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

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1 It 's against that background , congress , that we 've pressed forward usually in cooperation with the T G W U claims on behalf of our members in these industries .
2 Congress , it 's against this background , against a lifetime of commitment to equality that I firmly oppose the change .
3 It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council .
4 It is against that background that the Government are introducing the Bill .
5 It is against that background that the DES approach to the CNAA to take over responsibility for the DMS has to be seen .
6 It is against this background and out of this environment that YOUNG SOUL REBELS came about . ’
7 It is against this background , and that of desperate economic crisis in the entire Soviet Union , that IME is supposed to proceed .
8 It is against this background of rejection that Leapor 's celebrations of friendship must be understood .
9 It is against this background that we examine the nature of police power more than ten years into the premiership of Mrs Thatcher and scrutinize the degree to which the individual is protected from the abuse of that power .
10 It is against this background that the new approaches to the psychiatric management of attempted suicide and the new official policy have to be considered .
11 It is against this background that we must see the recent withdrawals of a number of analgesics from the market in Britain .
12 It is against this background that the cruise missiles ' launch crews would begin their final countdown .
13 It is against this background of a highly anomalous solvent possessing some kind of possible patterning effect that we must consider the homoeopathic potencies .
14 It is against this background that I wish to consider the contemporary Crisis of Capitalism .
15 It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy .
16 It is against this background that the Battle of Cable Street must be viewed .
17 It is against this background that we operate .
18 Gloucester 's justification is presented as the armed force at his disposal , and it is against this background that he was petitioned to take the throne by the three estates .
19 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 .
20 It is against this background — of the growing importance that the Government attaches to means-tested assistance — seen both in its rising share of public expenditure , and the significant rise in the numbers claiming such assistance , that we need to consider the operation of the poverty and unemployment traps .
21 It is against this background that Henry Claman 's review has to be judged .
22 It is against this background of law and authority that the security documents in the present case must be construed .
23 It is against this background that the local authority rightly decided that , if it were lawful , it might well become necessary to give W. medical treatment to which she did not consent .
24 It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities .
25 It is against this background that we turn to the mathematics curriculum and ask what mathematics is relevant to real life .
26 It is against this background that the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) has made a timely and substantial grant to the British Library of Political and Economic Science ( BLPES ) , working in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary British History , to conduct a major survey of just this area .
27 Gloucester 's justification is presented as the armed force at his disposal , and it is against this background that he was petitioned to take the throne by the three estates .
28 It is against this background that the writings of Fortunatus 's friend , Gregory of Tours , need to be considered .
29 It was against that background that the judges and staff of the court had throughout the year been examining what measures were feasible which tip the balance in the direction of reducing delays , either by an improved system for screening appeals or by an improved system for handling them or both .
30 It was against this background that Peter Thompson , the chief executive of NFC , together with his chairman , Bobby Lawrence , came to see me in my small office on the Cabinet floor of the House of Commons on 18 May 1981 .
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