Sentence examples for was background from inspiring English sources

For everyone but me, University Challenge was background noise.

But what we were providing was background music.

But the trip to New Orleans with her daughter wasn't just about football; football was background music.

In Bach for Kids at the Greenside, Geoffrey Thomas tells how he heard Gould play on his father's old records and thought it was background static.

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

But for long stretches this suite takes what was background music and places it in the foreground, which calls too much attention to his inventive pastiches.

Bloomingdale's called 25,000 of its best customers, and mailed out an additional 30,000 invitations to frequent shoppers, so it was no surprise that the relentless beeping of the computerized cash registers was background music most of the day.

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.

If a pixel met R − G > 0 and (R − G /(G − B) > 1, either the pixel was identified as an apple, else the pixel was background.

For normalization, each sample data value was background-subtracted and normalized by the median of positive controls represented on the array.

Probe-level data was background-adjusted and normalized, and gene expression measurements were obtained with the robust multi-array average (RMA) method [122], as implemented in the Affy package of Bioconductor.