Sentence examples for this was background from inspiring English sources

This was background music to the white hunter's sotto voce story about his adventures with the Nairobi criminals four years ago.

All this was background to George W. Bush's decision to seek Congressional authorization for the second Iraq war, in the fall of 2002 — again over the opposition of Dick Cheney, who didn't think he needed it.

The values obtained by this was background corrected and ratios of treated versus untreated intensity were converted in Log2 ratios which was averaged for replicates of same set of experiment.

This is background saliva, the kind that's always flowing, though much more slowly.

But all of this is background to the urgent matter at hand.

"If she gets a hit it's on the record; if she whiffs this is background," an aide whispers.

All of this is background to Clinton's striking decision to remind us, via an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, of The Atlantic, that she is more hawkish than Obama.

All of this is background to our reading on Monday.

Keep this is background in mind as you picture me taking a wine tour of Chile.

This is background to where we are now, and I could go on, but a large part of my point is made.

This is background reading for you to learn about your question.