Example sentences of "stay [adv] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 4 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 5 | As we have seen , children staying longer in formal education appear to acquire more political knowledge than those leaving school earlier . |
| 6 | The top line on the picture is even more speculative , but informed by the analysis of 32-year-olds discussed above , it traces what the person would earn with identical characteristics other than that of being male and staying throughout in full-time employment . |
| 7 | She was still trembling a little inside , and the thought of staying here in this house on her own made her nervous . |
| 8 | In his comments on the pictures he has selected , Mr Foot , a stalwart of these anonymous columns for many years , stays firmly in that perspective . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ? |
| 10 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 11 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 12 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 13 | The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) . |
| 14 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Nirvana , like eternal life in the teaching of Jesus , can be attained in this life , as it was in the case of the Buddha who consented to stay on in this world for the sake of men , rather than move on at once to Para-nirvana , the final and highest heaven . |
| 16 | Labour in Japan does tend to work for fewer employers over a typical career and does therefore tend to stay longer in each firm than in the West , but there are very significant variations depending on age , firm size and gender . |