Sentence examples for empty premise from inspiring English sources

The provocative but empty premise of "Homeland" leads us into another jungle maze until we're too exhausted to suspend our disbelief any longer.

In this case, empty premises.

Yet the council helped choose the free schools' locations by finding empty premises to accommodate them.

When BBC newsreader Fiona Bruce visited this summer, she reported on a "recession-hit town" with "forlorn empty premises".

The social enterprise recruits occupants for temporarily empty premises, often earmarked for demolition or refurbishment, for an average weekly occupancy fee of £60.

Thus there will be a new "reoccupation relief" in the form of a halving of business rates for operators taking on empty premises.

Thomas added that the tax break for retailers occupying empty premises could also have unfortunate results: "It is open to a lot of abuse.

"We have a worrying number of empty premises in Britain and it is a problem that has been growing all year.

Occupy all those buy-to-leave homes, and the squillion empty premises being hogged and sat on by supermarket chains so that no one else can use them.

Roaming the streets besides was a cast of itinerant alcoholics who roosted the steps of any empty premises or the vicinity of any warm-air outlet.

And when I look through the open door of the first, apparently empty, premises there is a fully equipped commercial kitchen and the lingering smell of food that must have been prepared for lunch.