Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] year [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOVE Simon Stern The Pan Book of Famous Quotations , cover illustration , commissioned by Jim Stanton , and exhibited at last year 's AOI Images show . |
| 2 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 3 | Mr Baig , a Lahore business man , was the subject of a BBC documentary four years ago about a Japanese heroin smuggler who was caught in Amsterdam and sentenced to 10 years ' jail . |
| 4 | He was arrested in November 1984 and sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment in early 1986 on charges of subversion in connection with the Tanjung Priok riots of 1984 [ see pp. 33287 ; 34233 ] . |
| 5 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 6 | Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | Rodolfo Salas , a leading member of the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist , on May 14 was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to six years ' and a day in prison ; Salas had been arrested in 1986 [ see p. 34872 ] . |
| 8 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | Todor Zhivkov , 81 , Bulgaria 's communist leader from 1954 until November 1989 , was convicted of misappropriation of state property and embezzlement on Sept. 4 and sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | After being returned to the USA he was convicted of drug trafficking , money laundering , and racketeering charges in April 1992 [ see p. 38857 ] , and sentenced to 40 years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | Prisoner of conscience Yndamiro Restano , president of an unofficial opposition group known as the Harmony Movement , was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment in May ( see Worldwide Appeal , pages 20–21 ) . |
| 12 | His fate and whereabouts remained unknown until June 1991 , when the Kuwait authorities informed his family that he had been convicted of ‘ collaboration ’ and sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | As foreseen in last year 's Annual Report , competitive quotations were sought , and a contract let , for plant operation and maintenance of the Library 's buildings for three years from 1991–92 . |
| 14 | As reported in last year 's Annual Report , the most serious factor in relation to purchasing for 1989–90 , owing to Government 's failure to meet the cost of nationally-negotiated pay awards over recent years , was the need to divert purchasing funds to pay essential salary costs during the year , thereby causing substantial reductions in the purchases of printed books of all periods , as well as manuscripts , maps and music . |
| 15 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |