Example sentences of "[verb] to stay [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 2 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 3 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 4 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 5 | However , Mr Lamont wants to stay at the Treasury to oversee the long-awaited economic upturn . |
| 6 | and then if he ever wants to stay over a friends |
| 7 | It could be a good indicator for the Deep South where Bush must make an impact if he wants to stay in the race . |
| 8 | They would like to keep in touch with each other and with their older sister who wants to stay in the children 's home . |
| 9 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 10 | If he wants to stay in the race he may have no alternative but to abandon his original proposal and announce a rival offer on improved terms . |
| 11 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I like it here and I want to stay for a while . ’ |
| 13 | Everton offered better personal terms but hit man Harford settled on Chelsea because he and his family want to stay in the South . |
| 14 | and if you ca n't stay in the east , you want to stay in the east of the city ? |
| 15 | ‘ I like the freedom of being able to decide , tonight for example , whether I want to stay in the flat or whether I want to go down to Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | Without exception every single one of them in that room , and I invited every single one from the whole of my constituency , said , we want to stay in the National Health Service . |
| 17 | Fuel is needed if you want to stay in the air because the Epical engines consume fuel at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's so , but it should n't be too much trouble for you if you really want to stay in the area . ’ |
| 19 | If you want to stay in the village on a low income there is nowhere to rent or buy . |
| 20 | We want to stay in the area as we both like walking , especially in the Dales , ’ said Audrey . |
| 21 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 22 | Police believe she will need to stay at the hospital for at least another week . |
| 23 | I do need to stay on the fairway , though . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do we really need to stay for the rest ? ’ he asked her as they sipped coffee in the tiny foyer , ‘ I mean , it 's not like there 's any mystery about it . |
| 25 | Patients still need to recuperate but do not need to stay in an acute hospital to do so . |
| 26 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 27 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 28 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 29 | If there are no relatives or friends , staff should be organised to stay with the dying person . |
| 30 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |