Example sentences of "who [verb] be imprison " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appeal to William was signed by only one bishop , Compton of London , and was not supported by the seven who had been imprisoned in the Tower . |
| 2 | In 1926 Fenner Brockway , who had been imprisoned during the First World War , wrote in a newspaper article : ‘ The object of penal reformers should not be to reform the prison system but to abolish it ’ ( Priestley 1988 : 175 ) . |
| 3 | Mortimer was a Marcher lord and a Contrariant who had been imprisoned in the Tower and threatened with death ; he escaped to Paris in 1323 where he became the centre of a group of exiles and fugitives . |
| 4 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 5 | He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country . |
| 6 | Willys , who had been imprisoned in 1654 and 1655 had in fact reached an understanding with John Thurloe [ q.v . ] , |
| 7 | Amongst those arrested was Kim Keun Tae , an internationally recognized dissident who had been imprisoned from 1985 to 1988 , who was detained on May 13 , accused of organizing the May 9 protests . |
| 8 | José Primo Esono , an activist in the illegal opposition group the Progress party ( Partido del Progreso ) , who had been imprisoned for his part in a coup plot against the regime in 1988 [ see p. 36200 ] , was released in February 1990 . |
| 9 | A dispute over the conflicting constitutional rights of press freedom ( enshrined within the First Amendment ) and the right of a defendant to a fair trial ( the Sixth Amendment ) arose from an attempt by Cable News Network ( CNN ) to broadcast tapes which it had obtained of telephone calls made by the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega , who had been imprisoned in the USA since January 1990 awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges . |
| 10 | The remains of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty , the Roman Catholic Primate who had been imprisoned in 1949-56 and exiled in 1971 , were returned to Hungary from Mariazell in Austria and reinterred on May 4 at Esztergom , 16 years after his death . |
| 11 | Roger Cooper , who had been imprisoned in Iran since 1985 , was released in April 1991 [ see p. 38169 ] . |
| 12 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 13 | Kuwait also protested about Iraq 's failure to release Kuwaitis and members of other nationalities who had been imprisoned since the Gulf crisis , or to allow Red Cross representatives to visit prisoners . |
| 14 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 15 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 16 | The agreement paved the way for the opening of talks on Jan. 11 , 1993 , and was followed by a goodwill gesture on Dec. 24 in which the armed forces released from military detention three generals and 40 other officers who had been imprisoned for involvement in coup attempts . |
| 17 | The torches beam picked out a notice telling of the Covenanters who had been imprisoned there three hundred and fifty years before and another commemorating the once famous Scots buried under the damp , heavy earth . |
| 18 | These were voiced most clearly by the radical priest John Ball , whose record of inflammatory preaching had brought him into conflict with the authorities as early as 1366 , and who had been imprisoned earlier in 1381 for his hostility to the Pope and the prelates ( 11 , p.372 ) . |
| 19 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |