Example sentences of "[modal v] have learned " in BNC.

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1 Long before going solo the student should have learned the mnemonic by heart .
2 ‘ I should have learned by now never to rely on anybody . ’
3 Here we consider the economics of the project — perhaps the most important of the arguments that will be aired at the Inquiry — and the lessons that we should have learned from the world 's most serious civil reactor accident so far , that at Three Mile Island .
4 It depends what I feel like playing , because I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago !
5 I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago !
6 Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity .
7 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 ’ .
8 Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil .
9 you think I should have learned ( and perhaps did )
10 — He should have learned by now .
11 She should have learned her lesson by now .
12 It was one of those not very funny ironies I should have learned to accept by now .
13 Each chapter begins with a summary of its contents and ends with a review of what the reader should have learned from it .
14 You should have learned reading and writing , then you would n't make life a misery for the likes of us . ’
15 Although pupils will transfer with a variety of experiences they should have learned a core of prescribed knowledge .
16 She should have learned long ago not to take him seriously .
17 Proportion is all , as you should have learned in your craft , and excess , as in this case , is so often unnecessary . ’
18 You should have learned it .
19 Rodrigo must have learned a great deal from these intelligent , cultured people .
20 It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school .
21 This morning he followed ‘ Hi ’ with ‘ How 's life treats you ? , ’ so I thought he must have learned more English while I was away .
22 He now sounded as though he were beginning a lecture and I thought he must have learned that intonation from his tutors .
23 Like any good piece of natural theology , it also contained a lot of popular science ; and many people must have learned about the laws of thermodynamics from reading this introduction to them .
24 The rats must have learned the maze earlier and were demonstrating latent learning .
25 Five years with them and he must have learned an awful lot .
26 The patience and persistence which you must have learned as a fisherman would result in pulling us through .
27 But however long or short it was , Nicodemus certainly must have learned a , a tremendous amount as he listened to Jesus .
28 At least they might have learned something about attitude , which John McEnroe believes to be the root cause of Britain 's tennis predicament .
29 He might have learned a thing or two from twin brothers Walter and Theo who began , successfully , to take what they wanted in 1944 when they were eighteen .
30 Hunting for diamonds on a fastflowing river may be a rewarding pastime , but he might have learned to swim first !
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