The phrase "a background of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the context, setting, or circumstances surrounding a particular subject or event.
Example: "The documentary provided a background of the historical events that led to the conflict."
Alternatives: "context of something" or "setting of something".
It's an austere, straightforward story that sets personal corruption and familial betrayals against a background of political violence, something the author knows intimately.
And technology has changed finance perhaps more than any other industry outside computing itself.Under the buttonwood treeIt may seem surprising, against such a background of febrile change, that something as old-fashioned as equity should have come so strongly to the fore.
There was a contestant who loved swallows, had got married or engaged or something to a background of swallows, wore a dress festooned with swallows, baked three actual swallows (I'm joking) – and was unfeasibly ripe for the swallow joke.
His every entrance is announced by a background gong, like something out of an old Tintin comic now banned by school libraries.
As we wrote last week when Spotify announced a deal with Genius — where the annotations company will provide lyrics, observations and artists' thoughts that will pop up as the music is played — Spotify can use features like this to make its app less of a background tool and more of something that people can actively look at while they're listening to the music.
After a run of costume roles though – Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited and Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey – playing Kim in Chalet Girl, an ordinary girl from an ordinary background, was "something of a relief".
Equally, I know many people from a whole host of different backgrounds who talk about a sense of something higher that they just cannot get away from.
We had trunky Bond, sitting on the edge of a gleaming swimming pool and reminding us that he's still got deltoids to die for in the first behind-the-scenes shot of the new movie; then beardy Bond, superimposed on a background that looked like something out of Blade Runner, staring into the distance with Walther PPK raised and ready.
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