Example sentences of "[vb -s] in return for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some two dozen of his tenants were re-housed in new brick , thatched houses , each with its own garden , and he was careful to look after their employment , health and education needs in return for steady work , church attendance and sober habits . |
| 2 | As the Supreme Court had ruled that capping the amount which a candidate could spend would amount to an unconstitutional interference with the right of free speech , the bill aimed to establish voluntary spending limits in return for the receipt of benefits . |
| 3 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 4 | In September 1989 in Austin , Texas , Glen Mauldin , an assistant to former senator Chic Hecht ( Republican , Nevada ) was indicted on charges that he used his office to help secure approval of thrift deals in return for payments . |
| 5 | On Nov. 20 , 1990 , the government announced an agreement with the trade unions , estimated to cost A$1,000 million per year , whereby it would increase tax cuts in return for continued wage restraint . |
| 6 | English Nature , the UK government 's official conservation agency , has launched a new pilot scheme aimed at persuading occupiers and owners of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) to adopt conservationist practises in return for annual payments . |
| 7 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 8 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |
| 9 | In theory Syria could resettle many more , including the refugees in Lebanon , which Meir Pa'il proposes it resettles in return for Israeli acquiescence in Syria 's incorporation of Lebanon . |
| 10 | It offered union co-operation on pay claims in return for the government 's pledge to curb prices and inflation , but it was never underwritten by individual unions — a key weakness as it turned out . |
| 11 | The personal sector earns in return for contributing to current production ( no pensions are received by individuals in our model ) a gross income of £13,500 million , and of this sum , £3,000 million is paid in income tax to the public sector . |