rural background

collocation in English

meaningsofruralandbackground

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rural
adjective
uk
/ˈrʊə.rəl/us
/ˈrʊr.əl/
in, of, or like ...
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background
noun
uk
/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/us
/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/
the things that can be seen behind the main things or people in ...
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(Definition ofruralandbackgroundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Most servants perceived moving from theirruralbackgroundto urban middle-class households as a huge transition.
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Anyone with aruralbackgroundwill know at once that this is a very serious matter.
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This is not aruralbackground; this is an industrial background.
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They are rather thin in membership terms of people who have realruralbackgroundand knowledge.
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We talk glibly about training teachers who will have aruralbackground.
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I am not happy about the bodies being subsumed into some organisation which has no agricultural orruralbackground.
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Many of them come from aruralbackgroundand are projected into the complexities of living in an urban society.
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You cannot gain aruralbackgroundin a training college between the ages of 20 and 22.
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The board of each rural development agency will have at least one person with aruralbackgroundand rural experience.
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She was the only founder with aruralbackground.
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It educates children mainly from aruralbackground.
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Of course with the passage of time the proportion of the population with aruralbackground—or indeed rural family connections—has diminished with industrialisation.
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However,ruralbackgroundnoise can be extremely low and, in some sheltered locations, may remain low, even as the wind picks up.
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I accept to the hilt—anyone coming from aruralbackgroundor representing a rural seat would—that the farmyard is a dangerous place; we know that.
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He authored total 84 books - most of them haveruralbackground.
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Now it caters for around 450 students, mainly ofruralbackground.
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He came from a stronglyruralbackgroundwhere the home had no electricity.
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But being from aruralbackgroundand having no formal education he is never taken seriously.
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The rate of students ofruralbackgroundin a renowned university continues to decline.
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This film is based on a story against violence shown in aruralbackground.
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Prospective officials could come from aruralbackgroundand government positions were not restricted to the nobility.
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She is from aruralbackground, and a storyline develops where she begins drinking heavily and taking drugs.
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In the hamlet, the route serves as a main street before leaving the hamlet for aruralbackground.
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They can, but do not always, reflect the social class, education and urban orruralbackgroundof the speaker.
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It seems to me that, for two reasons, schoolteachers who wish to devote their lives to rural areas, should not only have aruralbackground, but a certain agricultural training.
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