Example sentences of "be sentence [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] .
2 A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving .
3 Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl .
4 She was sentenced to two years probation .
5 On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ .
6 Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal .
7 24 year old Ashley Forbes , Commander of the unit was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment .
8 He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Mr Justice Jowitt .
9 He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults .
10 He was sentenced to three years house arrest , was released in August 1956 , and lived till his death in 1967 , under guard in his estate .
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