Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] life [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 2 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
| 3 | One morning a letter arrived from my literary agent , Michael Sissons , enclosing a handwritten manuscript of some 100,000 words written by a prisoner named David Cooper who , ten years earlier , had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the Luton murder . |
| 4 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 5 | His brother , Mohammed Ali Hamadei , had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in May 1989 for his role in the hijacking of a United States Trans World Airlines aircraft in 1985 [ see p. 36666 ] . |
| 6 | French prisoners also protested in July 1990 at overcrowding and specifically at Mitterrand 's decision on July 27 , 1990 , to release Anis Naccache ( as well as four others connected with his case ) , who had in 1982 been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder in 1980 of the former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar ] [ see pp. 30631-32 ; for links with Lebanese hostage issue see p. 36632 ; for August 1991 murder of Bachtiar see p. 38409 ] . |
| 7 | Doherty had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 for the murder of a British army captain during an ambush in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | Of the individuals acquitted by the Bologna appeal court four had been sentenced to life imprisonment and nine to lesser terms . |
| 9 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 10 | Albert Dryden , who was filmed by a TV camera as he shot dead a council worker , has been sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 11 | A BRITON has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Philippine court for drug smuggling , it was reported today . |
| 12 | Some of those involved in the helicopter escape from Gartree would not have been deterred by life imprisonment . |
| 13 | Actuaries have long been associated with life assurance business and pensions . |