimum government.
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Strauss alleged that this was an infringement of his absolute privilege of free speech and as such was a contempt of Parliament.
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Otherwise, free speech which is the strength of the Nation will be the cause of its destruction.
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This is just the latest example of the threat to free information and even free speech presented by the nuclear energy lobby.
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The flag nonsense violates First Amendment free speech protections.
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In my view the appellant's argument founded on free speech is without merit.
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Numerous Court cases have made it clear that there are limits to free speech .
throw
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They missed 10 of 26 free throws and turned the ball over 16 times.
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He even took out his mouthpiece and chatted up the referees during free throws .
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On the ensuing inbounds pass, Bobby Edwards fouled Bailey, who made one of two free throws .
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There are two points up on the scoreboard for Oregon, but they came from a pair of free throws by Sally.
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Out on the court, the players are practicing free throws in groups of four.
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Cal used that for a 6-0 run and scored 15 consecutive points on free throws during that stretch.
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Then Willis made two more free throws .
time
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During free time she would make sure everyone had sufficient to do.
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Coburn plans to spend much of her free time writing.
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The crisis shows something else - the vulnerability of our economies and lifestyles, and the free time they sustain.
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All of which is to say, maybe I slept so much simply because I had so much free time .
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Most of her free time was spent in Water Gypsy's main cabin, reliving the memories it held for her.
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She loses the community of women who hand their children back and forth so that each can have some free time .
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But he spends most of his free time jumping off mountains paragliding.
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With the extra free time , they might do more volunteer work, Jerome said.
trade
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Politically he was a radical, keenly interested in free trade and home rule.
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It is simply a free trade area with not even vague plans for eventual political union.
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Compare, for instance, its use in free speech, free love, free dinner and free trade .
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But the biggest blind spot is the inability of Bush and Evans to see that there are other perspectives on free trade .
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Status: Regional grouping for free trade between member countries and for promotion of wider free trade co-operation.
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We have maintained our share of the free trade market, despite intense competition and considerable pressure on margins.
vote
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It called for a free vote on marijuana, and also for possible referendums on abortion and the restoration of capital punishment.
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He has spent his life campaigning for free trade unionism and free votes .
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Members are traditionally allowed a free vote and can not be instructed by their party to follow a line.
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On a free vote the amendment was carried by 292 votes to 246, a majority of forty six.
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The issues of Maastricht - single currency, sovereignty and legal structure - deserve thorough scrutiny and a free vote .
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Who is really winning will not be known before the free vote on the embryo Bill in the new year.
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No wonder, it will be a free vote .
will
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This is made clear in his controversy with John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, on the subject of free will .
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Humans could no longer be allowed any such privileged, mystical feature as free will to distinguish them.
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Physical possession would be emotional pillage, her identity, free will and pride the spoils he claimed for himself.
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Her mouth opened of its own free will to his playfully probing tongue, welcoming the invader.
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What we need is an objective test that we can apply from the outside to distinguish whether an organism has free will .
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The third question was: If everything is determined, what becomes of free will and our responsibility for our actions?
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She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will .
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To some extent, adults can choose of their own free will whether to deal with their grief or not.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an independent/a positive/a free etc thinker
be home free
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He's lost a lot of weight, but he's not home free yet.
do sth of your own free will
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Bronson gave us his confession of his own free will.
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For all men serve him of their own free will.
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Her mouth opened of its own free will to his playfully probing tongue, welcoming the invader.
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I came back of my own free will on Friday, and went to the game yesterday.
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I say this of my own free will.
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She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will.
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To some extent, adults can choose of their own free will whether to deal with their grief or not.
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Without any reason he left the Firm of his own free will and went to live in Brighton.
feel free
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"Can I use the microwave?" "Oh, feel free."
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"I hope you don't mind if I use your phone." "Of course not. Feel free."
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Please feel free to stop me and ask questions whenever you like.
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But she tells me she still does not feel free.
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Help him or her feel free to talk.
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How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life?
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I felt free in a new way.
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If not, feel free to discard them and draw your own.
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If you should wish to look inside the packet, before sending it, feel free to do so.
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So he felt free to go for broke.
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So how is it they feel free to ask those parallel questions of other people?
give (full/free) rein to sth
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Despite giving full rein to Laura's inner struggles and torments, Fuentes is far more interested in the grand scale.
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So, goes the conspiracy, the Foreign Office can now give free rein to its instinctive Arabism.
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The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions.
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You'd be given free rein to run the show how you wanted it.
give sb (a) free rein
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I would discuss the script, say, on proportional representation, and then give him free rein .
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No, it was thanks to my culinary abilities that Marie-Claude gave me free rein of both her kitchen and her bedchamber.
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Such as he can not comprehend that which prompts others to give their heart free rein !
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Then I pretty much give them free rein .
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While watching him at work she impulsively asked to borrow his materials and followed his advice to give her imagination free rein .
set sb free/loose
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After six years in prison, Louis was set free.
there's no (such thing as a) free lunch
walk free
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Ferguson walked free after the charges were dropped.
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If more evidence isn't found, Harris will walk .
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Some prisons are so overcrowded that convicted felons are allowed to walk free.
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But they walked free from Bristol Crown Court after the judge ruled that there was no case to answer.
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Green Berets walk free from Salvador siege.
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He walked free from court after after it was revealed that a detective in the case was sleeping with his first wife.
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Heather Mallender's murderer walks free - that sort of thing.
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Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months' time.
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Or Kevin and Ian Maxwell, who walked free after a trial costing upwards of £25 million?
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Our courts and prisons are so overcrowded that convicted felons walk free.
wrench yourself away/free
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Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away.
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Claws snagged on the photographer's clothing, but he managed to wrench himself away.
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Without you white birds would wrench themselves free from my paintings and fly off dripping blood into the night.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"How much is it to get into the concert?" "Oh, I think it's free ."
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free oxygen
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A free bus service will be provided from the parking lot at the train station.
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a free exchange of information
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Activists were calling for a free press and political reforms.
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All Americans have the right of free speech.
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Are you free next weekend?
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Are you free to talk for a couple of minutes?
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Bulgaria's first free elections were held in 1990.
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During "Golden Time", the pupils are free to choose the activity they would like to do.
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Excuse me, is this seat free ?
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He was free again, after 10 long years in jail.
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I'll be free in about five minutes. Can you wait?
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I'm free on Wednesday evening, if you want to go out to dinner then.
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I'm saving these tokens to get a free poster.
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I had just left home, and was enjoying the feeling of being free and independent at last.
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Is this chair free ?
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Parking is free after 6 pm.
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Sometimes you realize how lucky you are to live in a free society.
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The clinic offers free advice on contraception.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A member is entitled to a judgment that is free from any extraneous or ulterior motive.
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But they would've given up their vocation just to be free of you.
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Floyd investigated it soon after free fall had begun.
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In the class-action lawsuit unveiled Tuesday, doctors said such punishment would be a violation of their free speech rights.
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Many of you know that free range chickens are a very important part of Crediton.
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Maybe Bobby and I could have lunch again if he was free .
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Send for free Endangered Desserts of the World poster!
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The room was warmer, quieter and draught free .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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It will free up some screen real estate.
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Only 24 percent said the slowdown in building activity had freed up enough planners and inspectors to speed up processing time.
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Still, speedy resolution of some cases could free up those vital human resources for more complicated ones.
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He wants massive cuts in defense spending to free up federal revenue for schools, health care and domestic programs.
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Now these students will be able to use the time freed up by dropping GCSEs to focus on practical skills.
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Occasionally, I apply diluted fish emulsion to free up useful elements in the soil.
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In 1989, then Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley aimed to free up the rental market by abolishing rent controls.
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Mission-driven budgets free up resources to test new ideas.
■ NOUN
attempt
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In a last desperate attempt to free himself of investigation, Nixon dismissed the special prosecutor Cox in October 1973.
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FitzAlan ignored this attempt to free herself, as he had all the others.
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He shook his head vigorously in an attempt to free himself of the gloomy feeling which oppressed him.
control
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He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State.
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Political, economic, and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control .
hostage
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They freed their hostages , including the ambassador, and left the embassy peacefully on Oct. 7.
