Then might this also be the reason for the theatrical backcloth of Vienna?

Rain poured down so the match was played against a dark grey backcloth.

I do this to provide the backcloth to the main purpose of this statement.

The others, fixed in a drum of light with a green backcloth, looked distant.

All achieved, he reminds you, from the block grant and against the backcloth of austerity.

The grubby pavement, the passers-by, the cars-everythinground them suddenly struck her as a timeless, stylized, unchanging backcloth.

The way it presented history, United's role is simply to make up the numbers, to supply the backcloth to Arsenal victory.

The lilies were like a snow-field under the moon, and the dark backcloth of olives was pricked with the lights of fireflies.

On the positive side, this is providing a stable backcloth for property, with oversupplies declining and the markets finally moving out of recessionary mode.

Backcloth curtains had been painted to resemble a sylvan glade, with blue sky and a bright rainbow just visible behind painted mountains beyond.