Sentence examples for premises rather than from inspiring English sources

Frankly he is safer on the premises rather than off them.

Significantly, they chose to follow the French example and convert two indoor tennis courts as temporary premises rather than take over one of the surviving Elizabethan playhouses.

The majority of these were inside premises, rather than facing the street, and only a relatively small number of Cheshire's cameras – 504 – were run by public authorities.

This company allows customers to brew their own beer on its premises, rather than having to find space for the equipment at home.

Other groups have distributed in-house guides to the legal changes, and even hold funerals for members on their own premises rather than risk entrapping privately run crematories.

Of course, adding punitive taxation to commercial property has to be done with care – in the past, owners have taken the roof off premises rather than pay the rates or council tax.

The first "Stepford Wives" exploited the horror-movie implications of this premise, rather than its comic possibilities.

MISTRESSES (ABC, June 3) In this prime-time soap, based on a British series that ran from 2008 to 2010, extramarital sex is the premise rather than a bonus.

I try to let a story's facts lead me to a premise rather than the other way around — which may be virtuous, but it also means a lot of floundering and credulousness before things start to make sense.

It's a great shame when compared to the poster used in the UK and US – a restrained and smart design that hinted at a premise rather than a conclusion.

But these, as the psychoanalyst Bonnie Kaufman points out, use therapy as a dramatic premise, rather than attempting to offer a real representation of what happens behind closed doors.