Example sentences of "stay on at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondary education is compulsory up to the age of 16 , and pupils can stay on at school for up to three years longer . |
| 2 | The ‘ unsafe ’ driver is more likely than the ‘ safe ’ driver to be a non-manual worker and to have stayed on at school after the age of 16 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | America and the Pacific Rim countries have 80–90 per cent of their young people staying on at school beyond 16 . |
| 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 | And more broadly still , dealing with pupils with ‘ special educational needs ’ in the ordinary classroom ; doing one 's best to combat racism and sexism in pupils ' attitudes ; taking account of personal and social education in one 's teaching style ; paying attention to the deliberate coaching of study skills ; providing worthwhile vocational courses for the greatly increased cohort of non-academic pupils who stay on at school beyond the age of sixteen . |
| 9 | A general tradition in a neighbourhood that children leave school as soon as possible affects the decision of individuals to stay on at school beyond the compulsory school leaving age ; and so on . |
| 10 | In 1973 , the CEE was introduced as an experiment to meet the needs of the ‘ new sixth ’ , that is , 17-year-olds who , under the comprehensive system , wanted to stay on at school for another year but not to take A levels . |
| 11 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 12 | All children are compelled to attend school and young people are encouraged to stay on at school in order to maximize this process of self-fulfillment . |
| 13 | Rose reported in 1953 that 79 per cent of a sample of unemployed older men in Hull knew ‘ that the country was asking people to stay on at work after retiring age ’ and 74 per cent of them thought this a ‘ reasonable thing ’ ( Rose 1953 ) . |
| 14 | With the total elderly population continuing to rise , women face having to stay on at work until 65 under Tory plans to equalise the retirement age . |
| 15 | A few years later , his parents emigrated to Australia but James stayed on at Craigie with his uncle . |
| 16 | There was a deep reserve of ability to be tapped , and ( whatever the improvement ) only 45 per cent of all fifteen-year-olds — including , of course , those in grammar schools — stayed on at school for a fifth year or more . |
| 17 | Most of the house-guests stayed on at Eglinton over the weekend before leaving the Earl alone with his memories — and his bills . |