Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] against the background " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between Government and Parliament can only be understood against the background of the convention of ministerial responsibility . |
| 2 | By dwelling on this complex chain of cause and effect , Gouldner indicated that the strike could only be understood against the background of changes in the employment relationship . |
| 3 | The forms of document in use by each of the plaintiffs are directed primarily to cases where independent valuers are instructed but they must also be considered against the background of a contract of employment between the valuer and the society . |
| 4 | My Lords , any discussion of this group of amendments must surely be conducted against the background of the vital Amendment thirty-one concerning the Chairman of the police authorities . |
| 5 | The whole movement of labouring class poets including Duck must then be understood against the background of a fashionable philanthropy . |
| 6 | That persistence must however be seen against the background of the following factors : ( a ) the weakness of her faith as I have found it ; ( b ) the fact that no explanation was ever offered to her by anyone in medical authority as to the risks that a refusal to have a blood transfusion presented to her health indeed to her life . |