Example sentences of "learning [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Fabian is studying at secondary school for the abitur or school-leaving certificate ( equivalent to English A-levels ) , and also learning to be a construction worker .
2 Also , learning to be obsessive about detail .
3 You would too , if you were learning to be a DJ , or perhaps being coached in your favourite sport !
4 At any stage in life , we can improve our relationship with others by learning to be aware and to communicate .
5 Depth is acquired partly by learning to be reflective , taking time to reflect on the world around us and how we spend our lives .
6 Thousands of boys and young men , pale , narrow-chested , hunched-up , miserable specimens , smoking endless cigarettes , numbers of them betting , all of them learning to be hysterical as they groan and cheer in panic unison with their neighbours — the worst sound of all being the hysterical scream of laughter that greets any little trip or fall of a player .
7 Learning to be old
8 The first two categories represent the initial stages of involvement in learning to be a nurse .
9 Learning to be responsible
10 By learning to be ‘ open channels ’ — spending money , giving it away , passing on old clothes , furniture and bric-a-brac we no longer use — we encourage more to flow into our lives .
11 Learning to be content is the great secret of life , for every aspect of our jobs , however boring , can become fulfilling when we work at them wholeheartedly , as serving Christ .
12 Part of looking after your health is learning to be good to your body .
13 learning to be black
14 Then , there 's a process of learning to be black .
15 If one is prepared to act on this view of the need for more extensive training and greater access to deaf people , there are still other series of factors concerning language learning to be accounted for .
16 Of course learning to be guided by your instincts takes time .
17 She works hard to understand issues which confuse her and is learning to be patient with herself when , as she puts it , her brain ‘ gets stuck ’ .
18 What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport .
19 Also , some learning theorists ( other than behaviourists ) allow learning to be an interactive process , involving these internal events .
20 I 'm still learning to be a musician , there is masses for me to learn .
21 Learning to be reasonably at home with this formal and stylized ‘ language of books ’ — primarily as readers but also as writers — is undoubtedly one of the major learning tasks for children in the upper primary and early secondary school .
22 The Mathematics and Science Working Parties which have already reported require programmes of learning to be based explicitly on practical experience so that students develop a deeper understanding of the technological society in which they will live and work .
23 Students learning to be future professional designers will need to think about designing with everyone 's needs in mind .
24 The perceptions that most science students had of the arts , then , are grounded within a discourse which regards education as primarily functional , believes learning to be concerned with the acquisition of knowledge , and views the relationship between different types of knowledge as hierarchical .
25 For women , education in the men 's system has meant learning a lot about men in male ways and a lot about learning to be the women men have determined we should be .
26 After all Aunt Emily 's generosity , it seemed churlish to point out how stifled she was , cooped up in the warm , soft , comfortable house , fed like a lapdog and learning to be a lady .
27 This is Josh Gifford exclusive another one of these trainers learning to be a journalist .
28 Now I 've found out that he is n't my father I 'm learning to be free for the first time in my life , do you understand ? ’
29 Still … those recent moments along the track had been wonderful — while they 'd lasted — and she was learning to be thankful for small moments of joy .
30 Here again , higher primates in captivity seem to be motivated in the right general direction , but appear to need some element of learning to be able to focus the instinctual drive towards its goal .
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