Which preposition to use with foundation

of Occurrences 2174%

For this, laid a firm foundation of law for Rome, adorned it with buildings, and all thatmy lords, words fail me; there are none can rise to the height of my indignation.

at Occurrences 498%

Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

for Occurrences 451%

After several senators had said enough for a foundation for thirty columns each in the Globe, they let it go for the present.

in Occurrences 164%

Even England, the mother of democracies, and the most stable of all Governments in the maintenance of law, has been shaken to its very foundations in the last three years, when powerful groups of men attempted to seize the State by the throat and compel submission to their demands by threatening to starve the community.

on Occurrences 78%

It had not been given to the XXIst Corps to obtain the distinction of driving the Turks for ever from Jerusalem, but the work of the Corps in the third and fourth weeks of November had laid the foundation on which victory finally rested.

to Occurrences 35%

At any rate he recalled Prior Lanzo and kept him so long that William de Warenne, growing impatient, seriously thought of transferring his foundation to the Benedictines; but at length Prior Lanzo returned and all was arranged as was at first intended.

than Occurrences 27%

"The truth is that morals are built on a far surer foundation than that of creeds, which are here to-day and gone to-morrow.

as Occurrences 13%

The native mind, keen, discerning, receptive, understood the meaning and depth of this simplicity, and from the moment of high noon on December 11, 1917, when General Allenby went into the Mount Zion quarter of the Holy City, the British name rested on a foundation as certain and sure as the rock on which the Holy City stands.

by Occurrences 12%

The noblest building of this most noble place, and the only one now left to us which dates from its foundation by Bishop Henry of Blois is the church.

with Occurrences 11%

20 The dignity of empire laid aside, (For love but ill agrees with kingly pride,) The ruler of the skies, the thundering god, Who shakes the world's foundations with a nod, Among a herd of lowing heifers ran, Frisked in a bull, and bellowed o'er the plain.

from Occurrences 6%

This, which dates in its foundation from long before the Conquest, is to-day a great cruciform building consisting roughly of Norman nave and transepts, the nave buttressed on the north in the thirteenth century, fifteenth-century chancel and western tower, and thirteenth-century north porchaltogether one of the most glorious churches left to us in England.

through Occurrences 6%

WERSON, LOUIS G. Rhythmic foundation through drumming.

without Occurrences 3%

But from what has followed, from the way in which these little toys have been misused, we are tempted to speculate on whether these "Gifts" supplied that definite foundation without which, in these days, no notice would have been taken of the new ideas, or whether they have proved the sunken rock on which much that was valuable has perished.

beneath Occurrences 2%

Some think themselves in danger, with a foundation beneath them no less solid than terra firma, while others are content to trust their fortunes on the sea.

within Occurrences 2%

"If you need more, telephone to me, but understand I want to start to work laying the foundations within the next few days.

under Occurrences 2%

This association had existed from the period of the foundation under the Gauls of Lutetia, the city of fluvial commerce (Fig. 103), and it is mentioned in the letters patent of Louis VII.

into Occurrences 1%

Such fornications are the violent excesses whereby conjugial sports are changed into tragic scenes: for immoderate and inordinate fornications are like burning flames which, arising out of ultimates, consume the body, parch the fibres, defile the blood, and vitiate the rational principles of the mind; for they burst forth like a fire from the foundation into the house, which consumes the whole.

along Occurrences 1%

Some mountains opened in the middle, and dispersed their mass to the right and left, their summits disappearing, or being lost in the newly-formed valleys; others slipped from their foundations along with all their edifices, which sometimes were overthrown, but more rarely remained uninjured, and the inhabitants not even disturbed in their sleep.

underneath Occurrences 1%

She frequently said to those about her, "I feel the foundation underneath me sure."

until Occurrences 1%

Croker was intimately associated with the Quarterly from its foundation until 1857, retaining his bitterness and spite to the year of his death.

against Occurrences 1%

The box had crashed on top of one big flat rock in the river bed, and had tilted on this foundation against another upright rock.

near Occurrences 1%

Certainly to-day the traveller's earliest steps are turned towards these two buildings, and first to that which is in its foundation near eight hundred years the olderthe Cathedral church once of St Swithin, the Bishop and Confessor (852-863) and now since the Reformation of the Holy Trinity.

above Occurrences 1%

She made the letters large, and with a flourish, and dyed them the most brilliant purple they would take, and set them on a wire foundation above her gate.

out Occurrences 1%

Erasmus, as he sits enthroned in a scholar's chair in the market-place at Rotterdam, the buildings about leaning on their insecure foundations out of the perpendicular, and the market-women, with their apple-bloom complexions, crowding around him, shows a somewhat withered face and figure, less genial than the handsome Heidelberg professor as he stands at Worms.

outside Occurrences 1%

At first it was tossed backward and forward on the billows, and then it was stranded upon a few cliff-foundations outside of Småland.

Which preposition to use with  foundation