Sentence examples for background of a house from inspiring English sources

In one Tooker picture, a steeple in the background of a house portrait is the only sign of the Old Whaler's Church.

A modest residential-property tax has been introduced against the background of a collapse in house prices.

Implementation of different communication approaches at the targeted levels and/or groups of the population was done against a background of a continuing public media campaign, house to house home visits by the Raedat Reefiyat (community health workers) who were trained to implement the AI community-based education programme and an intensive awareness raising program in primary schools.

Officers looked into the background of the house's owner, a retired Army officer named Mehmet Demirtaş, and determined that the grenades had come from the same cache as those used the previous year in a series of mysterious attacks on the offices of Cumhuriyet, a prominent Kemalist newspaper.

Even the music sounds ripped from the background of a hotel's in-house channel circa 1986.

Sergeant Weeren said on Sunday that he and his colleagues did not know the background of the house before they went in.

When demand outstrips supply against a background of profound housing need, tough action is required.

In the background of this charnel house is a small scene of the Virgin Mary giving alms to a child, reminding the viewer that a clear conscience trumps a well-stocked larder.

So sometimes you'll get a bit of a house in the background, but never the full house".

The novel starts as the families share a house at the Jersey Shore in 1979 against a background of a tide of syringes that closes the beach.

Men didn't really come into my life at all until I went to art school.' This postwar English Home Counties childhood was a mixture of rather grand family, with a baronetcy somewhere vaguely in the background, of big houses with large gardens, and absolutely no money.