The phrase "having background" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a person's knowledge or experience in a particular subject or field. Example: "Having a background in finance, she was able to easily understand the complex financial documents."
No doubt having background knowledge does give a test taker a slight edge.
We also found out that most of the lawmakers are graduates with most of them having background in social sciences.
Students surveyed express no interest in having background readings or critical essays added to their reading list.
Rather than letting nuclear experts roam free, wouldn't it be better, he suggested, "to take in and put under thorough control practically every physicist in the country having background knowledge of the subject"?
Mr. McKoy, a technician for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, said in a telephone interview that he had complained about workers' being allowed in biocontainment areas without having background checks, about security officers' failure to check identification cards, about asbestos contamination inside a laboratory building and about insufficient ferry crews under Coast Guard regulations.
Besides, PCF having background material as Teflon exhibited high absorption loss of 0.3 cm-1 at 1 THz [14].
Low intensity spots having background-corrected intensity less than three times the background standard deviation in both channels were excluded from further analysis.
Our website has background information.
Students had background in engineering, business, and Futures Studies.
You cannot have background process that uses your bluetooth.
The site also has background on chiropractors and osteopaths.
