Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for the release " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quebec clause , giving Britain a veto over an American use of the atomic bomb against third parties , was dropped in exchange for the release of Britain from the clause restricting her commercial exploitation of atomic energy . |
| 2 | ‘ … free People today announced what they are demanding in exchange for the release of Liam Shakespeare . |
| 3 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 4 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 5 | On Dec. 22 , 1989 , a senior West German official announced that 28 West German secret agents and 90 political prisoners ( mostly imprisoned for trying to flee the country ) had been released from East German prisons and sent to West Germany in exchange for the release of two former senior West German government secretaries , Elke Falk [ see p. 36046 ] and Margret Hocke , who had " spied for love " , and two East German agents . |
| 6 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 7 | Extreme right-wing groups offered support in exchange for the release of imprisoned right-winger , General Salan . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
| 9 | In Jammu and Kashmir , local politician 's daughter Nahida Imtiaz Soz , kidnapped in Srinagar on Feb. 27 by the Jammu and Kashmir Student Liberation Front , was freed on March 8 in return for the release of an imprisoned " Pakistani-trained militant " , Mushtaq Ahmed ; three policemen had also been abducted in an effort to secure the release of five separatist activists . |
| 10 | The letter called for the release of all detainees in the prisons of " occupied Palestine " ( Israel ) and Europe in return for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon . |
| 11 | In a letter received by the Agence France-Presse news agency in Bonn on April 13 the extremist Red Army Faction ( RAF ) announced that it would cease attacks on leading economic and government figures in return for the release of some of the longest-serving RAF prisoners . |
| 12 | The High Court ruled on June 30 , however , that a pardon conferred on the Black Moslems at the time in return for the release of hostages and signed by the President of the Senate and the then acting head of state Joseph Emmanuel Carter , absolved them of any crimes . |
| 13 | The sanctions really are beginning to bite and I wonder if Saddam feels that er he may be able to ask a favour or two from the West , in return for the release of these three British men . |
| 14 | De Gaulle left the country for Baden-Baden to consult with French army commander General Massau , who agreed , in return for the release of General Salan , that the army would support any legal government but would not intervene openly unless the Communist Party called for insurrection . |