Example sentences of "stay on [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 4 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 5 | Of course , those who squeezed him out were at pains to say Young was staying on as Young Group chief executive . |
| 6 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 7 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |
| 11 | Compared to our competitors , not enough of our young people stay on to post-compulsory education . |
| 12 | We have an extremely flexible timetable in S6 and we are always pleased to welcome pupils from other schools who join the 130 or more Heriot pupils who stay on to Sixth Year . |
| 13 | They 're waterproof , too , and stay on through vigorous activity . |
| 14 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 15 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 16 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 17 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 18 | Several authorities increased their maintenance allowances , paid to the children of very poor families to stay on at secondary school , –5 to compensate for the failure to raise the school leaving age to fifteen , scheduled to take place in 1939 , but held back by the war . |
| 19 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Andrew Stavanger stayed on as managing director of the shipping company , with a seat on the board of the group . |
| 24 | After his party 's heavy defeat in the subsequent general election , Ellis stayed on as chief whip . |
| 25 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |