Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the study should enable prison managers , policy-makers and Parliament to monitor prisons more efficiently and to plan for prison reform more effectively . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I want to work in prison reform , ’ she said . |
| 3 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 4 | As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison . |
| 5 | Two men who helped George Blake , a Soviet spy , to escape from prison in 1966 could become the first British authors in recent history to have royalties seized by the courts . |
| 6 | After his recapture , Lekule alleged that Prince Mfanasibili Dlamini , a prominent member of the royal family found guilty of high treason in November 1987 [ see p. 36008 ] , had been plotting to escape from prison . |
| 7 | A decision announced by the government on Dec. 28 to free from prison a dozen former officers connected with the 1967-74 military dictatorship , was revoked at an emergency Cabinet meeting on Dec. 30 . |
| 8 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said , in his wide range of recommendations Lord Justice Woolf rejected a special measure to deal with prison riots and disturbances . |
| 9 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 10 | When Richard Baxter returned to the court in June for the sentence , he was fined five hundred Marks and ordered to remain in prison until he paid . |
| 11 | Apparently , 15 and 16-year-olds have to remain in prison while the Home Office argues with the Department of Health over what is to happen to them . |
| 12 | The POA is also concerned about plans to draft in prison officers to help Group 4 security guards if there is any trouble at the Wolds . |
| 13 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 14 | The average black boy is more likely to go to prison than university . |
| 15 | In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine . |
| 16 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 17 | The depths its members will sink to were illustrated by the attempted suppression of documents concerning arms sales to Iraq — to cover their own duplicity and allow innocent men to go to prison . |
| 18 | Edward was Craig 's friend , surely he would n't have allowed Craig to go to prison in his place ? |
| 19 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 20 | I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet . |
| 21 | She freely admitted that when she was shoplifting she was , in a way , hoping to go to prison . |
| 22 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 23 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 24 | So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan . |
| 25 | Just because he wanted to go to prison , they did not want to send him there . |
| 26 | He had to go to prison because of that , and then we all came back to England . |
| 27 | Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all . |
| 28 | Then there is the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , who is willing to go to prison for his views . |
| 29 | Apart from anything else , if prisons were places where criminals had to work , fewer of them would want to go to prison . |
| 30 | ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? ) |