Sentence examples for background took from inspiring English sources

To improve contrast, the taupe background took a lighter tone, and subway lines gained a gray border.

During that era, tens of thousands of people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi background took low-paying jobs in the cotton mills that fueled the economy in towns across the industrial northwest.

Nor is one likely to be named anytime soon, for it also lacks a permanent executive director; Frank Slattery Jr., a Philadelphia businessman with no orchestral background, took over temporarily in January after the premature departure of James Undercofler.

A similar background took Cass off later to explore Amsterdam, while Sam in London, aged 16, pondered rebellion by thinking of becoming a BMW-toting stockbroker: "Until my mates talked me out of it".

Damrosch shows us that "Democracy in America" was the outcome of a nine-month tour of the United States that Tocqueville, a temperamental, randy 25-year-old French apprentice magistrate of aristocratic background, took in 1831-32 withisis friend Gustave de Beaumont.

These environments were created with a software program called O2, and each background took two to three weeks to render.

He'd always be quiet, in the background, taking pictures.

If he was taking pictures, then I was in the background taking my own shots.

Prospective students, who are not expected to have any programming background, take several hours of online logic tests.

The PEB curriculum consists of four core courses (see below), which all students, regardless of their undergraduate background, take together.

His life story may be moving: a blind, ruddily handsome Italian of modest background takes up singing late, overcomes his timidity and achieves a dream-come-true career.