Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [art] background " in BNC.
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| 1 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 2 | A good example of the changing social framework within which schools exist , and , equally important , an exposition of the background to one of the key contemporary issues , is Ali Rattansi 's ‘ Race , Education and British Society ’ . |
| 3 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 4 | A RECENT ISSUE OF PHOENIX MAGAZINE APPEARED ON THE NEWS STANDS WITH THREE BLANK PAGES WHERE AN ARTICLE ON THE BACKGROUND TO THE CONTROVERSIAL ACQUISITION OF A SITE IN BALLSBRIDGE BY TELECOM EIREANN , FOR £9.7 MILLION , SHOULD HAVE APPEARED , PHOENIX MAGAZINE IS PRINTED BY SMURFIT WEB PRESS , PART OF THE JEFFERSON SMURFIT GROUP OF WHICH MICHAEL SMURFIT IS CHAIRMAN , AND A DECISION WAS MADE BY THE COMPANY NOT TO PRINT THE ARTICLE AFTER LEGAL ADVICE . |
| 5 | The next section will be devoted to an outline of the background to the current debate on European monetary union . |
| 6 | Because of the seriousness of this issue , the second section of this chapter is devoted to an analysis of the background to the Kosovo problem and an assessment of current policies towards it . |
| 7 | An introduction on the background and development of hand knitted lace fabrics leads on to the machine knitting methods of today : stitch types ; how they are produced ; lace charts , symbols and how to punch or mark out pattern cards , are all explained in detail and illustrated throughout with knitted samples and the appropriate charts . |
| 8 | Then they counted neutrons 50 metres away from the cell to get an estimate of the background level due to neutrons coming from cosmic rays or the natural environment of the laboratory . |