Sentence examples for was learnt from inspiring English sources

When comparing the maximum PER recorded for an odorant during acquisition trials with the PER recorded when the odorant was learnt as part of the complex mixture, we found that, for example, butanal was learnt very well on its own (96.0% PER), but only 21.4% of bees responded to butanal, when it was learnt as part of mixture 2 (Table 4).

Linguistic changes identified by the research so far include differences in use of pronouns and multiple negatives, based on whether Welsh was learnt in the home or at school — with English sentence constructions filtering into the language more when Welsh is learnt at school vs at home.

Their football and their cunning was learnt on some unforgiving streets.

Funnily enough, the lesson was learnt when Wales defeated Ireland in the quarter-finals of the 2011 World Cup.

Hopefully a lesson was learnt, namely hitting the seam is important but it is not as important as pitching the ball consistently on a good length.

A salutory lesson was learnt last year when a capacity audience sat down one afternoon to watch a concert performance of the sell-out Edinburgh show, Jerry Springer: the Opera.

Responsibility for the chaos rests jointly on Jordanian insufficiency in face of the overwhelming enthusiasm, and Franciscan pettiness, which insisted on keeping control of the arrangements in the Basilica in the order's shaky hands; but the lesson was learnt.

Mr Johnson believes the geometrical knowledge eventually used to plan, pre-fabricate and erect Stonehenge was learnt empirically hundreds of years earlier through the construction of much simpler monuments.

His father treated him the same way, I know that it was learnt.

In terms of WHERE, participants reported that the art of nurse-family communication was learnt on the job.

For example, an odorant that was learnt poorly on its own appeared to be an active component after being learned in a complex mixture [6].