"We were talking to guests with professional backgrounds similar to our own," she said.

The department features teachers with professional backgrounds in science, technology and mathematics.

Many of the members came from professional and university-educated backgrounds.

Her professional background is not golf, but mostly business, media and advertising.

She was in fact robustly English and from much the same professional background as himself.

I am 48 and come from a highly qualified professional background.

It put forward ten candidates in the 1944 election, all of whom came from professional backgrounds.

The professional background is provided by a wide range of teachers and research workers affiliated with the University.

The contexts in which they work vary, as do their personal and professional backgrounds.

He said, finally, "I don't see any serious need to question you about your professional background.

In their line of work I wouldn't last five minutes.

They very often do, the women in our line of work.

Your father wanted to be in his line of work.

People who need job security go into another line of work.

I asked him what line of work his father had been in.

I feel bad for him, but he has to find another line of work.

In his line of work, he probably had to be.

More than one man had been turned off by her line of work.

In his line of work one question always led to another.

Nothing to do with your line of work, really, but they seem to want you.