Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | A term of x years imprisonment to be served and y years suspended might be imposed , when previously x would have been thought sufficient . |
| 2 | This is the most serious of the offences in the Act , and is triable only on indictment and attracts a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment . |
| 3 | At the bottom of the ladder , simple sexual assault carries a maximum of ten years imprisonment . |
| 4 | One year ago he was sentenced to a term of fifteen years imprisonment . |
| 5 | Secondly , in accordance with the Wolfenden recommendations Clause 2 of the Bill set a penalty of five years imprisonment for the offence of buggery committed by a man over 21 with a consenting youth over 16 . |
| 6 | ( S. ) 468 , where a sentence of four years imprisonment was upheld for robbery of a taxi driver who was threatened with a lighted cigarette and a knife , although he did not suffer injuries comparable with those suffered by the victim in this case . |
| 7 | Contempt carries a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment , and is the only serious crime in English law which is triable by judges alone . |
| 8 | Creating a false market in shares carries a penalty of seven years imprisonment under Section 47 of the Financial Services Act . |
| 9 | He knew the wording by heart : Attempt to export equipment with intent to evade prohibition then in farce by the Provision of the Export Control and Goods Order and C & E Management Act ( Section 68/2 ) , 1979 … and he knew that the offence carried a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment … |
| 10 | Sentence : seven years imprisonment with three years imprisonment concurrent for the firearms offence . |
| 11 | Detention in young offender institution — offender aged sixteen pleading guilty to offence punishable with fourteen years imprisonment or more — whether wrong in principle to impose sentence of twelve months ' detention in a young offender institution |
| 12 | The spokeswoman said : ‘ The Russian embassy in Baghdad has confirmed that both men were sentenced on June 6 to eight years imprisonment for illegal entry . |
| 13 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 14 | One of ETA 's senior leaders , José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea " Josu Ternera " , was on Nov. 26 sentenced by a court in Paris to 10 years imprisonment for membership of a terrorist organization , and banned from residence in France for five years after his release . |
| 15 | Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal . |
| 16 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Sigsworth to three years imprisonment . |
| 17 | They were both old lags and were sentenced each to ten years imprisonment . |
| 18 | In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] . |
| 19 | In 1828 , after a period when cattle stealing had been rarely and lightly punished , the Supreme Court in session at Matara convicted a number of men , including some headmen , and sentenced each to five years imprisonment and two hundred lashes . |
| 20 | The Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has sentenced David James , former curator of Islamic manuscripts at the Chester Beatty Library , Dublin , to five years imprisonment on thirty-six charges of theft , carried out between 1983 and 1989 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 17 , April 1992 , p.2 ) . |
| 21 | The new law lays down penalties ranging from a £2,000 fine to five years imprisonment , with the heaviest penalties for those who actually cause pollution . |
| 22 | The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation . |
| 23 | 24 year old Ashley Forbes , Commander of the unit was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment . |
| 24 | He was subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment . |
| 25 | Act 1974 is liable to unlimited fines and/or up to two years imprisonment after conviction by a Crown Court . |
| 26 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said this afternoon , any passenger who encourages and any driver who recklessly drives causing injury or damage is guilty of reckless driving , which was renamed dangerous driving in the Road Traffic Act 1991 and is liable to two years imprisonment . |
| 27 | Today they were each sentenced to four years imprisonment . |
| 28 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Mr Justice Jowitt . |
| 29 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults . |
| 30 | A person committing an offence under s.47 is , on indictment , liable to up to seven years imprisonment , or an unlimited fine , or both . |