The phrase "as its setting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the context or environment in which something takes place, often in literature or storytelling.
Example: "The novel unfolds in a small coastal town, with the ocean as its setting, creating a backdrop for the characters' lives."
Alternatives: "in its context" or "within its environment".
This is why The Office, the NBC show, uses an office as its setting: it's about as boring as it gets.
The play is lifted from recognizable earthliness in large ways and small; it never names Los Angeles as its setting, and though the persistent Hollywood references suggest it, Primitivo has his workouts in the early morning, which means he'd be swimming east toward the sun.
Otomo describes the film as "a kind of fable", and as such, he chose the Meiji era as its setting because he felt it offered the best framing for the story.
And as its setting is really a trashy swamp somewhere in Germany, it establishes Mr. Baumgarten's importance to 1980's setup photography.
While Nancy Farmer's latest novel, "The House of the Scorpion," has as its setting the vast poppy farm of a drug baron, it is unconcerned with the perils of addiction, and its roots reach rather farther back into children's literature -- to "Pinocchio," for starters.
"These are beautiful works of art in themselves". It is the artistry of the ballet sequence – as well as its setting in a ballet company, headed by the extraordinarily charismatic Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) – that accounts for its hold on artists such as Scorsese, who knew Powell and Pressburger in their later years.
While the organisation supports anti-establishment and civil disobedience as its set of principles, it also welcomes a large number of people for whom such goals are perhaps not as important as Anonymous would like us to believe.
Find necessary and sufficient conditions on S for existence of a PRFB belonging to some FB class C and using S as its set of decimators.
Sitting in the Colibri Cafe (home of those pricey cupcakes) Mr. Liu seems to be as perfectly cast to represent the new Beijing as Sanlitun Village North is to act as its set.
A proposition is thought of as its set of proofs.
This 30-minute outdoor production uses existing children's playground equipment as its set.
