"set a context" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to establish the background information required for an understanding of a given situation. For example: Before I discuss the role of museums in society, I will first set the context of the current cultural landscape.
These accomplishments aren't big government versus small government; they're using government to help set a context for private sector risk-taking and community initiative.
To set a context for this new work of French modernism, Mr. Robertson opened the program with Olivier Messiaen's early orchestral work "Les Offrandes Oubliées" ("The Forgotten Offerings"), completed in 1930 when the composer was 21.
Coming at the beginning of the show, they set a context for much of what follows: Richard Artschwager's drawing of crumbling buildings; Robert Hawkin's mysterious painting of a spreading explosive cloud; and Nicole Eisenman's "Exploring Mount Desert," in which a group of nude spear-wielding women patrol the postnuclear coast of Maine.
To set a context for the magazine, which is free for visitors, Mr. Grimonprez has created a mock airline waiting room with black foam seats, internally illuminated orange plastic coffee tables and graphics from the magazine blown up to wall scale.
This chapter addresses the advantages and challenges of dataflow to set a context for the remainder of this issue.
More specifically, researchers have not explored how CrossFit may set a context for the development of participants' body images, appearance management practices, and identities.
In this new model, government is sort of like Vince Lombardi, setting a context that allows individuals and families to compete.
This exclusivity is now entirely academic – the images are widely published on the internet – but it sets a context no less powerful for being imaginary.
The vitriolic nature of the public debate sets a context where inhumane treatment of asylum seekers is somehow permissible and where cases like Mubenga's can be swept aside.
Finally, with future work, it will be important to explore how CrossFit participation sets a context for men's embodied experiences and practices.
This interpretive study fills a gap in the literature by contributing insights into how women's participation in CrossFit sets a context for their embodied experiences, inside and outside of the box.
