Example sentences of "it be [adj] background " in BNC.

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1 A further useful beginning to identifying needs is the long article on the History of Education in the Encyclopaedia Britannica ; whilst much of this is not relevant directly to the study of local history , it is good background to the history of the English national systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .
2 In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success , not the recognition theme .
3 He had n't expected anything definite to emerge , but it was useful background .
4 It was this background knowledge that influenced the way in which Phil Barlow , the deputy head responsible for the curriculum , perceived the post and the appointment , as he explained to me :
5 And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in
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