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

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1 Coastal waters have suffered most , yet they play the most important role in the chain of life as that is where the majority of marine species spend at least part of their lives , for example in the North Sea many fish have been found to suffer from skin infections , deformed skeletons and tumours .
2 These horses are more likely to suffer from alkalosis than acidosis .
3 It is still standard practice to give priority to boys ' education , particularly in families where economic resources are scarce , and illiteracy among women is 10% higher than for men.5 Girls are more likely to suffer from non-attendance , their drop-out rate is higher and they remain the low achievers .
4 Long-stay hospital patients have been found to suffer from malnutrition
5 Directly linked to the tapwater issue is the EC 's proposal to control nitrates entering water liable to suffer from eutrophication ( see the discussion in Chapter 1 ) .
6 She continues to suffer from episcleritis and has also been found to have an ovarian cyst , but there is no clinical , radiological , or laboratory evidence of active Crohn 's disease .
7 For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age .
8 This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers .
9 And you are 80% more likely to suffer from scalp inflammation if you have eczema or psoriasis anywhere on your body .
10 Residents with some degree of mental impairment are likely to form a high proportion of those in a residential home , given that most old people in care are over eighty , and one in five of those over eighty are likely to suffer from dementia ( Norman , 1987a ) .
11 Present evidence suggests that the numbers of the elderly who will find difficulties in looking after themselves will therefore increase : for example , about 20 per cent of the 80-and-over group are likely to suffer from dementia ( Grundy , 1986 ) .
12 You will not only lose weight and have greater vitality , you will also find that you are able to think more dearly and are less likely to suffer from stress .
13 ‘ German research , ’ they added , ’ appears to suffer from lack of co-ordination … insufficient information is being paid to biological experimentation … ’
14 Many others would not allow their animals to suffer from lack of feed or , in the case of cows , the cessation of milking .
15 In the longer term the offspring of depressed mothers are more likely to suffer from childhood depression .
16 Everyone knows that you do n't have to play tennis to suffer from tennis elbow , likewise carpal tunnel is not the cause by vibrating hand tools .
17 If your puppy is one of the few to suffer from travel sickness , it is best to get it started on tablets as soon as possible .
18 In another study , researchers have said that premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood than youngsters born after a full-term pregnancy .
19 A few weeks after the opening of the play , he once more began to suffer from bronchitis .
20 For some , especially Siamese cats , it can cause gastric upsets , and if milk is given without alternative water , such cats are liable to suffer from diarrhoea .
21 Compensation comes later , though ; their heavy bones make black women less likely to suffer from osteoporosis when they 're older .
22 All children will tend to suffer from separation from their parents , siblings and familiar surroundings .
23 McManaman made it three on 61 minutes … the County Ground faithful started to suffer from shellshock … the Town defence looked battle weary and beaten and surely would have stopped Ronie Whelan from scoring on a better day …
24 Babies of working class mothers are more likely to suffer from illness than middle-class babies for a variety of reasons : the mother 's health and style of living , particularly whether she smokes heavily ; the mother 's diet ; the mother 's type of employment during the late stages of pregnancy ; housing conditions , particularly heating ; the use of ante-natal clinics by the mother during pregnancy .
25 The main reason why the long-run Phillips curve may have a negative slope is that workers may continue to suffer from money illusion in the long-run and so be prepared to accept money wage increases which fall short of the actual inflation rate .
26 Species likely to suffer from development include brent geese , dunlins , redshanks and ringed plovers , among the birds , as well as fish such as golden mullet , wild salmon and sea trout .
27 Mr Kluge also appears to suffer from anglophilia .
28 Unfortunately Nut began to suffer from vertigo so Re provided pillars to hold her up and instructed Shu , the air , to stand between her and the earth .
29 There are two types of pub rock occasions : those , like the one described above , where the band is likely to suffer from agrophobia ; and those where the pub is so crowded , death through asphixiation seems to be the only way to get out .
30 Throughout 1990/91 Corsica continued to suffer from unrest , selective assassinations and divisions within Corsican nationalist groups [ see pp. 37686 ; 37967-68 ] .
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