Example sentences of "[verb] learn [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China has learned to be sceptical on that score , but on March 20th Mr Li was talking to the theoretically converted — the 2,700 delegates to the annual National People 's Congress in Beijing . |
| 2 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 3 | At 50 Jane Goodall looks fragile and sounds softhearted , but she has learnt to be tough . |
| 4 | Japan has few energy resources of its own and it has learnt to be frugal : energy prices are approximately twice those in Britain . |
| 5 | Certainly , by now , we should have learned to be cautious about simplified statements which attempt to outline the central features of ‘ the family in modern society ’ . |
| 6 | You 'll have to learn to be grateful just to bear my name … |
| 7 | He still wanted her body , there was no way he could disguise that , and she , well , she would have to learn to be content with whatever crumbs he was prepared to let fall from his table . |
| 8 | She might be proud , but she had learned to be provident ! |
| 9 | He had learned to be content . |
| 10 | Frankie had learned to be wary of that place . |
| 11 | Your mother had learned to be independent in Paris — her own woman . |
| 12 | The nomes had learned to be worried by things with flashing blue lights on top . |
| 13 | Wordsworth had to learn to be simple . |
| 14 | As a younger son he had learnt to be content with small advantages when greater ones were not to be had ; yet he had not lost the capacity for large designs or for rapid action when need arose . |
| 15 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |
| 16 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 17 | The perceptions that most science students had of the arts , then , are grounded within a discourse which regards education as primarily functional , believes learning to be concerned with the acquisition of knowledge , and views the relationship between different types of knowledge as hierarchical . |
| 18 | As regards time those involved in unification projects have learned to be patient and to think in decades rather than years . |
| 19 | But I think that to allow those two sort of issues to get too inseparable , as it were , to so that we simply regard ourselves as being in a position to issue directives about behaviour , which do n't acknowledge that these are young people who have to learn to be autonomous , then we get ourselves onto a hiding for nothing . |
| 20 | you have to learn to be patient . |
| 21 | But training officers have learnt to be philosophical about such mishaps : " Some stay , some do n't , " they say . |
| 22 | Many women have learnt to be wary and to offer trust slowly . |