Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | They claim government changes are contributing towards prison disorder . |
| 2 | Bourke had been discharged from prison on 4 July 1966 and was living in rented accommodation in Perryn Road about a-mile away from the prison . |
| 3 | The only procedural defect alleged in M. 's appeal is that the committal order was not served on M. personally , or , alternatively , that he was not served until 3 July , nearly a month after he had been committed to prison . |
| 4 | Similarly , in the report of ‘ a sex beast nicknamed ‘ The Acne Kid ’ ’ ( Star ) , who boasted to the victim that he had just been freed from prison and said : ‘ I 've served time for rape before ’ , speculation about this possible link was scotched quickly . |
| 5 | Kiranjit Ahluwalia , jailed for murdering her husband after suffering ten years of violence , has had her sentence commuted to manslaughter and has been freed from prison . |
| 6 | Kiranjit Ahluwalia , jailed for murdering her husband after suffering ten years of violence , has had her sentence commuted to manslaughter and has been freed from prison . |
| 7 | According to the Washington Post of Jan. 16 , 1990 , more than 800 people including university students had been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for " counter-revolutionary crimes " , including such acts as putting up posters . |
| 8 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 9 | A similar group of NUFLVN guerrillas had been sentenced to prison terms in late 1987 [ see p. 35902 ] . |
| 10 | A human rights report published by the US State Department in late January 1991 criticized the Chinese government 's record , and estimated that 1,000 people had been sentenced to prison or re-education since the Tiananmen Square crackdown . |
| 11 | Two army officers had been sentenced to prison terms for an attack on unarmed demonstrators in Santiago Atitlán in December 1990 , when 16 were killed and 24 wounded [ see p. 37912 ] , and another army officer was awaiting trial for the murder in September 1990 of anthropologist Myrna Mack [ see p. 37707 ] . |
| 12 | Of a further 2,217 people who had been charged in court by March 12 , over half had been sentenced to prison terms . |
| 13 | The International Herald Tribune of April 4-5 reported that 17 Syrian human rights activists had recently been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years . |
| 14 | Some centres are connected to prisons , others are separate ; some are run by volunteers , others are sponsored by the Government . ’ |
| 15 | Even if you 're dying in prison , the screws do n't want to know . |
| 16 | 'Right , I 'll help you — you 're having an affair with a man' — I said no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — nearly there ; ‘ you 're going to prison for something or other ’ — no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — well not quite the lollipop lady but a lady all the same . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're not going to the Moon , you 're going to prison ! |
| 18 | yeah , they 're just , they 're just disposed of , they 're sent into prison , they 're , the , the prisons er |
| 19 | People also seem to get this impression that if you 're released from prison the first thing you want is sex . |
| 20 | There are ships on the river which are used as prisons . |
| 21 | The jail trip prize has been offered by prison governor Robin Halward . |
| 22 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ More criminals are going to prison than ever before , and the unit of resource has been significantly reduced . ’ |
| 24 | If he is and if he can prove that Luke and Sonny and the other three were the guilty ones , then he wo n't be goin' to prison alone . |
| 25 | He was shocked to be recalled to prison for the previous offences . |
| 26 | The human rights organization Amnesty International was supporting his case , claiming that he was suffering " life-threatening " diseases which could not be treated in prison . |
| 27 | Following the breakdown of the Algiers talks in early 1989 the Ministry of Justice announced on May 9 , 1989 , that ETA prisoners and others held for terrorist offences were to be dispersed to prisons throughout the country and to have their separate status and special concessions withdrawn [ see also p. 36628 ] . |
| 28 | If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court . |
| 29 | On 11 May 1992 the wife , Frances Butler , gave notice to the husband , Robert Butler , to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court for breaches of an order dated 12 September 1991 prohibiting him from entering or visiting premises where she lived and from assaulting , molesting or harassing her . |
| 30 | But the next day the NIRC ordered three London dockers who had defied an order against blacking made on 12 June to be committed to prison for contempt of court . |