Example sentences of "stay on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 2 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 3 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 4 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 5 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 6 | Moreover , the proportion of the secondary-school population staying on beyond the minimum school-leaving age was steadily rising from 29.2 per cent in 1959 to 51.3 per cent in 1964 , and by 1969 it would be 61.5 per cent . |
| 7 | He also found that the proportion of school pupils staying on after the minimum school leaving age responded to changes in registered adult unemployment . |
| 8 | The purpose of this study was : to examine proposals ( from the Schools Council ) for a certificate of extended education ( CEE ) — a single-subject qualification at 17 plus , for pupils staying on after the compulsory leaving age but not taking A levels ; to study pilot schemes already in operation ; and to advise the Secretary of State as to whether the CEE should be given official recognition . |
| 9 | Researcher : Why is the percentage of Afro-Caribbean pupils staying on in the sixth form so low ? |
| 10 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 11 | and the percentage staying on until the sixth year from 14 per cent . |
| 12 | Head of sixth : This year they 're mostly Indians , that is the largest ethnic group of people who stay on to the sixth form , followed by the white children , then the Pakistani and West Indian in very small numbers . |
| 13 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 14 | And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ? |
| 15 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 16 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 17 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 18 | The hard core of party-goers stayed on until the small hours , drinking coffee , sprawled on settees , sinking into morose abuse and gloom , surfacing occasionally to laugh , to chatter , relapsing , rising , sinking again . |
| 19 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |