Example sentences of "stay [adv prt] as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 MICK O'Dwyer will stay on as Kildare boss despite their Leinster final humiliation .
2 ASK founder Sandy Kurtzig stays on as chairman .
3 MILLIONAIRE Alan Sugar will be staying on as chairman following the defeat of his buy-out plan .
4 Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being .
5 It is believed that Knighton has also had talks with Midani , at which he offered him control of the club , with Knighton himself staying on as vice-chairman .
6 Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’
7 If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ .
8 A general election was called for May and Chandra Shekhar was asked to stay on as caretaker Prime Minister .
9 Samuel strongly advised that MacDonald should be persuaded to stay on as head of the existing government or some " reconstituted " Labour Cabinet or , failing these alternatives , of a National government made up of members of the three parties ; the necessary but unpalatable economies affecting the working class could best be imposed by a Labour government .
10 Dr Cunningham said : ‘ The important thing is for Neil to stay on as leader of the party and build on the gains we have made in this election . ’
11 She was given extended leave from the show by bosses at Grundy , who were already losing the battle to persuade her to stay on as Charlene .
12 Dean Pollard was continued in his post , Mr. Chaplin remained master , and his wife stayed on as matron and superintendent-nurse .
13 Detlev Rohwedder created the vacancy when he stayed on as head of the Treuhandanstalt , the state agency dealing with the privatisation of east German businesses .
14 In 1932 , the growth of both Electricity and Transport Departments was such that a new Transport Manager was appointed , while Charles Furness stayed on as Borough Electrical Engineer until his retirement in 1936 .
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