Example sentences of "leave [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When is the farce of the introduced terms of school leaving to be reviewed so that those young people on the borderline of the system can benefit from their right to leave school at 16 years of age ? |
| 2 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 3 | My father said I 'd got to leave school at fourteen . |
| 4 | Will Compacts encourage students to leave school at sixteen instead of participating in further education ? |
| 5 | Suzanne wished to leave school at sixteen and become a hairdresser . |
| 6 | DO NOT LEAVE PAPER AT OTHER TIMES ! |
| 7 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 8 | Did most people leave school at that age ? |
| 9 | There are even those who look back nostalgically to the days when people might leave school at 11 , when the educated classes were distinct from the uneducated . |
| 10 | Both had left school at fourteen . |
| 11 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 12 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 13 | Crookes was born in 1832 and , having left school at fifteen , he went to the Royal College of Chemistry . |
| 14 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 15 | He had left school at sixteen to make money . |
| 16 | From 14 April 1931 down to September 1933 the Socialists held three ministerial portfolios : Indalecio Prieto occupied the Finance ministry in the Provisional Government and later the Ministry of Public Works ; Fernando de los Ríos was Minister of Justice ; and the Ministry of Labour was occupied throughout by the general secretary of the UGT , Francisco Largo Caballero , a former plasterer who had left school at seven and was later to be Prime Minister of the wartime Republic . |
| 17 | ‘ I had left school at 15 with no qualifications and always done dressmaking , but I never enjoyed it . |
| 18 | What should I do if I leave school at eleven thirty because I 've got a dental appointment ? |
| 19 | There has been a particular concentration on measures for young people to the extent that many who leave school at sixteen can expect up to two years in government schemes which combine work experience with training . |
| 20 | Teachers no doubt have suspected it , and maybe known it for themselves , but it is a fact that a large number of children at present leave school at sixteen knowing less mathematics than when they entered at eleven . |
| 21 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 22 | A small minority of young people now leave school at 16 to go directly into employment . |
| 23 | If you leave school at 16 the training should be at least to the standard of YTS . |
| 24 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 25 | ‘ I would try and turn my hand to anything but it must be very hard if you leave school at 15 . ’ |
| 26 | Leaving Certificate at Ordinary level ( grade A , B or C ) achieved in or after 1977 . |
| 27 | Leaving Certificate at Ordinary level ( grade A , B , C ) achieved in or after 1977 . |
| 28 | As a general guideline the following levels of attainment in BTEC National Diploma and Republic of Ireland Leaving Certificate at Higher level are taken to be equivalent to the ranges of ‘ A ’ level grades shown : |
| 29 | Nevertheless , following the exit from commercial property , which realised £100m , borrowings have been reduced to £168m , leaving gearing at 50 p.c . |
| 30 | This afternoon we will discuss risk-stratification to identify the so-called lower risk group who in some American studies are leaving hospital at 3 days . |