Example sentences of "had suffered [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The securities scandal , which broke in June [ see p. 38292 ] , centred upon the discovery that the Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi securities houses had made compensation payments to important clients who had suffered financial losses as a result of taking their investment advice . |
| 2 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 3 | The meeting approved the creation of a US$10,000 million development fund for Arab countries which had supported the coalition in the Gulf war and which had suffered economic damage from the war ; Egypt and Syria were likely to be the main beneficiaries . |
| 4 | Peter Bone said he and his family had suffered terrifying phone calls to their home in Newport . ’ |
| 5 | Ivor and Pauline had suffered terrible burns and spent weeks at Frenchay Hospital critically ill . |
| 6 | The young stonemason had suffered terrible head injuries and but for the attentions of a passing doctor , would have died at the scene of the accident . |
| 7 | Neither system was wholly satisfactory , but during the public inquiry into the Trident accident at Staines in 1972 evidence was heard that other aircraft had suffered similar happenings ( though in less critical circumstances and there had been no accident ) and the question was put : ‘ Why were these incidents not reported under the voluntary system ? ’ |
| 8 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 9 | According to statistics provided by human rights and business organizations , 1,598 Guatemalans had been murdered , 2,517 had suffered bodily harm and 906 had disappeared in the first six months of 1989 . |
| 10 | Sudan had suffered increased isolation internationally owing to its pro-Iraq stance over the Gulf crisis . |
| 11 | A survey by Living Magazine ( 14.8.89 ) which questioned 1,000 women , found that one-third had received obscene phone calls in the last year , 20 per cent of this group more than once , yet only 26 per cent had told the police , 13 per cent had been interfered with and 87 per cent of these kept silent ; 9 per cent had suffered indecent exposure and 92 per cent failed to report this . |
| 12 | The core of the Octobrist party , which had suffered major defections to the Right , and a new Progressive party , led by a group of Moscow industrialists , moved close to the Kadets , who in turn intensified their opposition to the government . |
| 13 | ‘ He had suffered appalling injuries . |
| 14 | Allitt had written in nursing notes that Liam had suffered violent sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 15 | She had suffered paranoid delusions for a number of months , that the house was electronically ‘ bugged ’ , that there was a camera in the television watching her and that she was being followed . |
| 16 | Pathologist Dr Ann Campbell told the inquest Mr Bain had suffered multiple leg injuries . |
| 17 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 18 | The 36-year-old victim of a stabbing incident had suffered multiple wounds to his back and stomach at a house in Bailey Bridge Road , Braintree , said Inspector Roy Dennis , head of Braintree and Witham CID . |
| 19 | The Pollard had suffered serious head injuries and later died in Frenchay hospital in Bristol . |
| 20 | Although he had suffered only a broken arm , it had been feared by two doctors at the scene that he had suffered serious head injuries . |
| 21 | Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence . |
| 22 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 23 | The non-intervention proposal was initiated by Ethiopia 's President Mengistu Haile Mariam whose forces had suffered serious reverses in recent months at the hands of Eritrean and Tigrean rebels [ see pp. 37239-40 ] . |
| 24 | ANAP had suffered serious losses in the March 1989 local elections [ see p. 36528 ] ; Akbulut remained overshadowed by its former leader and founder Turgut Özal , whom he had succeeded following Özal 's election as Turkey 's President in October 1989 [ see pp. 36985 ; 37051 ] . |
| 25 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 26 | A post-mortem examination showed he had suffered internal injuries , said a spokesman . |
| 27 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 28 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 29 | For many months afterwards , Cissie had suffered awful nightmares , when she would scream for her mam . |
| 30 | Blood-stained trousers indicated that Putt had suffered other injuries and he made it clear that he was unable to walk . |