Example sentences of "have suffered [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines .
2 These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself .
3 They have suffered wholesale slaughter for the sake of the ivory trade .
4 Although no official statistics exist , local doctors estimate that 90 per cent of the population of the town of Nikel have suffered serious damage to both nervous and respiratory systems .
5 Many of the large military enterprises which formed the backbone of the city 's economy have suffered serious reductions in income .
6 Two have suffered serious side-effects from the standard Parkinson 's treatment .
7 Students are undoubtedly a section of the population who have suffered substantial hardship as a result of Government-inspired measures .
8 Three tributaries of the Mekong River in north-eastern Thailand have suffered devastating pollution as a result of the leakage of molasses from a sugar mill silo .
9 They have suffered tremendous losses in income .
10 Millions of workers have been sacked from plantations and mines because of their companies ' losses ; farmers cultivating export crops on their own have suffered severe cuts in living standards .
11 SKINS WHICH HAVE SUFFERED SEVERE SUNBURN IN THE PAST , PARTICULARLY IN CHILDHOOD .
12 Over the years our members have suffered massive damage to their hearing .
13 Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion .
14 As a consequence some have suffered irreversible damage to their health .
15 It will also be widely welcomed by all who believe in self-determination for these proud people , who have suffered Chinese oppression for nearly 40 years .
16 For example , with the white population growing at less than I per cent per year between 1980 and 1986 , many white schools have suffered dramatic falls in enrolments .
17 The majority of people who had benefited by the use of regulation 72 have suffered some kind of physical and/or mental disability .
18 Inflation has taxed most Russians massively ; but whereas households have suffered these losses in full , Russia 's state-owned enterprises have , in effect , been bailed out by the central bank .
19 Since black people in the southern states have suffered more injustices at the hands of the law they tend to be less likely to hand out death sentences .
20 Widows and the long-term sick , for example , have suffered big losses in the breaking of the link between benefits and earnings from 1980 onwards .
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