Example sentences of "training to [be] " in BNC.

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1 He was training to be a teacher when the Khmer Rouge took over .
2 Hannah is eighteen and lives on her own in a bedsit in Staffordshire , where she is training to be a vet .
3 He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking .
4 Louise was what was known as an ‘ exchange student ’ ; at home in Nîmes she was training to be an English teacher and she was doing a year 's exchange as part of her course , teaching French conversation at the local grammar school .
5 One 's in Edinburgh ( a nursery nurse — definitely not my side of the family ! ) , and the other 's in London , training to be an actress ‘ carrying on where ma Mammy left off … . ’
6 Masha , 20 , is training to be a fashion model in St Petersburg .
7 Tim and Julie met 11 years ago in Bath where she was training to be a teacher and he was starting out as a trainee accountant .
8 About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so .
9 By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator .
10 In presenting learning tasks and information to pupils a flexible organisation is required and children need training to be as independent as possible when working without direct supervision .
11 Almost all experimental studies have shown in vivo training to be superior to the use of tape recorded instructions .
12 A major objective of the project is to explore how media education can benefit those training to be church ministers .
13 Mike , now training to be a chartered accountant , was one of the most efficient and respected organizers the London Road has ever seen .
14 She 's going to university , training to be physiotherapist .
15 The elite trainees may frequently enjoy higher prestige ( 'Our son Justin is training to be a doctor' sounds far more impressive than ‘ Our lad Jim 's a barrow-boy ’ ) .
16 I was talking to a man with a stammer who was training to be an estate agent when Gillian was brought across by the organiser .
17 She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer .
18 Now she 's training to be a teacher .
19 By then , Odette was training to be a nurse at a hospital in Chelmsford .
20 Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education .
21 He became an ever-present volunteer , had passed as a fireman and was training to be a driver .
22 This research pays particular attention to the nature of the history and the history teaching to which students training to be history teachers are introduced .
23 Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland .
24 ‘ You 're training to be a teacher , are n't you ? ’ she asked .
25 Debbie Scott ( 19 ) , who is now training to be a hairdresser , says her education suffered because of the emotional upset caused by the bullies .
26 Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides .
27 I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King .
28 He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd .
29 ‘ I am interested in journalism , ’ said Thomas , who is staying with the Kilcran family in Dale Road , Darlington , ‘ but I am training to be a teacher .
30 Another hoping to make Kenya is George Salmond , who is at Dundee College of Education , training to be a primary teacher .
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