Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to stay at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 2 | Professor Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson , of Manchester University , say it is vital for Britain 's economic future that more young people are persuaded to stay at school after 16 . |
| 3 | We discovered that he had been invited to stay at Wuthering Heights , by Hindley . |
| 4 | Arrangement can be made to stay at the Hotel at a greatly reduced price . |
| 5 | The corrective operation could not be undertaken until the child was three months old , and the doctor recommended that the child should be allowed to stay at the hospital until she was due for surgery , her condition producing difficulties in feeding . |
| 6 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 7 | We were told to stay at 10,000 feet — unrealistic for our Tri-Pacer — because the terrorists in the mountains might shoot at us . |
| 8 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 9 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 10 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 11 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 12 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 13 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 14 | And Alwyn has been paid to stay at home on Friday |
| 15 | He 's , he 's been paid to stay at home on a Friday |
| 16 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 17 | Cranmer was summoned to the royal presence and , though protesting his incompetence , was told to stay at the house of the Earl of Wiltshire , Anne Boleyn 's father . |
| 18 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 19 | Diana was invited to stay at their house in Petworth , West Sussex by their son Philip . |
| 20 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |
| 21 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 22 | The pompous Bowyer was ordered to stay at the manor but Sir Edmund waved us over . |