VERB + FOUNDATION
- establish, set up
- a charitable foundation established in 1983
PREP
- ~ for
- a private foundation for sport and the arts
VERB + FOUNDATION
- dig, lay
- digging trenches and laying concrete foundations
- shake, undermine
- The thunder seemed to shake the very foundations of the building. They had dug too deep and undermined the foundations of the house
FOUNDATION + NOUN
- stone
- In 1853 Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the new palace
ADJ
- excellent, firm, good, secure, solid, sound, strong
- insecure, shaky, weak
- ideological, intellectual, philosophical, political, theoretical
- economic
VERB + FOUNDATION
- build, lay, provide (sth with)
- This agreement laid a sound foundation for future cooperation between the two countries
- build on
- We now have a firm foundation to build on
- rest on
- The peace treaty rests on shaky foundations
- rock, shake, strike at, threaten, undermine
- an event which rocked the foundations of British politics
FOUNDATION + NOUN
- course, year
- The Fine Arts degree starts with a foundation year
- subjects
- All students have to do the foundation subjects of maths and English
PREP
- ~ for
- providing a solid foundation for this new democracy
PHRASES
- rock/shake sth to its foundations
- The scandal rocked the legal establishment to its foundations
VERB + FOUNDATION
- have no
- malicious rumours which have no foundation
PREP
- without ~
- Rumours of his resignation are entirely without foundation