Example sentences of "stay on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 3 | It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates . |
| 4 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 5 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 6 | Of course , those who squeezed him out were at pains to say Young was staying on as Young Group chief executive . |
| 7 | He went on : ’ when comparing Kent with 13 southern counties it had the lowest number of school leavers with five GCSEs grade A to C the second highest number of pupils leaving with no qualifications , the 12th lowest number staying on at 16 . ’ |
| 8 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |
| 9 | " Fancy staying on at three-thirty and helping me paint ? " |
| 10 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 11 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 12 | The Secretary of State for Employment and the Secretary of State for Education and Science , in an interesting double act at the Dispatch Box , sought to challenge my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield about Britain 's position in the league tables of numbers staying on between 16 and 19 . |
| 13 | More young people are staying on after 16 than ever before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But suddenly she was filled with another fear — about the wisdom of staying on in such close proximity with him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 18 | He recalled that he was overjoyed when he heard that Walter Luff was staying on until 1954 , thus providing him with the chance that he needed . |
| 19 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |
| 21 | Compared to our competitors , not enough of our young people stay on to post-compulsory education . |
| 22 | We have an extremely flexible timetable in S6 and we are always pleased to welcome pupils from other schools who join the 130 or more Heriot pupils who stay on to Sixth Year . |
| 23 | They 're waterproof , too , and stay on through vigorous activity . |
| 24 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 25 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 26 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 27 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 28 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 29 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 30 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |