The phrase "confronted with a set of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to explain a situation in which someone is faced with a specific group or collection of things. Example: The students were confronted with a set of challenging math problems during their exam.
Confronted with a set of interesting fatalities to liven up her dreary new home, the not-quite-employed Jimm springs into action.
According to this psychology of perception, when organisms are confronted with a set of elements, they perceive a whole pattern or configuration, rather than bits and pieces, against a background.
As sex researchers dig into the data from the Ashley Madison hack, they're confronted with a set of thorny questions: Is the data reliable?
Today, more than 150 years on, we find ourselves again confronted with a set of externalities this time global ones that again require us to update the economic operating system in ways that make it a better fit for the challenges of our century.
Recently, mining companies are confronted with a set of drivers that affect the economics of mining.
When confronted with a set of familiar objects and one new object, they matched the new object with a new, unknown label.
College teachers in China are confronted with a lot of pressure from teaching, researching and living.
On the face of it, then, we are confronted with a paradox a set of independently very plausible but seemingly mutually inconsistent propositions.
High rates of anthropogenic translocation of species around the world [11] [13] provide an ideal opportunity to test this hypothesis; if a large brain helps to deal with novel challenges, then larger brains should be particularly useful for organisms that are suddenly confronted with a novel set of biotic and abiotic challenges as a result of translocation [3], [10], [14], [15].
As my colleague Gideon Nachman pointed out on Thursday, teams from the East have a knack of reaching for the revolver when confronted with a poor set of results, and coaching tenures seem almost laughably short, Jason Kreis being a case in point.
A typical setup is this: a computer is confronted with a large set of data, and on its own asked to sort the elements of that data into categories, a bit like a child who is asked to sort a set of toys, with no specific instructions.
