The phrase "a familiar background" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a setting or context that is known or recognizable to someone.
Example: "As she walked into the room, she was greeted by a familiar background of family photos that brought back fond memories."
Alternatives: "a recognizable setting" or "an accustomed backdrop".
It was more about finding someone from a familiar background who speaks the same language.
The warnings have become a familiar background noise, droning in the American imagination.
So what advantage do subjects demonstrate when they see an object that they've seen before against a familiar background?
"I wanted it to have a familiar background, something they knew; but a mystery would force them to address a different type of world than their own".
Yet when the state installed a new operator at a Queens nursing home, he had a familiar background: he runs a home in Albany that was cited for violations that endangered residents, state officials said. 1 Fresh Air Fund 34 OBITUARIES 35 Charles Eaton A member of an American entertainment clan whose credits go back to the Ziegfeld Follies, he was 94. 35 Chess 34 Weather 24.
As was mentioned in section 2, such a syntactically and semantically combinatorial language of thought is a familiar background assumption for causal theories.
And the war in Iraq has gone from a gathering storm to familiar background noise, like the baseball scores or stock market reports.
Tourists who visit New York must have a similar problem, seeing the city not as the familiar background to everyday life but as a picture postcard or TV drama, as if the city for them were a film -- a performance -- rather than a place.
Mostly it was the crisp, honest discussion of gay lives, loves and pressures, all set against a familiar sitcom background.
But Mr. Biggers, who was born in 1970 and teaches at Columbia University, has a tendency to overprogram his work conceptually, forcing viewers to read it with reference to a familiar, generalized background of African-American history.
From the familiar background chatter of people speaking Chinese, a syllable leapt out from nowhere.
