Sentence examples for bedrock rather than from inspiring English sources

As most of the glacial deposits are covered by buildings or located in the adjacent waterways that make New York City an archipelago, finding fossils requires diligence at construction sites where, in general, the focus has been on what is revealed in the bedrock rather than the superficial surface materials.

The tombs KV63, KV62 and KV55 are dug into the actual wadi bedrock rather than the debris, showing that the then level of the valley was 5 m below its present level.

Yogos present an advantage to gemcutters: since they are found as primary constituent minerals within an igneous bedrock rather than in sedimentary alluvial deposits where most other sapphires are located, they retain a perfect or near perfect crystalline shape, making cutting much easier, as does their lack of inclusions, color zoning, or cloudiness.

The change in the exposure distribution with age corresponded to an increased use of private wells after 1960 and an increased use of bedrock rather than unconsolidated aquifers for private wells in New England.

Even the current veneer of snazz runs shallow, a thing of Sheetrock rather than bedrock, warned Councilwoman Margarita Lopez, a longtime housing advocate in the neighborhood.

What's slightly surprising about this is that he is a spin bowler, and spin bowlers, in England at any rate, tend to be appendages rather than the bedrock of a team.

Among schist outcrops, in contrast, cirque form appears randomly distributed, suggesting that bedrock characteristics (e.g., structure) rather than climate are the key controls on cirque growth patterns.

T S Eliot had his moments, and it always seems to me that one of the clinching arguments against the great literary critics F R Leavis and his wife, Queenie, is how little interest they took in other people down at the bedrock level of hatches, matches and dispatches, rather than their analysis of Milton.

Some political analysts dismissed Mr. Chen's more conciliatory tone as a political ploy rather than a shift in his bedrock beliefs.

Then his middle-class dreams — a paid-up mortgage, a nice refrigerator, a pension — would have been built on the bedrock of the union movement and a vital manufacturing economy rather than on the competition that ate into his heart and soul as a salesman, the figure of Everyman.

Although it may sound odd to persons who are not lawyers to base distinctions on intent rather than tangible physical properties, actually this is a bedrock principle of criminal justice.