Example sentences of "sentenced [prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Neil Ormerod , 19 , from Bromsgrove , was also sentenced to nine months ' detention .
2 Chen Wan-chen , founder of the pro-independence Organization for Taiwan Nation-Building , was sentenced to 46 months ' imprisonment on March 16 after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " under the controversial Article 100 of the Criminal Code [ see p. 38765 for Chen 's arrest in February ] .
3 In 1990 a police officer accused of distributing copies of a patriotic song to high-school students was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment by a military court .
4 Zhang Jingsheng was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment in December 1989 for ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ crimes during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations .
5 On Aug. 26 Inge Viett , 48 , a Red Army Faction ( RAF ) member , was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment for the attempted murder in Paris on Aug. 4 , 1981 , of a French policeman , whom she shot in the neck during a police chase .
6 Fripp , 25 , of King George Road , Ware , who admitted burglary and two charges of handling , was sentenced to 180 hours ' community service .
7 In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ .
8 He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison .
9 A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] .
10 The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years .
11 He was arrested in November 1984 and sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment in early 1986 on charges of subversion in connection with the Tanjung Priok riots of 1984 [ see pp. 33287 ; 34233 ] .
12 On Feb. 11 Peter Clowes was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and Peter Naylor to 18 months for fraud in connection with the collapse in 1988 of the Barlow Clowes investment management group in which up to around 18,000 investors , many of them elderly , faced large potential losses of their savings .
13 Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] .
14 Mohammed Amadou Cissé , for many years Minister of State in charge of security and former President Mathieu Kérékou 's personal adviser and soothsayer , was on Sept. 7 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and fined 3,000,000 francs CFA after having been found guilty of embezzling 3,500 million francs CFA of public funds ( US$1=238.522 francs CFA as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) ; his nine co-defendants received prison terms ranging from three to eight years .
15 A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 .
16 Mr Baig , a Lahore business man , was the subject of a BBC documentary four years ago about a Japanese heroin smuggler who was caught in Amsterdam and sentenced to 10 years ' jail .
17 A. Askarov , the former first secretary of the Communist Party of Chimkent oblast was sentenced to 11 years ' imprisonment on May 28 for receiving 19 bribes totalling 112,000 roubles .
18 Shadreck Ndlovu , a former member of the Zimbabwean paramilitary forces , was sentenced to 42 years ' imprisonment on June 1 , 1990 , after confessing to spying for South Africa on the Zimbabwean Army and the ANC between September 1989 and May 1990 .
19 For that offence , he was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment .
20 On May 20 Joseph Bendouga , leader of the opposition Democratic Movement for Renewal and Evolution in Central Africa ( MDREC ) , was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment on charges of sending an " insulting and offensive " open letter to President André Kolingba .
21 France of Brentwood , Essex , admitted theft and was sentenced to six months ' jail , suspended for two years .
22 They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard .
23 For instance , in November 1990 two brothers in Abbotabad were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and given a heavy fine for having preached about their faith .
24 Ruhamanya , the former Economy and Finance Minister and a director of the Petrorwanda oil company , was on Dec. 14 , 1989 , sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and fined RF100,000 , after being found guilty of embezzling RF30,000,000 , and of forgery .
25 Of the five other FIS officials accused , one was sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and four to four years each .
26 He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively .
27 A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party .
28 AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal .
29 MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) .
30 Together with a woman , Sonam Choedron , ( who was released in April 1991 ) they were tried on 8 February 1991 and reportedly sentenced to four years ' imprisonment .
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