Example sentences of "was sentenced to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a statement by Marina that she poisoned Ann Bacon , Thomas was found guilty , but as there was no absolute proof he was sentenced to imprisonment for life . |
| 2 | He was eventually placed in the custody of the Earl Marshal , the Earl of March , while Lyons was sentenced to imprisonment and all his goods were forfeited . |
| 3 | I.C.A.C. decided to postpone inquiries , to avoid collision with another agency which was investigating the affairs of Carrian , but eventually Mr. Turner was charged with , pleaded guilty to and was sentenced to imprisonment for , a total of four charges arising from these transactions . |
| 4 | On 10 April 1985 , Stephen John Price pleaded guilty in Sweden to aggravated drug offences relating to the distribution in Sweden of a substantial quantity ( believed to be about 140 kilogrammes ) of cannabis imported from abroad , and was sentenced to imprisonment for seven years . |
| 5 | In 1982 Mrs Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder , while her husband was convicted as an accessory and given a suspended 18-month jail term . |
| 6 | More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 . |
| 7 | Soon after the Communist takeover , he fell foul of the ultra-Stalinists and , as a Slovak , was sentenced to life imprisonment for ‘ bourgeois nationalism ’ . |
| 8 | Serfaty was sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 9 | Xanana Gusmao , a former resistance leader in East Timor , was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court for , among several charges , trying to set up a separate state . |
| 10 | When he was sentenced to life for killing his former rape victim , the main focus was on the release of the rapist : MP 's fury as revenge murderer gets life WHY WAS THIS MONSTER FREED ? |
| 11 | Phan Chu Trinh was sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | Giap 's wife was sentenced to life imprisonment , and died in jail ; her sister went to the guillotine . |
| 13 | On June 30 , 1989 , former British Army corporal Dennis Beahan was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an abortive attempt to free five Zimbabwean saboteurs ( including the above three ) from prison in June 1988 . |
| 14 | On Dec. 15 , 1989 , Habib Maamar , 27 , from Tunisia , was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special assize court for two bomb attacks in Paris . |
| 15 | On Jan. 24 , 1991 , he was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of torturing three people to death , but acquitted of the murders of the other five people . |
| 16 | Roger Lafontant , a former Interior Minister and alleged leader of the Tontons Macoutes , the much feared and hated Duvalierist private army , was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour on July 30 . |
| 17 | Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1974 for the murder of 12 people , including nine soldiers , killed in an IRA bombing of a coach eight months earlier [ see p. 26458 ] , and she was also given concurrent 30-year prison terms for involvement in explosions at Euston Station in London and at a Ministry of Defence college [ see pp. 26873-74 ] . |
| 18 | The alleged head of the Gambino Mafia " family " , John Gotti , was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on June 23 , having been convicted on April 2 on murder and racketeering charges [ see p. 38858 ] . |
| 19 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 20 | Carter was sentenced to life in December 1990 for the murder of Darren Brook , his cell-mate in Durham Jail . |
| 21 | Coulton , of Ajax Way , Normanby , Middlesbrough , was convicted of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in October last year . |
| 22 | A CROWN Prosecution Service solicitor was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for murdering his wife , a student nurse , with a hammer . |
| 23 | In the year 1170 , Sancie , the widow of Count Gaston V of Béarn , was sentenced to trial by water here , having given birth to a child rather too long after her husband 's death . |
| 24 | When Roger Collins was sentenced to death aged 18 he had no idea what would happen next . |
| 25 | Her father was sentenced to death . |
| 26 | A Catholic priest was sentenced to death in September 1944 for publicly voicing the ‘ Butcher of Murmansk ’ description of Dietl . |
| 27 | Penkovsky was sentenced to death with enormous publicity about his espionage activities . |
| 28 | John Carter was sentenced to death and hanged at Reading Gaol on 3 December 1893 . |
| 29 | Mata Hari , Malay wife of a Scotsman called MacLeod , was sentenced to death in Paris as a spy . |
| 30 | In 1961 , Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for war crimes . |