Example sentences of "[vb base] suffered [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new hospital unit 's been created to help people who 've suffered serious head injuries . |
| 2 | Er mothers who 've lost children , people who 've been hit by joyriders , who 've suffered severe head injuries . |
| 3 | There are many who have suffered personal disaster and whose livelihoods have been destroyed by natural catastrophe or invasion . |
| 4 | These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself . |
| 5 | Tenants have suffered great distress ; many thousands of them have been forced out of their homes and businesses . |
| 6 | In the past year , 35 sites which were of ecological importance due to their plant and animal populations have suffered long term damage . |
| 7 | Feminists have launched major political campaigns about male violence and backed these up with the establishment of national networks of centres to help those who have suffered male violence . |
| 8 | They have suffered wholesale slaughter for the sake of the ivory trade . |
| 9 | Although no official statistics exist , local doctors estimate that 90 per cent of the population of the town of Nikel have suffered serious damage to both nervous and respiratory systems . |
| 10 | The terms ‘ physically disabled ’ and ‘ physically handicapped ’ cover people with a wide range of disabilities : the blind and partially sighted , the deaf and hard of hearing , people with congenital deformities , those who have suffered serious injury , those who suffer from crippling diseases such as arthritis , tuberculosis , ‘ organic nervous disorders ’ , and so on . |
| 11 | Many of the large military enterprises which formed the backbone of the city 's economy have suffered serious reductions in income . |
| 12 | Two have suffered serious side-effects from the standard Parkinson 's treatment . |
| 13 | Students are undoubtedly a section of the population who have suffered substantial hardship as a result of Government-inspired measures . |
| 14 | Countless other pubs which date from the Georgian period , or at least incorporate a significant element of Georgian building work , have suffered similar fates . |
| 15 | Three tributaries of the Mekong River in north-eastern Thailand have suffered devastating pollution as a result of the leakage of molasses from a sugar mill silo . |
| 16 | They are practices which ensure that those who have the advantage of a network of friends and relations in secure employment will have a better chance of obtaining jobs than those who have a network of friends and relations who have suffered long-term unemployment . |
| 17 | People who have suffered cerebral injuries ( such as strokes ) , however , may lose the ability to recognise stimuli from any one of these classes whilst remaining able to recognise stimuli from the other two classes . |
| 18 | They have suffered tremendous losses in income . |
| 19 | Millions of workers have been sacked from plantations and mines because of their companies ' losses ; farmers cultivating export crops on their own have suffered severe cuts in living standards . |
| 20 | SKINS WHICH HAVE SUFFERED SEVERE SUNBURN IN THE PAST , PARTICULARLY IN CHILDHOOD . |
| 21 | SHOULD Des O'Connor have suffered sleepless nights wondering whether he will wake up tomorrow to discover that Ken Dodd has become Lord Dodd , I have some words of consolation . |
| 22 | Most of these developments have bypassed the work of the established Rape Crisis Lines , which have been developing expertise in the counselling of women who have suffered sexual assault . |
| 23 | Over the years our members have suffered massive damage to their hearing . |
| 24 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 25 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 26 | Both authorities claim they have suffered unfair treatment when their spending needs have been assessed . |
| 27 | ‘ Claudius II has been welcomed by speech therapists and users as a product that makes day-to-day life easier and more tolerable for those who have suffered sudden speech loss , ’ explained Ian Lyon of BT 's Action for Disabled Customers Unit . |
| 28 | As a consequence some have suffered irreversible damage to their health . |
| 29 | They have convinced themselves and the public that each year they have suffered draconian cuts . |
| 30 | It will also be widely welcomed by all who believe in self-determination for these proud people , who have suffered Chinese oppression for nearly 40 years . |