Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [adj] year ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1990 a police officer accused of distributing copies of a patriotic song to high-school students was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment by a military court . |
2 | Zhang Jingsheng was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment in December 1989 for ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ crimes during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations . |
3 | On Aug. 26 Inge Viett , 48 , a Red Army Faction ( RAF ) member , was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment for the attempted murder in Paris on Aug. 4 , 1981 , of a French policeman , whom she shot in the neck during a police chase . |
4 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
5 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
6 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
7 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
8 | 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 ] . |
9 | On Feb. 11 Peter Clowes was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and Peter Naylor to 18 months for fraud in connection with the collapse in 1988 of the Barlow Clowes investment management group in which up to around 18,000 investors , many of them elderly , faced large potential losses of their savings . |
10 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
11 | Mohammed Amadou Cissé , for many years Minister of State in charge of security and former President Mathieu Kérékou 's personal adviser and soothsayer , was on Sept. 7 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and fined 3,000,000 francs CFA after having been found guilty of embezzling 3,500 million francs CFA of public funds ( US$1=238.522 francs CFA as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) ; his nine co-defendants received prison terms ranging from three to eight years . |
12 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | A. Askarov , the former first secretary of the Communist Party of Chimkent oblast was sentenced to 11 years ' imprisonment on May 28 for receiving 19 bribes totalling 112,000 roubles . |
15 | Shadreck Ndlovu , a former member of the Zimbabwean paramilitary forces , was sentenced to 42 years ' imprisonment on June 1 , 1990 , after confessing to spying for South Africa on the Zimbabwean Army and the ANC between September 1989 and May 1990 . |
16 | They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard . |
17 | For instance , in November 1990 two brothers in Abbotabad were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and given a heavy fine for having preached about their faith . |
18 | Ruhamanya , the former Economy and Finance Minister and a director of the Petrorwanda oil company , was on Dec. 14 , 1989 , sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and fined RF100,000 , after being found guilty of embezzling RF30,000,000 , and of forgery . |
19 | Of the five other FIS officials accused , one was sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and four to four years each . |
20 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |
21 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
22 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
23 | Together with a woman , Sonam Choedron , ( who was released in April 1991 ) they were tried on 8 February 1991 and reportedly sentenced to four years ' imprisonment . |
24 | The evidence against Sukarno was flimsy and when he was eventually sentenced to four years ' imprisonment in December 1930 one eminent Dutch professor , J.M.J. Schepper , condemned the verdict as violating the great Dutch legal tradition . |
25 | The offender , a Moroccan international footballer , was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for grievous bodily harm . |
26 | 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 ] . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It was not until well into 1917 that the reckoning came ; Malvy was sentenced to five years ' banishment , Bolo Pasha and Mata Hari shot , and Almeyreda found strangled in his cell . |
30 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |