"set of manners" is a correct phrase to use in written English.
You can use it in situations when you are referring to the specific etiquette someone has been taught, such as: "As a child, my parents taught me a set of manners that I still use today."
And to what extent is it a cultivated set of manners whose goal is seduction?
Contribute with Guardian Witness We might live in a global world but each nation has its own set of manners.
The seemingly authentic love with which the opera begins is really based on a set of manners governing courtship and affection.
A weird set of manners around boxsets and catch-up has been established – no discussing the end of Breaking Bad or the latest episode of Game of Thrones until you're sure everyone around the table has seen them, for instance – and we're happy to relive the important bits of telly, and pick them over at a later date.
"Know the basic set of manners in each country, like you must bow deeply when you enter a room in Japan at an interview.
The Democrats have employed an entirely different set of catchwords, manners and tactics to reinforce the image of an orderly process.
Horses are herd animals, they are extremely social and live by a set of instinctual "manners".
Her Pulitzer prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres is a midwestern agricultural story that is also a retelling of King Lear; her Hollywood-set comedy of manners Ten Days in the Hills is modelled on The Decameron.
Reginald Hill, that most playful of genre authors, fancies himself a latter-day Jane Austen in THE PRICE OF BUTCHER'S MEAT (Harper, $26.95), an English mystery-of-manners set in Sandytown, a fictional resort on the Yorkshire coast, and satirizing inbred families obsessed with money and matrimony.
He's from before the age of protest, before the Beatles, and, far from embodying a lost set of styles and manners, he represents the absence of cool.
By character, we mean a set of behavior and manners of thinking that individuals use in their everyday life situations.
