• They wanted to know, before they made their first incision, what was just below the surface.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • The threat of diluting the devout coalition by Catholic Latinos is just below the surface.

    FORBES: Immigration And Prosperity: Why Tech Needs Open Borders

  • Rainfall helps keep it clean: water seeps through the rubber and drains into pipes just below the surface.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • The water table was probably just below the surface, making tunnels highly unlikely.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden

  • Recent pictures from it suggest that water might exist just below the surface and could still emerge on to the Martian surface as springs.

    BBC: New probe for Mars

  • Along with some pieces of uniform, a bottle, some coins and a pipe were found with the body, just below the surface of the soil.

    BBC: Hunt for WWI soldier's family

  • Instead, it collects, oasis-like, just below the surface where it can sustain the termites and a supply of perennial grasses at the margins of the circles.

    BBC: Termites 'engineer fairy circles'

  • The tension simmered just below the surface and sporadic scuffles broke out, with former England captains Martin Corry and Phil Vickery trading blows and ex-international team-mates Dallaglio and Julian White also squaring up.

    BBC: Leicester 9-25 Wasps

  • But there's acid just below the surface.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • There are some systems that actually will take a circle and drop it just below the surface of the water and have the oil kind of flow into it, almost like a drain, recover it and pump it out.

    WHITEHOUSE: Daily Press Briefing

  • Alex Scott, SNH area officer for West Sutherland and Wester Ross (North), said the caves provided a unique record of Scotland's ancient history, as glaciers during the Ice Age erased many remains buried just below the surface of the ground.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | New tests on rare polar bear find

  • She told him (and the rabbits that sometimes surreptitiously accompanied the riders) that people were becoming more and more unbalanced: studies had proved it, which led the psychiatrist to conjecture that perhaps mental instability was not so much a disease as a stratum of normality, just below the surface of normality as it was commonly conceived.

    NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

  • These containers float just below the sea surface and represent a serious hazard to navigation.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • Celeriac is a celery variety refined over time to produce an increasingly large, solid, globular root just below the soil surface.

    NPR: The Vegetable World's Ugly Duckling: Celeriac

  • The deck of some boats, such as the Taunton, a 228-foot Danish steamer built in 1902, lie just 10 feet below the surface, an easy duck dive for even an average swimmer.

    BBC: Wreck diving in Bermuda

  • Some scientists believe that the reason BP is so big on the idea of using dispersants -- well, first of all, they say they believe that the oil can do just as much damage below the surface as it can do above the surface after being -- even after being dispersed.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The result is that any coating, such as an antibacterial layer, would be "self-repairing" after small amounts of damage, as the molecular chains just below the damaged layer re-cover the surface.

    BBC: Coating heals itself after damage

  • But just as his head dropped below the surface, and the boat tugged against his grip, his feet found the sand, and he stood.

    NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

  • Since then, the bones have lain undisturbed just 2.5 meters (8 feet) below the surface in one of the few areas of the central London neighborhood not to have been developed over the years.

    CNN: London rail excavation unearths suspected 'plague pit'

  • To torment the players further, the USGA shaved down the banks below seven of the greens, so that balls that just barely miss the putting surface, or are chipped just a smidge too hard, can sometimes race 10 to 20 yards away.

    WSJ: 2012 U.S. Open: An Olympian Effort Just to Survive

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