Sentence examples for built on soil from inspiring English sources

SAN FRANCISCO--Sediments amplify ground motions during an earthquake, so that structures built on soil shake harder than those perched on bedrock.

It is flat, situated on a low-lying coastal plain, and built on soil that doesn't drain well.

The results suggest that a lower degree of broiler litter contamination with Salmonella may be related to the farms being built on soils with better natural drainage but also with higher available water capacity (amount of water that can be stored).

Civil engineering construction projects, particularly highway projects, built on problematic soils, including soft soils, expansive soils, and other soil types, require some form of soil stabilization to improve the subsoil properties.

I was told that all Russian churches are built on Russian soil (they brought the soil over) and that the main entrance to the church, which looks over all of Wiesbaden below and was used for nobility, has been closed since the Czar last visited in 1907 and will remain closed until a Czar comes again.

He is not abandoning the two antimissile bases built on American soil in the Bush years, one in Alaska and one in California.

The present study aims to evaluate the hazardous effects of wastewater on plasticity and swelling potentiality of clayey soil and extended its impact on buildings which were built on this soil.

Canada signed up in 2001, when it seemed a machine might be built on its soil.

"Housing developments are built on unsuitable soil in certain areas of [El Salvador's capital] San Salvador," the report says.

The predicted 1,000km range means quite a bit of diplomatic arm-wrestling may be involved, for the detectors would be of little use if built on American soil.

The Egyptian armed forces have about 1,000 American M1A1 Abrams tanks, which the United States allows to be built on Egyptian soil.