Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] to learn that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 2 | The Lippitts are surprised to learn that they are rich . |
| 3 | The Australians magnificently took revenge for their defeat last time when they had the bronze medal taken away from them , but England were happy to learn that they have a last-eight encounter today with Sweden . |
| 4 | Now clearly we can teach a child a rule if the child is willing to learn that if we put the two plus one in brackets then that means add them together first and then multiply . |
| 5 | Woodie was surprised to learn that there were any plates on Dreadnought . |
| 6 | Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring . |
| 7 | A month earlier the government was startled to learn that the Soviet defence minister , Marshal Dmitri Yazov , had turned up to inspect his troops in the east without telling the Germans . |
| 8 | Taking a walk on the Malvern Hills the children were surprised to learn that the next highest point on the horizon is the Russian mountain range , the Urals . |
| 9 | Booksellers will no doubt be relieved to learn that there 'll be no attempt at direct selling . |
| 10 | ‘ The Welsh Highland ( 1964 ) company is sorry to learn that the Ffestiniog Trust has rejected the very reasonable compromise offered to them by Gwynedd County Council , based on the suggestion in our brochure : The Way Forward . |
| 11 | ‘ A Bit of a Smash in Madras ’ , told in the words of an English employee of a company in the east , had all the best qualities of his prose : pace , realism ( Connolly was amazed to learn that he had never been in India ) , exact rendering of the spoken word . |
| 12 | Colleagues were delighted to learn that one of the Library 's senior staff , Miss Margaret Wilkes , Head of the Map Library , had received the Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society at an award ceremony on 5 October . |
| 13 | Despite publicity about their strict code of conduct , it was obvious that the rules had been broken because when the time came for the first troupe to go home , John was astounded to learn that eight out of the sixteen had married during the run and intended to remain behind and every one of the other eight was engaged . |
| 14 | But in December , Shaughnessy was astonished to learn that the subpoenas he had served on seven Federal agencies ( the DIA had been added to the others in March 1990 ) had been quashed without further hearing of argument . |