Example sentences of "stay on [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would I stay on at night to go over some sales figures ? |
| 2 | Secondary education is compulsory up to the age of 16 , and pupils can stay on at school for up to three years longer . |
| 3 | ‘ That you can stay on at Sleet as long as you like , but with the new owner , should he wish to take residence there . |
| 4 | You must stay on at Casa Sciorto , Caroline … ’ |
| 5 | Some will ‘ get the taste ’ of fresh water by moulting on freshwater lochs in Shetland , raising hopes yet again that this attractive duck will one day stay on to nest in Shetland . |
| 6 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 7 | In a mild winter where snow cover is not prolonged , chaffinch and brambling from the Scandinavian forests will stay on to forage round the crofts . |
| 8 | And make-up wo n't stay on without powder . |
| 9 | Similarly with Abdullah Muhammad : he had married Salha 's granddaughter ; another sister had married Salha 's grandson ; and yet another sister was mother of another of the girls who had stayed on at school . |
| 10 | The ‘ unsafe ’ driver is more likely than the ‘ safe ’ driver to be a non-manual worker and to have stayed on at school after the age of 16 . |
| 11 | A friend of many years ' standing has said that , ‘ Ifor would have loved to have stayed on at school . |
| 12 | Sandy was a few months younger than Wayne , but unlike Wayne she 'd stayed on at school . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I 'd stayed on at college . |
| 14 | Not only that , but a few pairs have stayed on to breed , and in certain areas half a dozen or more broods of young can be seen on the new grassland . |
| 15 | I 've stayed on to help but not once have you met me so much as half-way . |
| 16 | ASK founder Sandy Kurtzig stays on as chairman . |
| 17 | MILLIONAIRE Alan Sugar will be staying on as chairman following the defeat of his buy-out plan . |
| 18 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose staying on to finish organising the exhibition , among other things . ’ |
| 22 | Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen . |
| 23 | How would you feel staying on at school when all your friends had left ? |
| 24 | When benefits in kind are considered , the balance of the redistribution is in fact significantly in favour of the most prosperous households that typically enjoy more take-up of education through children staying on at school and more benefits with regard to health care . |
| 25 | For increasing numbers of pupils this means staying on at school and improving their examination results . |
| 26 | Contact with employers has enabled many young people to see the value of staying on at school to improve their qualifications . |
| 27 | In another context Mao Qing and Mar Molinero ( 1986 ) argue that for school pupils staying on at school after the minimal school leaving age the mid-1970s were the last time that external factors such as high youth unemployment did not influence demand . |
| 28 | The proportion of young people staying on at school between the crucial ages of 16 and 19 has always been heavily weighted towards the upper classes . |
| 29 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 30 | The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school . |