Sentence examples for formed the background from inspiring English sources

These elements formed the background of Thursday's impressive success.

Its details might have formed the background of a delicious, and more robust, novel.

Bush's decision to extend the war into Pakistan, and his apparent hope of British backing, formed the background to a video conference call with Gordon Brown yesterday.

It seems that the lords and ladies who formed the background often forgot their appointments entirely, or were several hours late.

The city formed the background for several of John Steinbeck's novels, among them Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945); the National Steinbeck Center is located in Salinas.

Matt Bai's Times Magazine story on the failed 2011 budget talks between Mr. Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner, which formed the background of these talks.

It forms the background of all modern cosmological theories.

And that imaginative picture in turn forms the background to all Catholic teaching about sexuality.

The title refers to the plane tree, with distorted images of its leaves and fruit forming the background.

They stand under special awnings, waiting to do a "to-camera," for which we will form the background.

The marks left by the flood and the toxic mold that flowered in people's homes form the background to the names of the cast and the creators.