Example sentences of "had suffered a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 2 | Levi , whose support base was within the large Sephardi community , had suffered a humiliating defeat in internal Likud elections held in early March , and accused the Prime Minister and Likud leader , Itzhak Shamir , of promoting ethnic discrimination against his community . |
| 3 | Even the previous November there had been isolated rumours that he had suffered a nervous breakdown . |
| 4 | And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot . |
| 5 | Citing sources in Yangon , the report claimed that Saw Maung had suffered a nervous breakdown in late November and that his behaviour had subsequently become " increasingly irrational and incoherent … with bouts of depression when he displays verbal and physical aggression " . |
| 6 | Christopher Taylor blinked back tears as he described how he had arrived at the hospital to find his son , seven-week-old Liam , had suffered a mysterious collapse . |
| 7 | Her mother had suffered a rare disorder which causes parents to make their children ill to get medical attention . |
| 8 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 9 | She also suffered from Parkinson 's Disease , irritable bowel syndrome and had suffered a slight stroke . |
| 10 | Earlier in the month Aquino had suffered a political setback when the Supreme Court on June 5 quashed charges of " rebellion complexed with murder " against Senator Juan Ponce Enrile and 22 other alleged participants in the December 1989 coup attempt . |
| 11 | What Mrs Ferrari did n't know , was that another baby had suffered a fractured skull while he was being looked after by Withers . |
| 12 | Perhaps she had suffered a small fit after all , or could it have been a touch of fever ? |
| 13 | And they had suffered a great loss when John Crabb , their notable leader , had been captured by the English on his return from his ill-fated venture to the Tay and Perth in support of Mar . |
| 14 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 15 | I was therefore instructed to discontinue the action on the basis that each side paid their own costs , although the Guardian had suffered a continuous reverse in their attempts to maintain the right to press freedom and to maintain secrecy about their informant . |
| 16 | the plaintiff , a diabetic , had suffered a burning injury whilst welding . |
| 17 | In a sense Eva had suffered a triple bereavement ; the death of two members of her family in close proximity , and the loss of her beloved Africa with all its warmth and colour . |
| 18 | He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him . |
| 19 | Police said she had suffered a terrible blow to the back of her head but was still alive when she was tossed into the water . |
| 20 | What sort of a person did it make Alain when he would behave like that because he had suffered a frustrating evening . |
| 21 | In recent months it had been widely reported that Saw Maung , who had chaired the SLORC since the army assumed power in 1998 , had suffered a mental breakdown . |
| 22 | ‘ In coming to his friend 's assistance so soon after he himself had suffered a serious heart attack he put his health at risk . ’ |
| 23 | It found that at 5 July , 1991 , the Western Isles authority had suffered a total loss of more than £24 million because of the fall of the bank . |
| 24 | It was held that Butterworth had suffered a total failure of consideration and was entitled therefore to the return from Kingsway Motors of his purchase price . |
| 25 | However , neither Kingsway Motors nor C nor B had suffered a total failure of consideration because their title had been fed . |
| 26 | Twenty days before Kennedy 's assassination his South Vietnamese satrap , President Diem had suffered a similar fate , with the collusion of the US authorities . |
| 27 | Earlier an El Al spokesman had refused to confirm reports that the aircraft which crashed had suffered a mid-air engine fire in late July . |
| 28 | However , he has complained that he was misrepresented by newspapers , and had suffered a fierce backlash . |
| 29 | He had been made to work ridiculously hard , and had suffered a constant stream of abuse when he failed to come up to scratch . |
| 30 | Villa had suffered a double injury blow before manager Ron Atkinson had settled in the dugout . |