1 The job would suit someone with a business background.

2 The chameleon survives by blending in with its background.

3 Concerning his background, I know nothing.

4 The computers were humming in the background.

5 He was lurking slyly in the background.

6 The soft background music made her feel sleepy.

7 She's contemptuous of my humble background.

8 It is important to have a broad educational background.

9 Against a background of impending famine,[] heavy fighting took place.

10 Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.

11 The mountains form a background to this photograph of the family.

12 Students from a privileged background have an advantage at university.

13 He could hear her dog barking and whining in the background.

14 These political developments should be seen against a background of increasing East-West tension.

15 He had learnt how to melt invisibly into the background.

16 We have a different background, a different history. Accordingly, we have the right to different futures.

17 In spite of their very different backgrounds, they immediately became friends.

18 The riots took place against a background of widespread unemployment.

19 The little figure that you can just see in the background of the photograph is me.

20 This is a photo of Mary with our house in the background.

21 It adopts the view that the fuzzy terms, commonly seen in the press, play unique roles in backgrounding and highlighting news events.

22 English news items are cited to explore the pragmatic functions of the passive voice: foregrounding and backgrounding, hinting, evasion and ambiguity.

23 In the future's China Asian regional cooperation strategy, we should stress bilateral cooperation under the backgrounding of multilateral cooperation.

24 The development process of MIS applications with object-oriented method is related to form design, data base subsystem design, associated design of foregrounding and backgrounding.