The phrase "the set comprises" is correct and usable in written English.
It generally implies that the set is composed of something, and so is often used in reference to a group of items. For example, "The set comprises eight books, a DVD player, and a pair of headphones."
The set comprises a group of political and media élite who have made the area their home, many of whom are now at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal.
Half the set comprises Evans's lightly sketched originals, including the brooding Variation on the Misery, the free-jazz fanfare of Proclamation and the anthemic So Long, and a fine lineup includes tenorist Billy Harper, trombonist Jimmy Knepper and drummers Elvin Jones and Al Mouzon.
The set comprises the donor cell and other selected macrocells based on the LPN average received signal power.
The set comprises nitrosoureas (14 chemicals), N-nitrosamines (18 chemicals) C-nitroso-compounds (1 chemical), nitrosourethane (1 chemical) and nitrosoguanidine (1 chemical), which have been bioassayed in male rat using gavage as the route of administration.
The set comprises 21 completed genomes and 52 nearly completed genomes.
The set comprises 500 abstracts manually annotated from which 334 were used for training tmVar while the remaining 166 were used for testing it.
The audience would have had an easier night had the set comprised more "favourites", but that's not the point.
Channel support refers in particular to the set comprised by the locations of nonzero elements of channel representation in the angular/spatial domain in this paper.
The set comprised 719 loci, with an average spacing of ∼5 cM.
For the Ostensive Naming Condition, the set comprised four familiar and two novel objects.
The set comprised six men with a known family history of PrCa and all the six showed LOH at BRCA2.
