单词 | premise |
释义 | premise (premɪs ) Word forms: premises language note: The spelling premiss is also used in British English for meaning [sense 2]. 1. plural noun [oft on the N] The premises of a business or an institution are all the buildings and land that it occupies in one place. There is a kitchen on the premises. The business moved to premises in Brompton Road. 2. countable noun [oft NOUN that] A premise is something that you suppose is true and that you use as a basis for developing an idea. [formal] The premise is that schools will work harder to improve if they must compete. The programme started from the premise that men and women are on equal terms in this society. Synonyms: assumption, proposition, thesis, ground Collocations: intriguing premise It's an intriguing premise that borders on melodrama before tipping over into an almost metaphysical dimension. Times, Sunday Times And third, despite its intriguing premise, the play pulls its punches. Times, Sunday Times This new, collaboratively-made production springs from such an intriguing premise that it seems a real shame that ultimately it doesn't quite add up. Times, Sunday Times It's an intriguing premise and possibly rather a generous one. Times, Sunday Times By the third episode, however, that intriguing premise has dissolved, with the two groups merging into an amorphous whole. Times, Sunday Times It's a promising premise that soon gets stuck in a cul-de-sac. Times, Sunday Times It also makes an original and promising premise for a thriller. Times, Sunday Times But the film revels in predictability and never achieves the comedy it should, given its hilarious cast and promising premise. Christianity Today It should be a promising premise, but the plot moves more slowly than the series' new-style opening titles. Times, Sunday Times Merging the two, he creates a wishfulfilment notion of how a premier ought to be that fails to get the best from a promising premise. Times, Sunday Times Developers, especially housebuilders, will favour clear open sites that generate higher-value residential premises quickly. Times, Sunday Times Part 1 introduced a new system for assessing the condition of residential premises and for enforcing housing standards in relation to such premises. Times, Sunday Times The order can be made in respect of business or residential premises. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a result, many of the buildings originated as residential premises and warehouses for merchants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The number of parishioners had shrunk due to the ever intensifying commercialisation of the inner city with residential premises being superseded by offices and shops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a refreshingly simple premise - and it sneaks up and beguiles the audience. Times, Sunday Times And, perhaps most importantly, he has that great knack of boiling something complicated down to a very simple premise. The Sun It takes a simple premise - a piece of visual art in the making - and gives it a weird and wondrous spin. Times, Sunday Times This magnificent new series begins with a simple premise. Times, Sunday Times It works on a simple premise: confuse it to lose it. Times, Sunday Times Part of it should explain what notice must be given in the event your son wishes to vacate the premises. The Sun Then they will vacate the premises at speed and with nary a fare-thee-well. Times, Sunday Times That was a considerable amount of intellectual property to have vacated the premises. Times, Sunday Times Instead, they tell clinicians that a dangerous germ has recently passed through the body but has already vacated the premises. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The manufacturer of military and masonic regalia, medals and badges will use some of the money to pay off its debts and has six months to vacate the premises. Times, Sunday Times I suddenly realised the whole premise was wrong. Times, Sunday Times It's the whole premise of what the code's about. The Sun But then the whole premise starts to wear thin. Times, Sunday Times The whole premise of the reform was being betrayed. Times, Sunday Times No, there was still no cap on undergraduate numbers, so no need to choose between countries' students, rather undermining the story's whole premise. Times, Sunday Times |
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