Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] be [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Bankrupt former entrepreneur Alan Bond was found guilty on May 29 of acting dishonestly while attempting in 1987 to organize the rescue of the Perth merchant bank , Rothwells Ltd. ; on May 30 he was sentenced to 2 & 1/2 years in prison . |
2 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
3 | In July 1991 he was transferred to 9 avril Prison in Tunis . |
4 | In February 1992 he was sentenced to four years in prison , which he is currently serving in Sindos Military Prison near Thessaloniki . |
5 | The Election of 1710 gave the Tories a majority of 151 in the Commons ; after the Election of 1713 it was increased to 213 . |
6 | On his return to England he had hoped that Maisie and he would be able to marry , but on October 1 he was posted to 36 Squadron at Seletar on Singapore Island — and sadly , the plans for a wedding had to be deferred . |
7 | In January 1987 he was sentenced to five years and nine months ' imprisonment at Belfast Crown Court for possessing firearms in suspicious circumstances and for possessing petrol bombs . |
8 | On average workers ' pay in Belorussia had dropped by 1922 to 73.5 per cent of the 1913 level , but in 1923 it was to rise to 112.5 per cent . |
9 | Meanwhile on Jan. 23 he was sentenced to five years in prison , after a two-day trial , for forging the document allegedly signed by Papandreou which had featured prominently in the evidence presented against Papandreou . |
10 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
11 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |