Example sentences of "sentence to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 2 | If a son or daughter commits a crime and is sentenced to imprisonment , the court will not allow an anxious father or mother to take their place , so how can it be that my sin can be taken by another ? |
| 3 | Around the turn of the century about twelve per cent of persons sentenced to imprisonment were released under this law . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The story goes that trains from distant towns had special coaches attached ( or there were even dedicated special trains ) to bring those sentenced to imprisonment for serious offences to Huntsville . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the mid-1930s , when the policies were taking shape , the numbers sentenced to imprisonment had declined , the annual prison intake having fallen by more than two thirds between 1910 and 1934 . |
| 8 | More frequent criminal offending led to more people being sentenced to imprisonment , although not pro-rata because of the distinction between indictable and non-indictable offences . |
| 9 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 10 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 11 | There the higher number of offenders sentenced to imprisonment , augmented by a burgeoning population of unconvicted persons remanded in custody awaiting trial , regularly exceeded the capacity of the prison system to contain them in acceptable conditions . |
| 12 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He pleaded not guilty , but on 2 May 1989 was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) This section applies to offences — ( a ) for which the sentence is fixed by law ; or ( b ) for which a person of 21 years of age or over ( not previously convicted ) may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five years … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment for life … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 18 | ( i ) When a prisoner is sentenced to imprisonment for life , within a short time the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice are invited by the Secretary of State to express their views on the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence . |
| 19 | An arrestable offence is defined as one for which a person may by virtue of any statute be sentenced to imprisonment for at least five years , or an attempt to commit such an offence . |
| 20 | Zhivkov , whose trial opened in February 1991 [ see p. 38017 ] , was the first of eastern Europe 's disgraced communist leaders to be sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 21 | The six condemned to death , with another six who were sentenced to life imprisonment , went to the Supreme Court , whose five judges unanimously dismissed their appeals . |
| 22 | The six sentenced to life imprisonment are David Abu Samu , Francis Massaquoi , Amara Alieu Tarawalie , Joseph Abiodun Williams , Hassan Morlai Conteh and Harunda Vandi Jimmy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | THE MAN sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the Swedish prime minister , Olof Palme , was acquitted yesterday after the appeal court overturned the verdict against him . |
| 26 | Soon after the Communist takeover , he fell foul of the ultra-Stalinists and , as a Slovak , was sentenced to life imprisonment for ‘ bourgeois nationalism ’ . |
| 27 | A New Zealand man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an English tourist , Monica Cantwell . |
| 28 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 29 | Mr Brian Hawkins , 26 , was a friend and former flatmate of Danny Gardiner , a drug dealer sentenced to life in prison two weeks ago for the murder of Alan ‘ Chalkey ’ White whose body was found in a lake in Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Howard evaded the FBI and managed to escape to Russia but Pelton was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 . |