Sentence examples for on an allowances from inspiring English sources
"We are more than half way through a consultation period on an allowances system for staff across the council which is fair, consistent and affordable".
Controlling what the woman is allowed to buy, or putting her on an "allowance" against her will.
My accountant has me on an allowance.
US leaders have insisted on an allowance for force.
Thereafter he lived frugally on an allowance from his father and on his income from writing.
He must also live on an allowance of $300,000 a month.
Evenutally, Yee was given the paycheck with the laundrybag, and Yee put his customer on an allowance.
His tightfisted father kept him on an allowance at first, but expected Crane to get a job.
They do not, however, suffer the discipline of having to raise their revenue themselves: they are like teenagers on an allowance.
Though she subsisted on an allowance of only £5 a week she was often squired by equally glamorous beaux such as Mark Boxer.
By 1926 — spottily educated, having run away from boarding school — he was living in London on an allowance from his mother, supplemented by petty theft and, a bit later, by occasional largesse from enamored older men.
