The large foundations which had previously supported the IPR shifted their financial resources to the University centers.

She'd worked so hard to put her life back together, piece by piece on a new foundation, and now that foundation was shifting.

Then, just before the crawlspace opened up into the basement, the whole load-bearing foundation shifted over to the exact center of the house.

In one place the foundation of the wall had actually shifted; elsewhere whole internal walls had fallen over and still lay heaped, covered by later deposits.

He had read in the papers that they had put glass tell-tales in them to check whether the foundations were shifting or not.

But now the foundations were shifting.

Some rescue workers speculated that the foundation might have shifted and given way after heavy weekend rain.

A foundation that had been built of stone shifted like sand on the blowing wind.

So the foundations had shifted.

"The foundations are shifting, we're about to see the largest, deepest, fastest change, the most shattering revolution, in the history of civilisation."