1.   An illegitimate birth in the degrading surroundings of the workhouse was about the deepest stigma that anyone could bear at the start of life.

2.   Its aim, according to Vice-President Al Gore, is to ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy.

3.   The similarities were more than I could bear at the time.

4.   The plant produces hanging sprays of inflorescence, borne at the ends of young flowering stems.