Example sentences of "stay [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happens , the individuals may disperse or they may stay together in new groupings . |
| 2 | Hopefully this time the bolts will stay in for good , as chopping and replacing them ( something which now seems an annual event ) is causing untold damage to this superb pitch . |
| 3 | Of course , those who squeezed him out were at pains to say Young was staying on as Young Group chief executive . |
| 4 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 5 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 6 | Latest figures also show that families are staying longer in so-called ‘ temporary ’ accommodation . |
| 7 | As we have seen , children staying longer in formal education appear to acquire more political knowledge than those leaving school earlier . |
| 8 | The top line on the picture is even more speculative , but informed by the analysis of 32-year-olds discussed above , it traces what the person would earn with identical characteristics other than that of being male and staying throughout in full-time employment . |
| 9 | Even Jenny — clever , perceptive Jenny — had been impressed by Damian Flint , had found him apparently irresistible , staying up till early morning with him , discussing love ; and how that galled her , how it angered her . |
| 10 | APRIL 1992 IT 'S four months ago and Johnny , working hard keep up his ‘ financial adviser ’ image , stays out of touching distance as he and Fergie walk out in public during their visit to Phuket in Thailand |
| 11 | Mary had been looked after by a nanny until the age of seven and had then stayed intermittently with elderly relatives . |
| 12 | Ali and Mohammed discussed the possibility of staying there with subsequent trekking parties . |
| 13 | He would have stayed there until dark again , but Ratagan and Bicker came out to find him . |
| 14 | Gary is qualified to criticise ; following in the footsteps , as it were , of Douglas Bader , one of his earlier flights involved an embarrassing thud followed by a wheelchair , which Gary says is an advantage in many ways because now he can stay aloft at great heights without getting cold feet . |
| 15 | Compared to our competitors , not enough of our young people stay on to post-compulsory education . |
| 16 | They 're waterproof , too , and stay on through vigorous activity . |
| 17 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 18 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 19 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 20 | But those who stay only for short periods of weeks or months are much more likely to be suffering from serious mental disorder than long term residents . |
| 21 | Usually , I stay away from other Dreamers . |
| 22 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 23 | Within five years , half of all non-custodial parents ( usually fathers ) have remarried , creating some full-time and some part-time step-families where children visit or stay overnight for short periods ( Leete and Anthony , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | Ruth heartily wished that he could stay there for good . |
| 25 | Several authorities increased their maintenance allowances , paid to the children of very poor families to stay on at secondary school , –5 to compensate for the failure to raise the school leaving age to fifteen , scheduled to take place in 1939 , but held back by the war . |
| 26 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 27 | The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) . |
| 28 | You must promise to stay away from other people . ’ |
| 29 | She had not promised to stay away from other people . |
| 30 | I 've been advised to stay away from political jokes ( they too often get elected ) but in the UK , party workers say : ‘ If you put a monkey up for Parliament here and stuck a red ( or blue ) rosette on him , he 'd get in . ’ |