Example sentences of "we learn [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet more astonishingly we learn that the word of God is made flesh and is one of us and that God himself is tortured to death and that through our suffering and death we can share in God 's suffering and thereby , in some utterly incomprehensible way , in his life . |
| 2 | And then we learn that the wife is a townswoman , a merchant 's wife , not a fine lady , and the stage is set for the fabliau drama by the absence of the husband on business . |
| 3 | To take one last example , when we read in Canto 101 ( and many other places ) about ‘ Mont Ségur ’ , the gloss we need is in the Michelin Guide to the pyrenees , where we learn that the Château of Mont Ségur saw the last stand of the Cathars or Albigensians , another heretical movement of the Middle Ages which is mysteriously connected with the quest of the grail . |
| 4 | In modern-day America , stories of collective entrepreneurship typically appear in the sports pages of the daily newspaper ; time after time , in accounts of winning efforts we learn that the team with the best blend of talent won — the team that emphasized teamwork — not the team with the best individual athlete . |
| 5 | From Boswell we learn that the Laird of Macleod was in debt to the tune of forty thousand pounds , and this Hebridean Micawber had an income of only thirteen hundred a year . |