Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

The premise of the show is that a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world.

The successful show enjoyed a five-year run, and functioned as a curtain-raiser for The Carol Burnett Show, remembered today for its abrupt season-to-season changes in casting and premise.

The original premise was for the couple to portray Lucy and Larry Lopez, a successful show business couple whose glamorous careers interfered with their efforts to maintain a normal marriage.

* Episode 114 of the Howie Mandel show Howie Do It repeated the experiment with a single pair of subjects using the premise of a Japanese game show.

The premise of the show would feature contestants in a " physically demanding competition with multiple rounds of elimination set in an indoor obstacle course.

To show that it is plausible, subsequent versions tend to expand on this premise, such as this modern example:

The show featured a very similar premise to the show Ground Force, in which a team of gardeners employed by the show descend on a supposedly worthy individual's place and improve the garden for the cameras within a specified time limit.

He attempts to show readers how to perceive reality outside their own experience and embrace such paradoxical questions by rejecting the premise — a strategy also called " unasking ".

The band name was a continuation of the regional premise of the TV show.

The initial premise of the show was to present viewers with a " slice of life " from the goings-on and happenings of the life of Ellie Riggs, a Southern California jazz singer.

Technicians use these surveys to help determine whether a trend will continue or if a reversal could develop ; they are most likely to anticipate a change when the surveys report extreme investor sentiment Surveys that show overwhelming bullishness, for example, are evidence that an uptrend may reverse ; the premise being that if most investors are bullish they have already bought the market ( anticipating higher prices ).

Oppenheimer, Pugh, and Davis began fine-tuning the premise of the show and writing the series ' first scripts.

The basic premise of the show is that " SCTV " is an independent television station in the city of Melonville.

The core premise of the show allowed for tremendous variety in presentation, but unlike Monty Python, which often would cut from one sketch to another without any resolution, the SCTV format required television style bridges.

As Rob, Buddy, and Sally write for a comedy show, the premise provides a built-in forum for them to be making jokes constantly.

In 1973, the Kroffts successfully sued McDonald's, arguing that the entire McDonaldland premise was essentially a ripoff of their television show.

Peckinpah has been criticized by fans of the show, who argue that his involvement caused the show to " jump the shark ", despite new executive producer Marc Scott Zicree's decision to restore Tracy Tormé's original " alternate history " premise for the series in season 4.

The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show.

The show acknowledged this attempt to restore its original premise, with the third season's hour-long opener titled Putting The Ork Back in Mork.

The show changed premise in seasons six and seven, when Delta Burke's character of Suzanne moved to Japan and sold her part of the design business to her wealthy cousin Allison Sugarbaker ( Julia Duffy ).

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

This was not, for the Angel, just a matter of running through a logical or deductive chain, or deciding on some action from some already established premise.

Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

The unstated premise was that the surviving brother would be king.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

Unlike similar constructed languages like aUI, Blissymbolics was conceived as a purely visual, speech-less language, on the premise that “ interlinguistic communication is mainly carried on by reading and writing ”.

His instruction was based on the premise that Buddhist ideology is eternal, and that Buddha would send emanations to complete the missions he had initiated.

His premise was that each repetition in learning increases the optimum interval before the next repetition is needed ( for near-perfect retention, initial repetitions may need to be made within days, but later they can be made after years ).

In the Bab Ballads and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique " topsy-turvy " style in which humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd.

The basic premise was to divide the players into two teams — attackers and defenders — with each side either assaulting or protecting the castle respectively.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.

A suitable premise for war arose in 1870, when the German Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was offered the Spanish throne, which had been vacant since a revolution in 1868.

It was a widely held idea among traditional theories of the origin of language ( glottology ), assumed as a premise that children's use of language gives insights on its origin and evolution.

His pangenesis theory was criticised for its Lamarckian premise that parents could pass on traits acquired in their lifetime.

He supported his premise by showing that their marriages, in which husband was the head, were arranged according to the rules of good management: those who are in command ( quae principantur ) in their society were always singular, while subordinates ( subiecta ) were multiple.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

A further premise was that the circuit was broken, explaining why it was " stuck " in that form.

The game was first published in 1984 during the Cold War and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an alternate history.

: Made in 1974, Carry On Dick, of the celebrated Carry On series of films, followed the same premise of a country vicar ( Sid James ) who is secretly an outlaw, in this case the highwayman Dick Turpin.

" Moore's character was initially intended to be a divorcée, but as divorce was still controversial at the time, and the network was afraid viewers might think that Mary had divorced Rob Petrie, Laura's husband on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the premise was changed to that of a single woman with a recently broken engagement.

Founded in 1971 by the husband-and-wife team of illustrators, Dick and Cherry Brown, the school's teaching philosophy is based on the premise that working professionals, not career teachers or full-time faculty, can provide the most current, relevant instruction.