Example sentences of "suffer from [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 All business tends to suffer from periods of under-capitalisation which stifle investment and expansion plans .
2 I used to suffer from spots , but they seem to have gone in the last year or two , I 'm thankful to say .
3 We know , moreover , that the more affluent among the old in Britain are more likely to feel that they enjoy good health and less likely to suffer from conditions which restrict their mobility and capacity to participate in a wide range of social and cultural activities than the least well-off ( GHS 1986 ; 126 ) .
4 The system is therefore liable to suffer from inaccuracies of the type discussed above .
5 Crohn 's disease patients and their relatives are more likely to suffer from disorders with a known or suspected autoimmune origin than members of the general population .
6 Nearly one-third of the citizens of Leningrad are said to suffer from diseases the upper respiratory tract as a result of atmospheric pollution .
7 He was to suffer from bouts of explosive flatulence for the rest of his life .
8 Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm .
9 After all , it is everyone 's children who stand to suffer from theories which , to take only one example , disdain the teaching of history in factual terms .
10 The eight-year project involving 50,000 people discovered that those with a high intake of vitamin C and beta carotene ( found in fresh fruit and vegetables ) were less likely to suffer from cataracts .
11 I told her I suffered from headaches .
12 This was a middle-aged man who had been involved in a road accident after which he suffered from headaches , difficulty in walking , and a total lack of sleep .
13 Dr Alan Stewart describes how in six weeks he suffered from headaches , nausea , loss of libido , and physical and mental fatigue as his levels of vitamin B and zinc fell quickly .
14 He vented his annoyance in his journals , reporting arguments between Minton and himself : He then proceeds to analyse the positions implicit in the above exchange in niggling detail , miserably aware that both he and Minton suffered from self-doubts and insecurity .
15 He suffered from bouts of indigestion .
16 From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years .
17 He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work .
18 argues that er , Wilson suffered from strokes throughout his life , not even emotionally recorded due his psychological condition .
19 The building was always damp , cold and we always suffered from chilblains in winter … ’
20 One of the excluded categories related to members who suffered from diseases or disabilities .
21 Mary Richardson , who suffered from depressions , committed suicide in November 1895 during a stay in Hastings with her daughter Dorothy .
22 There was a man who spoke a bit of English and he said they were going to send for a doctor , but I told them you suffered from fits and you 'd be all right . ’
23 Developed by Dr Arnold Wilkins at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit and Cambridge Optical , spectacles fitted with special lenses were tested on 20 schoolchildren who suffered from migraines , and 60 volunteer office staff working on VDUs under fluorescent lighting .
24 During the time of desolation a year before , he suffered from fantasies .
25 Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory .
26 Besides the interest charge , up from £1.6m , Britannia also suffered from delays in introducing reliable products at Actron , the electronic tagging company , reorganisation costs at Britannia Fire and underperformance at Sentrymatic Britannia .
27 They suffered from pains in the head or indescribable sensations of uneasiness in the bowels .
28 She is weak for lack of good food , she has plainly suffered from rickets , her body is not yet sufficiently mature for her to carry a child successfully to term , and on top of all that her baby is coming in quite the wrong fashion .
29 Some of these , too , suffered from problems of ambiguity and opaqueness .
30 In the past , studies of Chinese management have suffered from problems of access to the inner workings of organisations and enterprises .
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