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

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1 Of course we also have to recognize that in the kind of world in which we live , it is possible to have inward peace and security and yet to suffer from various problems with our bodies .
2 Where you are likely to suffer from regular assaults , it may well be worth considering cladding part or all of you greenhouse with polycarbonate sheeting .
3 All horses are likely to suffer from internal parasites or ‘ worms ’ and should be regularly treated for them .
4 Pramual said that he would not allow " millions " of borrowers , including small businesses and individuals with home loans , to suffer from higher interest rates .
5 However , despite these encouraging signs , LASMO — in common with all companies in the oil industry — continues to suffer from low oil prices and the world recession , and as a result has announced economies to help safeguard its long-term position .
6 Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour .
7 Similarly , desecrated shrines or graves are doomed to suffer from continued hauntings , and the ghosts of murdered lovers or deserted children assail the living in their quest for post-mortem justice .
8 If you are to suffer from amphibian poisoning , it is you who must do the biting .
9 Why should we have to suffer from such incompetence ? — .
10 A large majority of secondary school pupils have been shown to suffer from such misconceptions .
11 ‘ Unless Mr Reid has demanded that the Government remove its financial straightjacket , BR will continue to suffer from poor morale , chronic overcrowding and growing passenger concerns about safety and reliability . ’
12 And I must add here that my own skin also became smoother and whilst at times I used to suffer from dry skin , strangely I no longer do .
13 A number of independent research studies carried out in California , Massachusetts , Hawaii and London have shown that moderate drinkers have a lower mortality rate than total abstainers and are less likely to suffer from coronary disease .
14 An individual 's diet may vary for many reasons and while starvation is unusual in the Western world because of the availability of food , it is still possible for people in the West to suffer from inadequate nutrition .
15 In a paper published this month in Nature by Dr Shigekazu Nagata from the Osaka Bioscience Institute in Japan , it was found that a strain of mice long known to suffer from auto-immune disease lacks a working version of a gene called Fas .
16 When a birth does occur , there is an above average number of Caesarean sections , multiple births , congenital ( at birth ) problems in babies , and more women seem to suffer from postnatal depression .
17 The main findings of this study can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) patients with adenomatous colorectal polyps generally showed a significant increase in the cytoproliferative activity of the most superficial portions of the rectal crypts compared with controls ; ( b ) this difference was primarily the result of an appreciable upward shift of replicating cells in patients destined to suffer from recurrent polyps ; the proliferative pattern of patients whose polyps did not recur after initial polypectomies were essentially similar to those of controls ; ( c ) the proliferative pattern of flat rectal mucosa did not change appreciably during the follow up period regardless of whether polyps recurred or not .
18 If ethnic monitoring recommendations are anything to go by , both in schools and elsewhere , official information on the fate of pupils from the minorities will continue to suffer from this lacuna .
19 As yet the only people to suffer from this setback are the investors .
20 Older women are also more likely than older men to suffer from psychological problems such as loneliness and anxiety and to have lower levels of morale or life satisfaction ( Atchley , 1976 ; Abrams , 1978 ) .
21 He was either very lucky or very skilful , because although his techniques were primitive no one ever seemed to suffer from any complications .
22 If you have made a choice and are happy with it , then it is no one else 's concern and you should not allow yourself to suffer from externally-imposed guilt .
23 Being in a direct line between the coast and London , Croydon and Penge were early among the places to suffer from heavy bomb damage .
24 He continued to suffer from periodic chest infections throughout his early manhood ; but the earliest symptoms of his terminal illness appeared in 1784 , when he was attacked by violent colic , vomiting , and rheumatic fever , resulting from a virus caught during an epidemic .
25 ‘ I 'd got into the situation where I had a darkroom at home , the use of a studio in the West End and I was starting to suffer from severe guilt for not making full use of all these resources at my disposal .
26 Mr Allsopp was known to suffer from senile dementia and was often seen walking in the area .
27 You can imagine my annoyance , then , that a ) there are no fiscal financial incentives whatsoever to encourage more people to cycle , and b ) that my health has to suffer from car-induced pollution although I do not contribute to it myself .
28 In general , Labour seemed relatively to suffer from high poll tax levels even where it was not in control of the council .
29 Dawn , 30 , who suffered from blocked tubes , and John , 32 , had been trying for a baby for nine years .
30 For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids .
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