Example sentences of "and sentenced to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard evaded the FBI and managed to escape to Russia but Pelton was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 . |
| 2 | So when Calley was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment , he became a hero overnight . |
| 3 | At his trial for acting with Waddell in the murder of Mrs Chipperfield , Gentle was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 4 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 5 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | Pettersson had been arrested in December 1988 and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1989 [ see pp. 36742 ; 36823 ] , but had been acquitted on appeal in October [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 7 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 8 | Klaus Barbie , 77 , the Gestapo commander in Lyon in 1942-44 , who was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] , died in a prison hospital in Lyon on Sept. 25 ; he was cremated and his ashes were flown to Austria … |
| 9 | Among those killed during the coup was Roger Lafontant , the former leader of the Tontons Macoutes , the private army used by the Duvalier regimes to terrorize the population , and sentenced to life imprisonment in July for his part in the January 1991 abortive coup [ see pp. 37955 ; 38332 ] . |
| 10 | Gardiner was convicted and sentenced to life for the killing … and the armed robbery case was not proceeded with . |
| 11 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 12 | He pleaded not guilty , but on 2 May 1989 was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 13 | On February 11 this year , after a two-week trial , Iain was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to detention for life . |
| 14 | They were tried , convicted of treason and sentenced to death , later commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 15 | Barnaby , Rudge 's feeble-minded son , a good-natured half-wit , becomes the dupe of leaders of the Gordon rioters ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) , and as a result is arrested and sentenced to death , but through Varden 's intervention is reprieved and released . |
| 16 | In May 1983 , the Chirwas were tried before a traditional court , convicted of treason and sentenced to death . |
| 17 | They were convicted of ‘ waging war against the state ’ and sentenced to death . |
| 18 | They were convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to death in recent months , with no right of appeal , by a military court set up in April 1991 . |
| 19 | The elder Despenser was left in charge at Bristol , but on the approach of the queen 's forces , who had now been joined by a group of northern magnates led by Henry Percy of Alnwick and Thomas Wake of Liddel , he surrendered and was tried and sentenced to death . |
| 20 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 21 | On 13 December 1983 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death . |
| 22 | — their fear of being burned alive on a barbecue like the young slave who ran away last week and was caught and tried and sentenced to death by this method |
| 23 | He was found guilty and sentenced to death , and , after his appeal to the House of Lords was rejected , he was hanged at Wandsworth prison 3 January 1946 . |
| 24 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
| 25 | They were charged with treason and sentenced to death in 1983 , but following international condemnation the sentences were in 1984 commuted to life imprisonment [ see p. 33018 ] . |
| 26 | Three men who were caught poaching in Lord Darnley 's woods at Ranscombe near Cuxton during the mid 19th century were tried and sentenced to transportation . |
| 27 | Due to the efforts of Bruce Harris and Casa Alianza in Guatemala City and appeals from thousands of Amnesty International supporters the policemen were found guilty of his murder in March 1991 and sentenced to prison terms ranging between 10 and 15 years . |
| 28 | render underprivileged and powerless people more likely to be arrested , convicted , and sentenced to prison , even though the amount of personal damage and injury they cause may be less than the more powerful and privileged cause ; |