Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster of a private school for boys , who was jailed for twelve years for sex offences against eight of his pupils , has failed in his challenge against the convictions . |
| 2 | The gunman , who was jailed for 18 months , fired into the ground when Sgt Forth , then working in CID , and another officer arrived at the scene . |
| 3 | Tilghman , who was jailed for five years , fined £3,250 , reduced to the ranks and dismissed the service , is now serving his jail term in America . |
| 4 | But the officers ' dedication led to the conviction of Carl Dodds , of Blackfell , Washington , who was jailed for six years at Durham Crown Court last December for robbery . |
| 5 | Mrs Lock , of Formby , Merseyside , said the driver , who was jailed for two years , served eight months . |
| 6 | Who was jailed for passing secrets to the Guardian in 1984 ? |
| 7 | Martin Houston from South Link in Andersontown who was jailed for seven years last October for a horrendous catalogue of crimes against young boys will be eligible for home leave in just six months time . |
| 8 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 9 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 10 | She was married to Dr Neil 's captain who was killed in nasty Africa , as poor Dr Neil nearly was . ’ |
| 11 | Two of these were from one patient with newly diagnosed and radiologically active terminal ileal Crohn 's disease who was treated with elemental diet for four weeks . |
| 12 | Although we could not confirm this finding statistically , none of the small number of our patients aged less than 50 ( n=18 ) who was treated with ursodeoxycholic acid , developed recurrence . |
| 13 | At the end of May 1989 committal proceedings began in respect of PC Cherry who was charged with unlawful wounding . |
| 14 | The fourth reported death was that of Agit Salman , a taxi driver who was detained on 27 April and died in Adana Police Headquarters on 29 April after two days ' interrogation . |
| 15 | A July editorial by William Rees-Mogg ‘ Breaking a butterfly on a wheel ’ was to help free Jagger and Richards , not so Frazer , or John Hopkins , who was sentenced to nine months for marijuana offences on 1 June . |
| 16 | Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal . |
| 17 | The Baroness 's son Marcus Wilberforce ( top ) , who was sentenced to eighteen months ; above , Askham Grange prison |
| 18 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 19 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 20 | The eight included the former governor of Shaba province , Koyagialo Ngbase te Geremgbo , who was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude . |
| 21 | McKee , who was sentenced to 20 years for firearms offences , was recaptured in the Republic three months after escaping . |
| 22 | The crushing defeat of the NDP raised questions as to the political future of Haynes — once commonly described as " the second most powerful man in Barbados " — who was beaten into third place in his own constituency . |
| 23 | It was mentioned by many of the Greek philosophers and writers , including Aristotle , Plato , and Seneca , and eventually drove pleasure-loving Epicurus , who was plagued by gonococcal stricture , to suicide . |
| 24 | The ruling threatened to undermine other Iran-contra convictions , including that of John Poindexter , North 's former superior at the National Security Council , who was convicted of five felonies in April 1990 and who , like North , had testified to Congress under a grant of limited immunity . |
| 25 | A social worker who was sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters , has won his appeal against dismissal . |
| 26 | The former Cowdenbeath manager , John Brownlie , who was sacked in controversial circumstances last May , will be making his case for unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh next week . |
| 27 | Knowles , who was sacked after 14 years with BR , was fined £150 plus £30 costs after admitting being drunk at work . |
| 28 | Ireland 's representation has already been halved due to first round defeats by Antrim 's Mark Winters and Ardoyne 's Eamon Magee who was stopped with 40 seconds to go in the final round . |
| 29 | A paralysed Nigerian man , who was flown to this country for life saving treatment , has left the National Health Service with bills totalling almost sixty thousand pounds . |
| 30 | Anselm himself remembered from his youth , and in old age told his companions , a story of a Roman judge in the time of Pope Leo IX , who was condemned to eternal punishment because he had incurred the hostility of saints Agnes and Laurence by depriving their churches in Rome of a garden and three houses respectively . |