Example sentences of "to learn about " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN JANUARY 1988 a small group of 50 would-be volunteers met in the Ealing YMCA to learn about AIDS . |
| 2 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 3 | The first-years , after a first term filled with the medieval period and a second with the Renaissance , were now going to learn about the Baroque . |
| 4 | Nathan was not too troubled by the error : ‘ He 'll have to learn about it soon , ’ he commented , perhaps even then aware of the grimmer realities behind his words for his family . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't wait until your third year to learn about careers in the City ’ , ran a flier pinned to the stall . |
| 6 | He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education . |
| 7 | This is country where it is easy to live off the land , or out of the rivers , and to learn about life . |
| 8 | I 'm sure she will be pleased to learn about the formation of the Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literature in French , which brings together a group of academics involved with the teaching of this literature at university level . |
| 9 | His first important commission , the mural for Morley College , meant starting from scratch , travelling to Italy to learn about the fresco . |
| 10 | And for those of you who want to learn about Picasso , try the library or go to a museum . |
| 11 | Confronted with a bronze picture , we can locate its image on the relevant computer screen and , having read its precise history , proceed to learn about tableware in general , the social system of Pompeii , and even the precise recipes of the time . |
| 12 | Several of the proposals were accepted but , in other cases , subject staff put forward arguments for a higher weighting This discussion gave faculty heads a chance to learn about the requirements of their colleagues and to justify their own weightings . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything is really a chemical , ’ he cried one day to a pupil who said they wanted to learn about something else . |
| 14 | It is difficult to summarise them , but , broadly , both they and the Cumberbatch survey confirm the public support for televising , suggest that interest waned slightly as novelty wore off , indicate that on some matters there is growing understanding of Parliament , but make plain that many people still have a lot to learn about MPs and their work and roles . |
| 15 | They argued , first , that pre-exposure to a context will reduce the extent to which a subject is likely to learn about it ( see Balaz , Capra , Kasprow , and Miller 1982 ) ; second , that presenting reinforcers ( shocks in this experiment ) in a context in which they had not previously occurred is functionally equivalent to transferring the animal to a physically different context . |
| 16 | The first suggestion implies that context pre-exposure should make subsequently acquired latent inhibition less likely to be context-specific — subjects need to be prepared to learn about the context if context-specificity is to occur . |
| 17 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 18 | The older boys attended a Rabbi 's school at Ealing to learn about the Jewish faith . |
| 19 | At one point , John decided that he wanted to learn about music , although in fact he newer acquired much technical knowledge of the subject , and could not read a score . |
| 20 | First he would have to learn about this place , learn about how things worked here before he might start with a few tentative enquiries . |
| 21 | But all managers have to negotiate at some time so it pays to learn about handling the process well . |
| 22 | For example , if you have decided that it is essential for your long term plan to learn about computers then every moment that you are not doing this activity is a wrong use of your time . |
| 23 | There are many ways to learn about old age from older people , ways which put them into the ‘ expert ’ role . |
| 24 | One of my excitements has been to learn about prayer and discipleship from Christians of other traditions . |
| 25 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 26 | A patient commencing insulin needs to be taught and to learn about the equipment , its care and storage , drawing up insulin , injection technique , sites to use and timing of injections . |
| 27 | Freed from having to try to learn about the intimate details of the businesses they are serving , librarians and information scientists can then direct their energies to trying to improve the general accessibility and availability of publicly available information of relevance to business activity . |
| 28 | Controlling the world to learn about causes |
| 29 | One of the burning questions as I slowly began to learn about the disease , was how widespread was it within me ? |
| 30 | It was here , at the BCHC that I first began to hear the dictionary of cancer , to see the effect of the disease and to learn about it in any useful and positive way . |