Example sentences of "[verb] suffered from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In common with other Broads , Alderfen has suffered from algal blooms caused by phosphates and nitrate-rich pollution such as sewage and fertilisers .
2 It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years .
3 Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise .
4 we should tell you is that everybody here has suffered from mental health problems .
5 Understandably , Smith Square has suffered from collective schizophrenia .
6 The Midland , which has suffered from financial troubles , hopes to attract green consumers to the fund which will invest in companies which specialise in the monitoring and implementation of pollution control .
7 Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use .
8 In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment .
9 Kelly Good has suffered from cystic fibrosis since she was a baby .
10 There are many adults who 've had to face up to this problem and have , in actual fact , overcome it Susan Hampshire is one ; I believe Hans Anderson , also , has suffered from this difficulty — that with help they can overcome this and live a normal life .
11 The freshwater pearl mussel has suffered from over-zealous pearl hunters , particularly in Scotland , where an ancient law permits tinkers to fish for them .
12 The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints .
13 In the last two decades the British economy has suffered from high unemployment , and until recently , high inflation and low productivity growth .
14 The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway .
15 Sometimes decline can be explained as an inevitable concomitant of development ; thus the heyday of Valencian prosperity was matched by a dramatic decline in the silk industry of Granada and the smaller industry of the Aragonese valleys may have suffered from Catalan competition .
16 Shares in the privatised water and electricity companies , having suffered from Labour party threats to tighten price controls or even renationalise produced the most dramatic gains yesterday .
17 Although his crime had been extremely callous — after killing the boys he had consumed the remains of their half-eaten lunch — opponents of the death sentence had appealed for clemency on the grounds that Harris was mentally unfit for execution , having suffered from foetal-alcohol syndrome and extensive childhood abuse .
18 After having suffered from domestic fundamentalism and a devastating war , the Iranians showed impressive judgment by staying on the sidelines .
19 Outside the mouth of the River Tay in Scotland , one out of three fish netted suffered from enlarged cells , a raspberry-shaped tumour which causes the skin to bulge .
20 One of the patients originally participating in the study had to be excluded as she proved to have suffered from acute Campylobacter jejuni colitis .
21 One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion .
22 It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems .
23 In all cases , claimed Flint , the projects had suffered from insufficient planning , and inadequate attention to the needs of local people .
24 Critics of the privatization plan claimed that it was improvised , lacked clear conditions and had suffered from poor regulation .
25 Mr Smith , said the latest problems affecting the industry were similar to those hitting the UK coal industry , which had suffered from cheap imports from eastern Europe .
26 IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox .
27 In a recent National Computing Centre survey , 41% of respondents said they had suffered from physical security breaches , the most common cause being power failure .
28 Russians , as well as other nations , had suffered from these policies .
29 I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start .
30 BNP regional organiser Kevin Scott said the BNP had suffered from unfair treatment from the media and the cowardly attitude of the three other candidates .
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