Example sentences of "sentenced to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Soon after the Communist takeover , he fell foul of the ultra-Stalinists and , as a Slovak , was sentenced to life imprisonment for ‘ bourgeois nationalism ’ . |
| 7 | A New Zealand man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an English tourist , Monica Cantwell . |
| 8 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Howard evaded the FBI and managed to escape to Russia but Pelton was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 . |
| 11 | At any moment , I thought , these people will remove their green hats to reveal powdered wigs , and I will be sentenced to life imprisonment or a job with British Rail . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So when Calley was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment , he became a hero overnight . |
| 14 | The former Exxon security consultant is also expected to be sentenced to life in a separate case for kidnapping and murder . |
| 15 | At his trial for acting with Waddell in the murder of Mrs Chipperfield , Gentle was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 18 | A CROWN Prosecution Service solicitor was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of murdering his student nurse wife . |
| 19 | Sentenced to life |
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| 21 | Serfaty was sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | the release on licence of offenders sentenced to life imprisonment , and the grant of parole to those serving determinate sentences ( both on the advice of the Parole Board ) ; |
| 25 | There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 26 | Phan Chu Trinh was sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 27 | Giap 's wife was sentenced to life imprisonment , and died in jail ; her sister went to the guillotine . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 30 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |