Example sentences of "geared to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indeed , some operating systems are geared to handling queues by offering the user a choice of queuing algorithm . |
| 32 | The following comment comes from a mature entrant : ‘ The course is geared to preparing students to go into the business world with confidence . |
| 33 | They are in such demand that we have the phenomenon of an industry geared to satisfying a craving for new varieties every year . |
| 34 | But here profitable fruit production is geared to working with nature . |
| 35 | John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , made a blistering attack on the Government 's under-investment in rail , and promised that Labour 's transport policies would be geared to preventing environmental damage . |
| 36 | Towards the end of the last decade , a generation of innovative , treatment make-up bases in skin-flattering shades emerged , geared to covering the skin with an imperceptible film of colour while simultaneously hydrating and protecting it . |
| 37 | By corollary monetary policies which are geared to stabilizing the rate of growth of the money supply ( or , more generally , reducing the unanticipated component of a given change in the money supply ) will eliminate the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment . |
| 38 | The segregated education system is geared to keeping the majority of black people in subordination , while health and housing conditions are poor and , most importantly , black people have been deprived of political and human rights . |
| 39 | It was started as a response to the existing state education system in place under apartheid , in which ‘ black children were educated in a way geared to keeping them as a docile , compliant labour force ’ , according to a colleague of the School . |
| 40 | Treatment was geared to boosting John 's immune system which was being battered by various systemic fungi and intestinal parasites . |
| 41 | The whole administrative machine was geared to raising taxes and levies of men to fight to defend the Islamic realm against the encircling infidels . |
| 42 | Exhibitions are also geared to raising our profile to stimulate the demand for information , and attracting sponsorship funding to assist in their production and promotion . |
| 43 | They will be geared to making us express how we lack contentment with one system of government or another . |
| 44 | Work is geared to making as many articles as possible as cheaply as possible . |
| 45 | By instinct , the Americans are geared to winning , the British to playing the game . |
| 46 | We have devised a game plan geared to winning more than entertaining . |
| 47 | Portugal had only agreed to participate at the last minute , reportedly fearing that the summit would otherwise be geared to increasing the influence of Spain in the region . |
| 48 | In Stirling this weekend , a pressure group geared to advancing the case for more women to be given key party posts will be set up . |
| 49 | For students whose background is more creative the treatment of the core subject areas would be more descriptive and more geared to understanding new applications of the existing technology rather than developing the technology itself . |
| 50 | It is all geared to forcing us into zero sum games . |
| 51 | Mr d'Ancona says much of the monitoring work done in Glasgow is geared to identifying projects which could yield future orders for supply companies which officials will alert by phone as soon as a trade lead is spotted . |
| 52 | The island is geared to giving a big welcome to tourists , especially Brits . |
| 53 | But in a business which is geared to giving people a good time , there is no doubt that there is a strong temptation to gloss over potential problems . |
| 54 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |