The phrase "constitute the background" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to form the underlying basis or context for something. Example: The historical events of the 1960s constitute the background of this novel, providing important context for understanding the characters' motivations and actions.
These observations constitute the background for this short book.
Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism constitute the background of modern Korean culture.
These techniques constitute the background for the clinical applications that are outlined in the following sections.
Metals entering into the river through natural processes such as weathering, erosion, and dissolution of water-soluble salts constitute the background level, but those added through anthropogenic activities substantially enhance the concentrations in sediment (Rzetala 2015).
Some of the considerations reported in this essay constitute the background of the International Master Course in Sustainable Urban Management: Communication, Economics and Social Science for Creative Managers and Administrators, which I designed for IULM University, Milan, Italy and elaborated in my Environmental Politics (Poli 2015).
a large number of various non-target micro-organisms constitute the background flora.
This may thus be a crucial dysfunction, probably constituting the background from which migraine attack develops.
Münch (2002, p. 50) argues that Stumpf's position not only comes close to that of Husserl, but it also constitutes the background of Husserl's critique of psychologism in his Logical Investigations.
Before this, however, the overall conception of nationhood and citizenship in the examined countries, as laid out in Citizenship constellations section, constitutes the background against which any reform occurs, irrespectively of the experience with emigration.
Based on the participants' statements, in order to show devotion, love, and have a warm relationship, the terms often used are trust, confidence, loyalty and safety and a deep sense of loyalty to the man must be established and this constitutes the background for sexual intimacy without condom use.
Those immediate post-war years in which Eleanor Roosevelt's committee met and debated – its members drawn from the Far East, the Middle East, Europe and America, its lobbyists fresh from the front lines of human suffering – constitute the interpretative background to the UDHR, and if one has that background in mind as one reads the articles, their import comes vividly and urgently across.
