Example sentences of "to learn by [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Imagine the indignity of trying to learn by heart , over breakfast , a set of opinions , which you will later claim as your own , on such subjects as your party 's policy on the amateur status of Rugby Union , female circumcision and devolution of power to the regional arts boards … and all morning your party agent sending you urgent messages that your whole campaign 's falling apart .
2 This example is pretty hard to learn by heart and the fingering is n't easy either , so be patient , and take it slowly .
3 ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon .
4 Having your own original opinions was clearly a major flaw in a mirza and , just to be on the safe side , the Mirza Nama offers a few acceptable opinions for the young gentleman to learn by heart and adopt as his own .
5 So satellite buffs have to learn by trial and error .
6 Some had to learn by trial and error .
7 The program mediates between the learner and the microcomputer allowing the pupil to learn by trial and error .
8 The practitioners are still largely in the state of new recruits to any government 's army , who will be required at an early stage to learn by rote the names of the standard machine-gun issue .
9 She set up everywhere she went a series of dependency relationships , attaching herself either to the compassionate , the powerful , or the merely expedient , when her lack of judgement often led her to be rejected , robbed or ill-treated , but — again a psychotic trait — she seemed unable to learn by experience .
10 Not only did children have to learn by association and reinforcement , their production had to be shaped to the correct response .
11 This leads to the general observation , that if the aim of resource-based learning or any other teaching-learning mode is to produce the independent autonomous learner , then the tendency of closely structured sequences or units of work must be towards eventual loosening of structure , the emergence of open-ended situations where the student can exercise his choice and decision-making in a meaningful way , and " learn how to learn by learning " .
  Next page