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So laying the foundations is crucial.

Laying the foundations is a practical guide to teaching sex and relationships in primary schools that looks at what children want to learn and contains an explanation of SRE terminology.

"We're in the process of rebuilding a company here and putting down the foundations is one of the most important things when you're rebuilding," said GM's chief financial officer, Chris Liddell.

For example, better mapping of the foundations is needed – the palace was built on marshland – and a small building next to the Department of Health in Whitehall might have to be knocked down to make way for an as yet uncosted temporary chamber.

However, associate professor of law, Garry Jenkins, in his paper 'Who's Afraid of Philanthropcapitalism' (pdf), writes that the new venture philanthropists are "increasingly directive, controlling, metric focused, and business oriented with respect to their interactions with grantee public charities in an attempt to demonstrate that the work of the foundations is 'strategic' and 'accountable'".

The design load on the foundations is 860 kN.

Only the foundations are left.

The foundations were unsound.

The foundations are strong.

But the foundations are there.

The foundations are in place.