Example sentences of "geared to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smash Hits , easily Britain 's biggest-selling pop magazine , is completely geared to reflecting the mainstream . |
| 2 | The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited . |
| 3 | Stick to the knitting : identifying that which is done best and ensuring that every aspect of management is geared to maintaining it . |
| 4 | The budget would still be a tight one , but it would be geared to maintaining business investment as we approach the post-1992 European single market , and limiting the effects of the recession on business . |
| 5 | Everything the school does should be geared to providing most effectively and efficiently for pupil learning — be it the structures and systems used to run the school , the deployment of staff , or the use of its other resources . |
| 6 | Those employers who were already geared to providing some form of re-entry course for returning nurses then had the benefit of these guidelines to work from , and began adapting their course objectives and outcomes to the recommended UKCC criteria . |
| 7 | UK firm Object Designers Ltd , Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire , has launched a sister company — Object Trainers Ltd — geared to providing courses on all types of object technology across Europe . |
| 8 | UK firm Object Designers Ltd , Henley-on-Thames , Oxford shire , has launched a sister company — Object Trainers Ltd — geared to providing courses on all types of object technology across Europe . |
| 9 | The advancement of the newly invented discipline of English must thus be examined in the context of a growth in the number of semi-autonomous professions in fields like public administration and welfare , journalism , publicity , and the arts , and of the establishment of national cultural institutions geared to providing a schedule for organizing the nation . |
| 10 | Firstly , in a society which is consumer-orientated and largely sympathetic to the provision of welfare services , a considerable proportion of both private and public investment is geared to providing goods and services to people within fairly easy reach of their homes . |
| 11 | The resources , powers and energies of older people need to be positively harnessed and policies should be geared to sustaining their independence for as long as possible . |
| 12 | All his decisions are geared to investing in quality : quality people , quality training , quality machines , quality environment — all geared to quality products and services . |
| 13 | The magnitude of the special needs post-holder 's task becomes clear if one considers that these skills are to be geared to assisting classroom teachers of varying lengths of career experience ( often considerably longer than that of the ‘ qualified ’ supporter ) and range of subject specialities ( beyond the supporter 's expertise ) — teachers already under pressure from many directions and with ambivalent feelings about ‘ hawing problems ’ and ‘ being seen as in need of help ’ ; and if one considers that the supporter 's extended task is to deepen these colleagues ' understanding of ‘ special ’ learning needs , to enhance their skills , discover and develop their strengths and the confidence that the professional know.how they possess can be summoned for responding more appropriately to most of the behavioural , emotional and learning difficulties they encounter . |
| 14 | The actual leisure product ranges from clubs offering relaxation and body conditioning facilities to those geared to developing high levels of physical fitness through training programmes . |
| 15 | Quatermass and the Pit solved this headache by recourse to the infant Radiophonic Workshop — a special sounds ' studio at the BBC 's Delaware Road premises , geared to creating all manner of weird audio effects . |
| 16 | Some footwear chains are exclusively geared to meeting the demands of fashion conscious teenagers , for example . |
| 17 | He thought it scandalous that a new type of higher education had emerged ‘ as a result of piecemeal decisions , often ill-prepared , and taken in conditions of near total secrecy , and which is simply not geared to meeting the country 's most pressing requirements ’ . |
| 18 | Er obviously , I mean the new towns movement as conceived immediately after the war was geared to meeting London housing needs , you know , we 're not comparing like with like , but I think , I take the point that you are making in terms of er sustainability . |
| 19 | Medical and paramedical education in fact is primarily geared to producing health professionals for the western market . |
| 20 | It education is geared to producing such men . |
| 21 | As we have seen , the business is very close to oil and natural gas in many ways , and it is also geared to dealing with large utilities like British Gas , British Coal and the Central Electricity Generating Board — when clout helps . |
| 22 | It will take a complete re-education of the public , as well as considerable political courage and will-power , before ‘ health ’ regains its proper meaning , and policies geared to achieving it are accepted . |
| 23 | A particular case that I remember was the client 's stock calculations geared to achieving the required gross profit percentage . |
| 24 | The danger in this , as in the previously described case of the GCSE examinations , is that such targets can all too easily omit those qualities we most value in favour of the ones that can readily be measured , or lead to children being given a much narrower syllabus geared to achieving only those aspects that are going to be assessed . |
| 25 | Of the nursery , the location of which is being kept secret , Mr Wood said : ‘ We are geared to taking the injured and now have veterinary backing . ’ |
| 26 | This was geared to helping him to behave likewise with a failing pupil , so that both he and the child had less need to make others feel useless . |
| 27 | As its name implies , the Home Management Account is geared to helping you control the household budget . |
| 28 | SELLAFIELD has given a major cash boost to a unique local scheme geared to helping young people in the area . |
| 29 | It therefore seemed appropriate that the Fund should be geared to helping interested young people become involved with Medau , e.g. to set up classes , youth teams , and to encourage teacher-training , etc . |
| 30 | Yet it needs to make good the outdated complex , which is not even geared to withstanding bad weather . |