Example sentences of "it be against this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is against this background of rejection that Leapor 's celebrations of friendship must be understood . |
| 2 | It is against this background of a highly anomalous solvent possessing some kind of possible patterning effect that we must consider the homoeopathic potencies . |
| 3 | It is against this background of restricted choice that one should initially view what was really a middle-class pressure group for women 's rights : the campaign to open up the compositor 's trade to women . |
| 4 | It is against this background of law and authority that the security documents in the present case must be construed . |
| 5 | It was against this sort of thing — the view that chapel attendance was nothing more than an opportunity to sit , to listen and , in part , to worship the preacher — that many Nonconformists reacted . |
| 6 | And it was against this backcloth of public concern that the Spanish Civil War began on the 19 July 1936 . |
| 7 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |