Example sentences of "catering for " in BNC.

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1 Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats .
2 RAF Uxbridge is the current holder of the Jolliffe Trophy , which is awarded to the unit that is judged to provide the best standard of catering for all three messes .
3 some of the most successful of the small indies have achieved success largely by catering for specialist markets ( generally ignored by the majors ) and developing a good reputation for its product with the fans of particular styles , so much so that some indie labels enjoy instant sales of a new release on the strength of the quality of their past product .
4 In October 1981 be floated the company on the Stock Exchange and four months later be merged Habitat with Mothercare , the world 's largest chain of stores catering for the needs of mothers and babies , and became chairman of the Habitat Mothercare Group plc .
5 When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers .
6 Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer .
7 Three hundred years of catering for the City of London were celebrated by Ring & Brymer at the Museum of London last week .
8 The kitchen looks like any other to be found in an establishment catering for large numbers .
9 Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly .
10 Fashion Extra is one excellent catalogue catering for larger sizes .
11 Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas .
12 Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas .
13 In the next three years , 300 more local radio stations could be set up , catering for local tastes , to ‘ broaden the range of programmes available ’ .
14 One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers .
15 Plus … various establishments catering for other tastes , so … .
16 Section 18 penalizes the possession of a firearm with intent to commit a crime or to resist arrest : this is a more specific variation of section 16 , catering for the defence that the firearm was being carried for use in a robbery but with no intention that it would actually be used to endanger anyone , only to frighten — that would be a section 18 offence .
17 A restaurant in Swansea is now catering for all tastes , by serving canine customers , as well as human ones .
18 Slowly an underground resistance movement grew , catering for discriminating customers .
19 With the Rule of St Benedict ( c. 550 ) , supremely , the monastic community was launched on the road of catering for ordinary people rather than a spiritual élite .
20 One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do …
21 Catering for tourists by providing caravans and bed and breakfast was the main activity , particularly so in Derbyshire and Speyside where the scenic beauty , which brings thousands of tourists to these areas , was being exploited .
22 There is therefore a real need for the adequate provision of residential homes catering for long stay mentally handicapped children , and an equal need that such homes offer the right type of care for the young mentally handicapped child .
23 Or if the Left get in they 're not going to look kindly on gringos catering for tourists .
24 As a result of these , ten percent of children go to special schools — e.g. The Petö Institute or schools catering for the blind , deaf or moderately mentally handicapped .
25 The house is now a hotel , catering for local weddings and business receptions ; and the school sports facilities , including the covered pool , have been integrated as an attraction for people wanting an active weekend .
26 Made in tough , impact absorbing braided netting , Helios cylinder protectors encompass a full range of cylinder sizes catering for the needs of all breathing apparatus and Scuba users — and in a range of colours including blue , red and yellow .
27 Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all .
28 Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world .
29 The absurdity of the universities ' power to dictate the curriculum to schools catering for children , 90 per cent of whom were not proceeding to university , was manifest .
30 All this is not very encouraging for those who want to see the GCSE as a single simple examination system catering for virtually all school pupils according to their needs .
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