Example sentences of "given a [adj] sentence " in BNC.
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| 1 | One lad , belonging to a respected family , had been given a long sentence although he and local residents emphatically maintained that he was not at the scene of the incident for which he was convicted . |
| 2 | Holden , 48 , of Lyme Close , Knowsley , was given a nine-month sentence , suspended for two years , after admitting three specimen theft offences and asking for 48 others , spanning six months , to be considered . |
| 3 | Mr McDaid 's 19-year-old son , Jason , was given a three-month sentence at Camberwell Magistrate 's Court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to making two hoax calls warning of a bomb in Oxford Street from a kiosk . |
| 4 | Wu Xuecan , a former editor of Renmin Ribao , was given a four-year sentence for circulating a mock-up of the paper following the military crackdown in June 1989 , while student activist Peng Rong received a two-year term for publishing a survey in May 1990 showing that students were depressed . |
| 5 | Ali Idrissi Kaitouni was given a 15-year sentence for writing poems about social injustice and political oppression in Morocco , deemed by the state to constitute a crime against internal security . |
| 6 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 7 | THE family of jailed Briton Michael Wainwright were stunned last night after he was given a 10-year sentence in Iraq . |
| 8 | Mr Braley was also given a two-year sentence for the theft of four bearer share certificates . |
| 9 | Hospital consultant Nigel Cox , 47 , was given a suspended sentence at Winchester Crown Court in September , faces a General Medical Council hearing on Monday . |
| 10 | He was given a suspended sentence and declared a disqualified person by the Jockey Club after it was discovered that a winning horse called Flockton Grey was a ringer . |
| 11 | On the second offence I was given a suspended sentence . |
| 12 | Mann , of Ilsington , Devon , admitted demolishing the chapel and was given a four-month sentence at Plymouth Crown Court . |
| 13 | Two weeks ago he was given a seven-year sentence for two rapes and two serious sexual assaults . |
| 14 | In Beijing , foreign correspondents said that in early March Zhang Yafei , a university graduate , was given a seven-year sentence for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " and " organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary group " during the 1989 demonstrations . |
| 15 | The smooth-talking Noye was given a 14-year sentence for laundering cash from the Brinks-Mat raid . |
| 16 | In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman . |
| 17 | Thus , if convicted , women are far less likely to be given a custodial sentence . |
| 18 | In that year the proportion of convicted adult males given a custodial sentence had reached a low of 15 per cent . |
| 19 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |