Example sentences of "who [is] [adj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , erm , as I understand it er calculations for in work benefit at erm , by somebody who 's separate from the normal benefit section |
| 2 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 3 | Asked if he had been in touch with his 43-year-old wife , who is absent from their country home in Chippenham , Wilts , the brigadier said : ‘ Of course I have . ’ |
| 4 | 9.1 In terms of the Regional Council 's policy , an employee who is absent from work as a result of a reported incident of violence is entitled to receive sickness allowances in accordance with the provisions of the relevant scheme of conditions of service . |
| 5 | I would advise against choosing a hypnotherapist who is anxious from the outset to charge you for a complete course of treatment . |
| 6 | The boy lives with his aunt but his mother , who is estranged from Luke 's father , often has him to stay for a couple of days . |
| 7 | Silverman , who is estranged from her industrialist husband Jeffrey , was among rich Republicans who helped fund George Bush 's 1988 election campaign . |
| 8 | There is the fellow who is idle from weakness , born idle as we say , a lazy character , and there is the idle man whose idleness imprisons and tortures him , because like a caged bird he longs to fly . |
| 9 | Imagine a scientist in the distant future who knows everything about the mechanism and neurology of vision , but who is blind from birth . |
| 10 | And it seems to me that in looking for in Rochester da Rochester 's admission that he wants a woman who is opposite from Bertha |
| 11 | Saint Ciel , who is fit from hurdling , is fancied for the Hyacinth Handciap ( 3.30 ) and Have A Nightcap is reportedly in good shape for the Crocus Claiming Stakes ( 4.0 ) . |
| 12 | Stella is a wild card both in the deepest recesses of Serena 's own mind and in the domain of middlemen , for Stella is the only character in the novel who is exempt from this status : ‘ Stella was in effect her own middleman , alone in the world , selling her personality , and very badly ’ ( 30 ) . |
| 13 | Another writer who is inseparable from the Vietnam war experience is Michael Herr who spent just under a year there from 1967–1968 for Esquire . |