The phrase "a setting that bears" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an environment or context that has certain characteristics or qualities.
Example: "The novel takes place in a setting that bears a striking resemblance to the author's childhood home."
Alternatives: "an environment that reflects" or "a backdrop that exhibits".
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., April 12 - The pitch was a fastball on the outside part of the plate, exactly what Jeffrey Maier was looking for on Wednesday afternoon as Wesleyan University took on Bates College in a relaxed baseball setting that bore no resemblance to Yankee Stadium.
They also identified a series of data sets that bore on variables in the chain of events that led to prevalent HIV infection in women, including age at sexual debut, risk factors for exposure to HIV (men's and women's numbers of partners, communication about avoidance of risk), risk factors for transmission (use of condoms), incident HIV infection and mortality.
Reeve Carney, the singer-frontman of the band that bears his name, is set to play Peter Parker and Spider-Man on Broadway, though he did not act in character while performing "Boy" at a luncheon honoring the musical's director, Julie Taymor.
A Twitter feed maintained by one of the organizers posted on Thursday: With many television shows having their premieres in the past week, residents weighed in on the networks' latest offerings, which included one city dweller's ultimate pet peeve: shows that claim to take place in New York, but are shot on sets that bear little resemblance to it.
It promotes components that were spinoffs from Pakistan's three-decade-long project to build a nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium, set in a drawing that bears a striking resemblance to a mushroom cloud.
Based on Peter Beagle's 1960 novel of the same title, this York Theater Company production (with a book and lyrics by ERIK HAAGENSEN and music by RICHARD ISEN) is a tale of two couples (one living, one dead), set in a graveyard that bears a strong resemblance to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
Silver's tales are set in Los Angeles, a place that bears as much relationship to the "paradise" of the title as a cactus does to a Christmas tree.
Now she comfortably carries Christian Ditter's How to Be Single, a breezy roundelay of sexual liberation and self-discovery set in Manhattan that bears more than a passing resemblance to Sex and the City (the good TV shows, not the bad movies).
Singapore is trying to become the education center of Southeast Asia by setting up a liberal arts college that bears Yale's imprimatur, while controlling the showcase as tightly as it does the military.
Mark Garrison, the owner of a salon on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that bears his name, set aside a floor for the treatment, equipped it with special ventilators and began providing industrial-strength respirators to his clients and stylists.
