'department premises' is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any physical space which is owned by a particular department (for example, an office or other building). For example: "The company held a meeting in the Human Resources department premises."
This reflects the paradoxical process of rights defending in contemporary China fighting against local administrative departments is premised on one's internalization of the legitimacy of the central government.
The difference between "Encounters" and other shows of this nature, however, is that Princeton, not surprisingly, has a rich and eclectic collection and, along with rigorous curators, a notable art history department on the premises.
Even so, I remember seeing Andy Kershaw in a TV interview telling how a woman from the BBC's premises department once came storming in complaining that Peel's studio contravened the Health and Safety at Work Act.
But Pixar may have outdone itself in the weird-premises department with "Wall-E," a $180 million post-apocalyptic, near-silent robot love story inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
He added that the department would inspect the premises again soon.
"The basic premise of the department," said Mary Schmidt Campbell, the dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, which will house the new program, "is that recorded music is an art form separate and distinct from live music, that the creative producer who identifies and oversees the construction of the artist's image is as much artist as the person who creates the music".
The founding premise of the department was, she says, "to collect those films produced by the inventors of the art of cinema, such as Thomas Edison.
Straight out of the "why didn't they think about this before" department, comes VidPay whose entire premise can be summed up in a single sentence: A white label platform for sponsored video campaigns.
The city health department said its inspection covers the premises regardless of who is running the kitchen.
It is expected to move to the soon-to-be vacated premises for the Department for Energy and Climate Change, which is being folded into the business department.
