Example sentences of "to stay [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Drug pushers have been warned to stay away from legal rave parties after almost a hundred people were arrested at an event over the weekend . |
| 5 | Repeated warnings are given to the peasants to stay away from passing traffic . |