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

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1 During the 1980s both the community and its schools suffered from the severe effects of deindustrialisation , which for the schools was compounded by an above average drop in pupil numbers caused by a fall in the birth rate .
2 In temporal terms , the Church suffered from the growing interest shown in ecclesiastical wealth by both pomeshchiks and the government .
3 The interior of the church suffered from the dead hand of the restorer between 1897 and 1907 , but it represents one of the most monumental examples of the Romanesque in Bohemia .
4 The children suffered from the usual ailments , and their remedies .
5 Sturge chairman David Coleridge said : ‘ Wise Speke 's performance in the first half year suffered from the depressed level of activity in the Stock Market as a result of political and economic uncertainty prior to the General Election .
6 The last period during which the country suffered from the combined effects of disastrous harvest and epidemic diseases was from 1723 to 1730 , particularly the later years .
7 The Company suffered from the industrial depression of 1931 and at a meeting of the directors in May , the following proposals were considered : —
8 Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself .
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