Sentence examples for sets something of from inspiring English sources
But it's clear to me, now, that The Transformers: The Movie is darker than any film aimed at a comparable audience has a right to be – that its opening scene, which depicts the destruction of an entire planet, children and all, sets something of a precedent.
Kubrick's meticulous standards set something of a production benchmark.
The Doherty family, however, may have set something of a record in attempting to accommodate both sets of in-laws.
He's part of the LHCb detector team: he is, as he explains in this Bright Club set, something of an expert on bottoms (bottom quarks, that is).
The killer Gary Gilmore set something of a pattern for death row inmates, some lawyers say, by inviting his execution in 1977.
Johnathan Croft, a G.I.S. specialist with the Vermont Agency of Transportation's Mapping Section, told me that Arseneault had set something of a standard for rediscovering the state's ancient roads.
The first Johannes Vermeer painting to be put up for auction since 1921 was sold at Sotheby's in London for $30 million on Wednesday, setting something of a new benchmark for paintings of its era.
Is this AIDS situation a special case, or do you see this as part of a more general threat to the pharmaceutical industry's ability to set and maintain prices? A. This does set something of a precedent, and that has created some nervousness.
It's true that federal mandates set something of a binding constraint.
In doing so, he set something of a template: What is #Merky if not the natural successor to #Dench?
The U.S. Agency for International Development is implementing rigorously its new anti-abortion guidelines on population assistance, setting something of a bureaucratic record for counterproductive activity.