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A deal to free the hostages fell through, apparently because their release would have left the rebels without bargaining power.
prison
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Last Friday Jacqueline Fletcher was freed from prison .
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There, surprised Felix Holt finds her when he is freed from prison .
prisoner
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In three days of releases in early September 465 prisoners were reported to have been freed .
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The rules are simple in that all you have to do is to move the blocks around to free the prisoner .
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It worried Lord Auckland that a court could now refuse to free a prisoner whom his creditor wished to see released.
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Farc commanders said the freed prisoners would not return to combat.
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She had decided not to free the prisoners , so now she had to see what happened to the passengers.
slave
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On the year of jubilee all slaves are freed , all debts are cancelled and the land lies fallow.
struggle
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That struggle to free the Democrats from outdated thinking has demanded more political courage than Clinton is usually credited with.
■ VERB
manage
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Aird, was caught in the rigging wires and was nearly drowned until Jack managed to free him.
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Stanton later managed to free himself, called police and told them his stolen car was equipped with a tracking device.
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Using his hands to steady himself, he managed to free his leg from the sucking morass.
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He managed to free himself only when an ambulance team talked him into trying to wiggle his fingers.
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A fire crew from the town's station were called to the scene and they managed to free him within minutes.
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Inside the car, he managed to free some of his bonds.
offer
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What moral blight upon the fair youth or our city will they offer to free us from next, I wonder.
try
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The Olympians were reluctant to try to free him by force.
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Both boats then reversed in front of me and two people from each boat set about the bridge, trying to free it.
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I tried to free it, using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase.
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He was still holding her face, trying to free her hair from its clip so it could tumble down.
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Then I was pushed against Sir Oswald, whom I saw trying to free himself.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an independent/a positive/a free etc thinker
be home free
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He's lost a lot of weight, but he's not home free yet.
do sth of your own free will
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Bronson gave us his confession of his own free will.
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For all men serve him of their own free will.
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Her mouth opened of its own free will to his playfully probing tongue, welcoming the invader.
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I came back of my own free will on Friday, and went to the game yesterday.
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I say this of my own free will.
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She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will.
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To some extent, adults can choose of their own free will whether to deal with their grief or not.
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Without any reason he left the Firm of his own free will and went to live in Brighton.
give (full/free) rein to sth
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Despite giving full rein to Laura's inner struggles and torments, Fuentes is far more interested in the grand scale.
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So, goes the conspiracy, the Foreign Office can now give free rein to its instinctive Arabism.
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The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions.
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You'd be given free rein to run the show how you wanted it.
give sb (a) free rein
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I would discuss the script, say, on proportional representation, and then give him free rein .
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No, it was thanks to my culinary abilities that Marie-Claude gave me free rein of both her kitchen and her bedchamber.
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Such as he can not comprehend that which prompts others to give their heart free rein !
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Then I pretty much give them free rein .
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While watching him at work she impulsively asked to borrow his materials and followed his advice to give her imagination free rein .
there's no (such thing as a) free lunch
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After being freed Tuesday, the whale swam toward the ocean.
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He joined the resistance movement in order to free his country from the enemy.
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His supporters are demanding that he be freed from prison.
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Kirk battled for eight hours to free himself from the wreckage.
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Many of these young offenders should have been freed a long time ago.
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Susan managed to free her right hand from her attacker with a violent twisting movement.
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The allies arrived in Brussels on September 3rd and Antwerp was freed the next day.
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The dolphins will be freed into the ocean once their injuries have healed.
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The horse's eyes were filled with terror as it struggled to free itself from the deep, sucking mud.
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The kidnappers freed the last two hostages unharmed.
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Try freeing some memory by shutting down a few applications.
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We're going to need some rope to help free the girl.
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Working from home will free up more time to spend with your family.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A strange light frightens her, and she screams to be freed from the room, falling unconscious when escape is denied.
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She and her fellow students were told that their mission was to free the peasants from feudalism.
III. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
break
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People who find a way to break free feel jubilant about their escape.
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Did it mean that more bamboos were breaking free ?
set
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He used to plead in court at the age of six to have his father set free .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They will provide credit reports free to consumers once a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Why was this guy walking around free ?