Example sentences of "[adj] after being [vb pp] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two senior police officers were sentenced to prison terms of more than 110 years each after being found guilty of charges of murder , criminal association and the forging of documents in connection with an undercover operation in the 1980s against the Basque separatist group ETA . |
| 2 | The former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad , was sentenced in Dhaka to 10 years ' " rigorous imprisonment " on June 12 after being found guilty by a special tribunal of illegally possessing firearms . |
| 3 | The Interior Minister , Julio César Sánchez , resigned on Dec. 21 after being held responsible in the press for the low turnout in the elections . |
| 4 | Georgi Atanasov , Prime Minister in 1986-90 , and Stoyan Ovcharov , Minister of the Economy and Planning in 1987-89 , were given prison sentences of 10 and nine years respectively on Nov. 3 after being found guilty of embezzlement [ see p. 39151 for opening of trial in October ] . |
| 5 | An air force officer and a truck driver were executed on Feb. 3 after being found guilty by a military court of spying for Israel . |
| 6 | George Chang , chairman of the US-based World United Formosans for Independence , was sentenced to 10 years in prison on June 8 after being found guilty of sedition and attempted murder . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Forty-year-old Rudman , who walked out of a psychiatric hospital in Leicester last August 1 after being allowed unescorted into the grounds , was recaptured by gardai at a farm in Liscahane , Ardfert , Co Kerry , on August 28 . |
| 9 | Habib Bourguiba was declared President-for-Life by the National Assembly in 1985 , but was removed in November 1987 after being declared unfit for office on grounds of ill-health and senility . |
| 10 | Two journalists on the opposition weekly Liberté , Jacques Kacou , the editor , and Georges Koffi , author of an article attacking President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , were detained on June 5 and sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on July 23 after being found guilty of insulting the head of state . |
| 11 | Another 11 UN personnel were released on Dec. 20 after being held captive for two days ( and threatened with execution , according to a UN spokesman ) by Khmer Rouge guerrillas in the eastern province of Kratie . |
| 12 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |