Sentence examples for built on a bed of from inspiring English sources

Social capital isn't built on a bed of sand.

It was built on a bed of gravel shaped like the prow of a ship sailing toward the glacier.

Built on a bed of quartzite with a Utah granite foundation, the house is pale yellow stucco with brown wood trim.

Echoes of this approach, but with more humor and less cynicism, infuse Fischer's earliest work: the screwed-together apple and pear, two chairs that appear to be copulating, a collapsing cinder-block wall built on a bed of rotting fruits and vegetables.

Professor Paul Younger, director of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability, said: "We know that Newcastle is built on a bed of granite and, depending on the mix of rock at this depth, we are optimistic of reaching temperatures not far short of boiling point.

The track itself as featured in our instrumental premiere is built on a bed of pinging drums, coarse claps, and colourful xylophone-like melodies.

The sprawling open-air rooftop garden is being carefully built on a multitiered bed of special soil, polystyrene, egg-carton-shaped cones and "waterproof membrane" -- all to keep the roof from leaking, or caving under the normal combined weight of soil, rain and plant life.

Opened in 1959, it was built on a seemingly solid bed of basalt.

And L'Aquila is built on the bed of a dry lake, so the soil tends to amplify the motions of the ground.

Property taxes are built on this bed of negotiation and disagreement, and are just complicated enough to seem unfair on top of that.

These subterranean lines were largely built on the bed of the defunct Morris Canal, which was drained in the 1920's.