Example sentences of "suffered [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The final stage of work is on the desalinisation of the vault and walls which have suffered through the centuries from water seepage ( from 1580 until 1811 the crypt was completely closed to visitors for this reason ) .
2 ‘ We are working hard here to change a lot of things after all the problems the club suffered off the field last season .
3 The Pest Control industry suffered as the recession really took hold and at the British Pest Control Association there was a great wailing and a gnashing of teeth .
4 It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756 .
5 Held : A person who negligently starts a fire is liable for injuries suffered by a fireman while attempting to put out the fire , regardless of whether the particular injuries suffered by the fireman were reasonably foreseeable or whether the injuries were suffered as the result of exceptional or merely ordinary risks undertaken by the fireman .
6 All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans .
7 Lebanon had already suffered for the Palestinians ' presence .
8 Caterham 's turnover has suffered during the recession and the company is budgeting for a further drop to £7.96m in 1993 .
9 The Yasukuni shrine issue had sparked fierce controversy in 1985 when Yasuhiro Nakasone became the first post-war Prime Minister to make an official visit [ see p. 34559 ] , an action which drew fierce criticism from neighbouring countries which had suffered during the Pacific War .
10 Roll a D6 for each wound suffered during the combat .
11 The team is now in place but the total reorganisation task has been expensive and operational efficiency has suffered during the process of change .
12 He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 .
13 That encapsulated the sort of goalmouth frustration United suffered throughout the game .
14 Without the emergence of Hitler and his National Socialists all that was rotten in Germany , that had been positively fostered by Romanticism and encouraged by the humiliation that Germany had suffered under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles — racism , social Darwinism , anti-intellectualism , phoney mysticism — might have persisted indefinitely and gradually eaten away the fabric of the country and its culture , gone unchallenged by the forces of reason , lain for all time under layers of sophistry . …
15 Their older emotional attachments suffered with the decision to grant independence to India , Burma and Ceylon , but the new post-war MPs who came into the party ( particularly at the 1950 election ) were more exclusively concerned with domestic policy .
16 Wales manager Robert Norster revealed : ‘ Tony has suffered with the problem for quite a while , and the doctor said it had to be put in plaster . ’
17 Again the countryside suffered with the closure of rural lines , may of which were in Wales .
18 For the past week the Mayor has suffered with the men as they respond to early morning calls .
19 It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months .
20 It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months .
21 However , few suffered in the way they feared .
22 Four of Howard 's Marine players are included in the HFS squad , although midfielder Jon Gautrey is struggling to overcome a knee ligament injury suffered in the weekend victory over Worksop .
23 The abbey was founded by William the Conqueror to celebrate his victory over King Harold and as an atonement for the loss of life suffered in the battle .
24 The handles were of rare and fine quality which was not matched by the paste ; colours had suffered in the firing and were dull from overheating ; a Meissen Fabeltiere fluted ecuelle , circa 1740 , sold for £13,000 ( $22,200 ) , estimate £6–8,000 .
25 However , these surpluses or PSDR ( Public Sector Debt Repayment ) shrank rapidly after 1989 as government revenue suffered in the wake of the most protracted period of recession since the Inter-War years .
26 River traffic suffered in the Revolution as the railways had done .
27 The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed .
28 Patients suffered in the Winter of Discontent in 1979 .
29 Just think of the mental agony you and your family would have suffered in the change .
30 The Longbridge car plant in the constituency has suffered in the recession and Labour needs a swing of only 2.5 per cent .
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