Example sentences of "to learn of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had things to ask , things to learn of his father , things to tell him . |
| 2 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 3 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 4 | It would be surprising to those who witnessed Arazi 's incredible run through the field to win the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile in November to learn of any decline . |
| 5 | ‘ Through Highlander 's programs , many people have been encouraged to find beauty and pride in their own ways , to speak their own language without humiliation , and to learn of their own power to accomplish self-defined goals through social movements built from the bottom up . ’ |
| 6 | We are very concerned to learn of any shortfall in standards and this is why we want to hear from you if you encounter any problems . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 8 | However , I was alarmed to learn of the cost of these gracious creatures — about £10,000 each . |
| 9 | I am glad to learn of an initiative recently taken by the North West Region of the RIBA , which invited officers of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Order of Architects to visit it in Knutsford . |
| 10 | To be sure , we have all moved on since films directed by Hitchcock were unravelled in the search for strands of ‘ Catholic guilt ’ , but equally I still teach gay students who find it genuinely empowering to learn of the homosexuality of a cultural figure as one contributing factor to the work that he/she produced . |
| 11 | There was no sense of obligation to society , or even to learn of the necessities of life . ’ |
| 12 | She was never to learn of his plans as he sailed for New York the next day and never returned . |
| 13 | Orientation is concerned with enabling the user to learn of the existence of computer-based information retrieval and the services available ( what is available , where the searching can be carried out and how a search is carried out ) . |
| 14 | It was no surprise , therefore , to learn of the alarm in the colonies of homosexuals , who are by far the largest group affected , in New York , San Francisco and Los Angeles . |
| 15 | We have been involved in research of a very similar nature for some time , and although we are not publishing in such august journals as The Phyrologist you may be interested to learn of our most recent advance . |
| 16 | Halley and his successors at the Royal Greenwich Observatory would surely have been fascinated to learn of the unexpected uses to which astronomers of the late 20th century would put their solar observations . |
| 17 | It did not , however , take long for the French press to learn of the Academy 's blunder . |
| 18 | Smith was as surprised as anyone to learn of the marriage problems . |
| 19 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 20 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 21 | They were concerned to learn of conditions in the town and well pleased to hear that the Earl Patrick was now Keeper of the royal castle of Berwick . |
| 22 | ‘ And now , ’ he said , ‘ you are rested and fed and — how do you English say ? — watered , so it is time to learn of each other . ’ |
| 23 | The Vobster Line is very much in its infancy and although not yet ready for passenger carrying , will nevertheless be of interest to those wishing to see what has been achieved to date and to learn of the plans for the future . |
| 24 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , writing in both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph , says that he was ‘ stunned ’ to learn of Rigoberta Menchu 's success . |
| 25 | There is nowhere to run to … it is your first night , Englishman , you have to learn of a new world , you have to be patient if it is to give up to you its secrets . |
| 26 | The woman whom he paid for her favours so as to learn of that enchantment that could fuddle men and women ? |
| 27 | The area office plays a prominent part in what a field officer is able to learn of the job . |
| 28 | Finally , readers should return to the obituary section , another resting place for anecdote , to learn of the death of Kit Ounsted , a dedicated researcher , who ‘ saw developmental medicine as a science of biography . ’ |
| 29 | Only a few days after the conclusion of the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , held for the most part in Spain , itself a highly symbolic act of political and cultural allegiance to the Republican cause , Nizan was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic and unforeseen death of Gerda Taro , a young female photographer working for Ce Soir at the battle front near Brunete . |
| 30 | Even before Karl von Frisch 's well-known studies on bee orientation and his interpretation of the waggle dance in the 1910s and 1920s , students of bee behaviour , from fable-writers and apiary-keepers to entomologists , had marvelled at the skills , apparent intelligence and capacity to learn of the bees , which seemed very far from being rigidly programmed robots . |