"paved the ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to lay down a hard surface on the ground, such as concrete or asphalt. Example: The construction workers paved the ground with concrete in preparation for the new building.
What has Rob Andrew got to do with it, other than his pipping Woodward for the elite director's job in 2006 and delivering something that Sir Clive would not have, a meaningful and long-term deal with the Premiership clubs that brought an end to a corrosive political divide and, it could be argued, paved the ground for this year's Six Nations title?
After years of struggling against the country's Communist rulers, and then against the repressive Islamic rule of the Taliban, one alliance leader said today that there was a strongly held view that the years of resistance had not been intended as a means of paving the way "for a return to the same old system which led us to this situation, which paved the ground for this situation.
Although financial gain is considered to be one of the major reasons for milk adulteration, inadequate supply for the increasing population all over the world has paved the ground for this as well.
Research, discovering needs and preferences of elderly from assistive medical robots and devices has paved the ground for researchers and scholars to design robots and devices fulfilling their needs and expectations.
Subsequent contributions from Kuznets (1937), Leontief (1941), and Meade and Stone (1941) paved the ground for Stone (1947) to set the main conventions for social accounting, embedded in the United Nations System of National Accounts that is used until present.
After all, we're the species who knocked down trees and paved the ground with asphalt.
The cracks on the paved ground surface found in June 2011 were mapped (Fig. 3).
The cumulative changes in surface elevation after the first TLS measurement, from 2011 to 2015, also reflect this elliptical pattern, whose major axis direction was W36°N (Fig. 8). Figure 8 also shows the mapped crack lines on the paved ground surface found in June 2011, whose average orientation is W37.5°N, almost the same as that of the elliptic uplift.
Checkerboard-type flat targets made by black and white tapes were placed on the paved ground, whose central point was identified in the TLS point cloud using the RealWorks software.
Onishi et al. (2009) performed extensive GNSS surveys at the site with more than 4000 measurement points over the paved ground surface in June 2006 and September 2008.
That patch of southern Somalia has almost no paved roads, and when the ground is wet, it turns into gluey mud.
