Example sentences of "[noun] have suffered a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even before opening , the New York Kunsthalle has suffered a setback .
2 The Institute is investigating an allegation that rock star Sting has suffered a £4m loss .
3 False rumours soon spread that Hardy had suffered a defeat and that no British Ship remained in the home waters to prevent imminent invasion .
4 On Aug. 17 , however , Shamuyarira denied that the President had suffered a defeat on the issue , and criticized the media for misleading reports .
5 Many lakes have suffered a pH drop of between 1 and 1.5 , making them at least ten times more acidic than they should be .
6 THROUGH no fault of its own , the most westerly village in Northern Ireland has suffered a demoralising 20 years of decline .
7 But he 's worked hard to adapt to the pace of things in England and because of that , his skill has suffered a bit .
8 This lady has suffered a lot of distress and I just do n't think courts are considering the victims when they are imposing sentences .
9 This lady has suffered a lot of distress and I just do n't think courts are considering the victims when they are imposing sentences .
10 A good suggestion might be , in the past this child has suffered a loss of some figure it was dependent on , and has compensated by becoming highly independent .
11 Since the introduction of computer-based indexing systems , alphabetical indexing languages have become more prevalent and UDC has suffered a reduction in use .
12 Gorbachev announced to the Congress on Dec. 26 that on the previous day Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov had suffered a heart attack , and was seriously ill in hospital .
13 For robberies , the six force areas have suffered a rise of 9.1 per cent from 5,920 cases to 6,458 .
14 Geographers have discovered a recent tendency for rural areas to see something of a recovery in population and employment levels , no matter where they are ; conversely , conurbation ( metropolitan ) areas have suffered a loss of population and employment , whether in London , the West Midlands or the North ; while intervening areas lie along a statistical continuum .
15 Thus , the disclosure that the Government 's attempts to broaden individual share ownership have suffered a setback came on you 've guessed it March 10 .
16 A BID to ease mortgage misery by asking for a bigger share of Government cash has suffered a setback .
17 Unfortunately Ken 's recovery has suffered a setback after seeing us still in the title race with only fourteen-sixteenths of the season remaining .
18 The 24-year-old has suffered a string of injuries this season , and recent health problems have left him with too little time to regain full fitness .
19 In my constituency , a care home owner admitted an elderly person over a weekend after that person had suffered a fall in her own home .
20 Meanwhile the surprise winners of East Germany 's election , the Conservative Alliance have suffered a set-back in their plans to reunify the 2 Germanies .
21 But defender Keith Proctor has suffered a reaction to his knee injury after playing for the reserves last weekend and is now due to see a specialist .
22 It had also been hoped that midfielder Michael Thomas would play this week but the former Arsenal midfielder has suffered a reaction to his Achilles problem and his comeback has been delayed .
23 Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage .
24 Like more orthodox Christians , the alchemists maintained that mankind had suffered a fall ; but this lapse from grace was not seen merely as a matter of original sin .
25 Nevertheless it is clear that Anglo-American relations had suffered a number of shocks since 1950 , while Churchill was quite wrong in his expectation that the Americans would be happier to work with him than with Labour .
26 In hospital Esther had tests including a CAT scan and an angiogram , and the doctors concluded that Esther had suffered a stroke from a thrombus .
27 yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void
28 In these circumstances , the group 's trading performance has suffered a setback .
29 Since the US Navy pulled out a year ago , Dunoon and Cowal has suffered a £10 million drop in its economy and unemployment has soared to 18 per cent .
30 While I ca n't give a cause of death at this stage , I can say the dead man had suffered a number of lacerations about his face and body and a stab wound to his side .
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