Example sentences of "have learnt from " in BNC.

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1 The party has learnt from past mistakes .
2 There is no sign whatever that Labour has learnt from errors of the past .
3 A post-test will disclose what the student has learnt from the programme , and whether the objectives have been met .
4 Here the Athenian artist ( the face is directly in the tradition of the calf-bearer ) has learnt from beyond the Aegean to realise the body under the clothes but has rejected the elaborate schema .
5 The important thing is whether or not either party has learnt from past errors . ’
6 All of which I 'd learnt from Churchill , of course .
7 In the end I threw my yoghurt pot full of glue at her and said the ‘ f ’ word I 'd learnt from Auntie .
8 You have a much better chance of success next time because you will have learnt from your previous experience .
9 This summer , I visited the Art Materials Exhibition and , to my surprise , I learnt more from watching paintings in action than I could ever have learnt from the so-called Teach Yourself books .
10 But whatever else Anselm may have learnt from Hugh of Lyons , he did not learn to accept this extension of papal sovereignty at the expense of the church for which he was himself responsible .
11 Locke could have learnt from his Carolina experience that the old English approach to property , based on the tenants ' allegiance to the landlord , was no longer fully accepted and certainly was not suitable for export to a new territory .
12 He will have learnt from Iacocca , pursued excellence , been up the organization and spent one minute as a manager .
13 The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference .
14 I feel very happy about my form and technique , very content , ’ he adds , having learnt from a poor tour of Australia the winter before last to adapt his technique and not commit himself too soon to a stroke .
15 Pop star hysteria is not their style , having learnt from the riotous assembly and frayed tempers of their recent midnight signing session at London 's Tower Records .
16 Hendrique , having learnt from his mistake , concentrated on the indicator instead of on Graham 's face .
17 This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years .
18 However , having learnt from the past , I determined to be detached , controlled , to choose with my head rather than my heart .
19 This master , who seems to have learnt from the Pistoxenos Painter , is clearly much influenced by the great painting of his time but always remains faithful to the single base-line , feeling it perhaps a proper convention for vase-decoration .
20 In some important ways , the shock of mid-1989 was containable because Hong Kong had learnt from past crises .
21 Hobbes had learnt from his scientific hero , Harvey , that one of the motions in the body is that of the blood circulated by the heart .
22 She was invaluable for remembering original routines , which she had learnt from old John Tiller himself .
23 She came to value what she had learnt from her difficult childhood , and to let go of the past .
24 He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’
25 Chairman Roger Bryan said that the Museum had learnt from the sad example of others that the softly , softly approach was best .
26 This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat .
27 Being neighbours of the Celts ( Valerius Maximus explains ) , the Massaliotes had learnt from them to believe in the immortality of the soul , a belief not to be despised , as it was shared by the Pythagoreans : " dicerem stultos , nisi idem bracati sensissent quod palliatus Pythagoras credidit " ( 2.6.10 ) .
28 The story was confirmation of all that Eva had learnt from her parents .
29 Athelstan remembered what he had learnt from his study of the Index of Saints but decided not to confide in Sir John .
30 I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will .
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