Sentence examples for allowance by from inspiring English sources

The system was subsequently widely criticised, because it allowed peers to claim the overnight allowance by registering a holiday home in the country as a main residence, and it has now been replaced.

Every child at infant school in England will receive free lunches from next September, Nick Clegg will announce on Wednesday in a £1.2bn coalition deal that will allow the Tories to introduce a marriage tax allowance by the end of the year.

We've already raised the personal allowance by £1000.

Lord Peter and Lady Maria were put on a minimal allowance by his trustees.

Mr Osborne will lift the tax-free personal allowance by an additional £500, to £10,500.

I got an allowance, by making my bed and mowing the lawn and being a good kid.

They typically obtain the allowances by buying them at auction or trading them.

Last year, the government increased the allowances by 11-16% of a constable's pay and the police training college is full.

The number of bids exceeded the total allowances by about 3 to 1. Polluters do not have to submit the allowances to cover their emissions until November 2014.

Since undisturbed farmland has the same effect as not emitting carbon dioxide at all, people could create allowances by leaving their forests untouched or by planting new trees.

One is to raise personal tax allowances by £200 a year, saving the standard-rate income-tax payer 88p a week.