Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at school " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was a lot going on at school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How would you feel staying on at school when all your friends had left ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For increasing numbers of pupils this means staying on at school and improving their examination results . |
| 6 | Contact with employers has enabled many young people to see the value of staying on at school to improve their qualifications . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school . |
| 11 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 12 | Staying on at school beyond the school-leaving age involves loss of earnings or benefit , and the absence of grants to 16–18 year olds at school inevitably means that the lower socio-economic groups will be under-represented in this stage of education . |
| 13 | During the 1980s , there has been a slight increase in the percentages of young people over 16 staying on at school , as Figure 11.2 shows ( see also Chapter 5 , Figure 5.19 and Chapter 12 , Figure 12.5 ) . |
| 14 | We need to see more of our young people staying on at school , more of them going into further and higher education and more of them achieving qualifications . |
| 15 | More 16-year-olds are staying on at school than ever before — more than 50 per cent . |
| 16 | In the British study , pupils staying on at school until the age of 18 achieved much higher scores on political knowledge than did those leaving school at 16 . |
| 17 | America and the Pacific Rim countries have 80–90 per cent of their young people staying on at school beyond 16 . |
| 18 | The fun to be had by larking about at school would be a contrast with the grind of labouring jobs . |
| 19 | But this policy of buying time should not be at the expense of those young people who are currently losing out at school . |
| 20 | A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt . |
| 21 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |