Example sentences of "staying on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , those who squeezed him out were at pains to say Young was staying on as Young Group chief executive . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " Fancy staying on at three-thirty and helping me paint ? " |
| 5 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 6 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | More young people are staying on after 16 than ever before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But suddenly she was filled with another fear — about the wisdom of staying on in such close proximity with him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 13 | 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 . |