Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sir John Anderson ( later first Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , the former head of the Home Office , was put in charge of a hastily improvised London civil-defence organization during the Munich crisis , he appointed Scott as his chief staff officer ; and when Anderson became minister for civil defence , he made Scott responsible for the urgent task of accelerating London 's civil-defence arrangements , with the title of chief administrative officer for the London civil-defence region , as from February 1939 . |
| 2 | It included $2,890 million for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) programme ( $1,700 million less than originally requested by the Defence Department ) ; $2,350 million for the B-2 Stealth bomber project ; $688 million for the MX and Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missile programmes ( although no funds were authorized for MX rail deployment ) ; $1,840 million for the purchase of 52 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles ; and $964 million for the development of a new generation of fighter aircraft . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profits soared from £21.4 million to almost £32 million and the company joined Iceland Frozen Foods yesterday in announcing turnover that topped £1 billion for the first time , jumping from £920 million to £1.05 billion . |
| 4 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 5 | Turnover increased by 10 per cent over 1991 and exceeded £200 million for the first time , despite the suspension of the Hibernia project . |
| 6 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 7 | Deputies held Serbia responsible for the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina and proposed to send international observers to the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina " where there is no war yet but minorities are in danger " . |