Example sentences of "be [verb] to seven [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 2 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 3 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 4 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |
| 5 | Twenty-six officers were sentenced to death , three peers , including Derwentwater , were executed ; of the rank and file 700 were sentenced to seven years ' transportation to the West Indies . |
| 6 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |