Example sentences of "be geared to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his decisions are geared to investing in quality : quality people , quality training , quality machines , quality environment — all geared to quality products and services . |
| 2 | Indeed , some operating systems are geared to handling queues by offering the user a choice of queuing algorithm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By instinct , the Americans are geared to winning , the British to playing the game . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They will be geared to making us express how we lack contentment with one system of government or another . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Stick to the knitting : identifying that which is done best and ensuring that every aspect of management is geared to maintaining it . |
| 17 | It education is geared to producing such men . |
| 18 | As its name implies , the Home Management Account is geared to helping you control the household budget . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Work is geared to making as many articles as possible as cheaply as possible . |
| 21 | The following comment comes from a mature entrant : ‘ The course is geared to preparing students to go into the business world with confidence . |
| 22 | The island is geared to giving a big welcome to tourists , especially Brits . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But here profitable fruit production is geared to working with nature . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The whole administrative machine was geared to raising taxes and levies of men to fight to defend the Islamic realm against the encircling infidels . |
| 30 | Treatment was geared to boosting John 's immune system which was being battered by various systemic fungi and intestinal parasites . |