Sentence examples for background of the house from inspiring English sources

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

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.

These days you can also buy co-ordinating fabrics and paint as well as bedlinen and tableware, and in 2007-08 the company's revenues increased by 25 per cent, which against the background of the housing crash is astonishing.

In the background of the family's house, Barki spotted a painting of a woman with a 20s haircut, dressed in blue and asleep.

Unless the twins are having a rare health crisis or are being followed by video cameras (the National Geographic Channel showed a documentary about them last year), they are part of the general background din of the house and a far less dominant issue than the pressing financial concerns.

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

He repeatedly makes strained references to indigenous African architecture, and many of the projects lack the kind of accompanying text that could make them more accessible to a general audience: information about their physical setting, for example, or the historical background of the institutions they house.

Housing market activity has been recovering against the background of tight housing supply, the OECD says.

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.

Genetic background means that the genome of the house mouse contains many genetic polymorphisms causing variations in brain development and in behavioral performance.

A backstage dressing room glows warmly in the background and a miniature, idealized model of the house in which the play-within-the-play takes place shimmers beneath a scrim.