Example sentences of "[prep] five years ' imprisonment " in BNC.

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1 The alternative for prosecutors is to accept a plea to a non-sexual offence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding which carry maximum penalties of five years ' imprisonment .
2 Category D , carrying a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment , would cover indecent assaults not involving penetration .
3 Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 .
4 The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen .
5 This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment .
6 The offender , a Moroccan international footballer , was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for grievous bodily harm .
7 Sentencing Serjeant to five years ' imprisonment , Lord Lane ( the Lord Chief Justice ) said : ‘ The public sense of outrage must be marked .
8 The majority considered that such cases should in future be dealt with under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.3(1) , which makes it a crime to procure a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world and that the penalty for this offence should be raised from two to five years ' imprisonment .
9 Five members of the ( then banned ) South African African National Congress ( ANC ) were sentenced in July 1989 in Gaborone to five years ' imprisonment in July 1989 for possessing AK-47 rifles and ammunition .
10 On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] .
11 In July 1990 James Smith , Minister of Labour in the previous JLP adminstration , was convicted of fraud involving misappropriation of payments for Jamaicans working on farms in North America , and was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment and hard labour .
12 After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " .
13 Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease .
14 Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity .
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