Sentence examples for around the foundations from inspiring English sources

The existence of waves and currents around the foundations of pile groups causes scour and reduces the stability of structures in coastal environments and rivers.

The project finally consisted of a steel and glass structure on an elliptic plan andshaped around the foundations of the Temple, with the statue at its center.

Hope now hangs on a German stabilizing product that could be injected into the soil, to compact it around the foundations.

In some West African cults, for example, before the central pole of a shrine or a house is installed, an animal is ritually slain, its blood being poured around the foundations and its body being put into the posthole.

Elsewhere there is a cathedral-like barn with six house-size paintings in it and an underground temple of Karnak, where the columns were made by digging out the earth from around the foundations of the buildings above.

The State Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to ship the contaminated soil, which was dug from around the foundations and yards of the five homes, to a quarry in Vernon.

Some have suggested that inviting this controversial artist was little more than a publicity stunt to generate buzz around the foundation, a private center for contemporary art that opened in a working-class neighborhood here in 2002.

The company removed concrete around the building, dug around the foundation and is placing a waterproof lining around the bottom 15 feet of the building.

Unafraid to play around with the foundations of its genre, it threw in homages to Space Harrier, OutRun and Afterburner as it did.

SYLVESTER: The best fix is a drain around the foundation.

The proposed mitigation herein is installation of sheet-pile walls around the foundation.