Example sentences of "be sentenced [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention . |
2 | The US Army on Dec. 4 revealed that a US soldier serving in Germany had been sentenced to 34 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Iraq and Jordan during the Gulf War . |
3 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
4 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
5 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
6 | A barmaid who cudgelled her landlord boyfriend to death with a beer flagon has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ( suspended ) . |
7 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
8 | A BESSBROOK man has been sentenced to six months in prison after he was overpayed a sum of £5,666.32 by the DHS . |
9 | Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months . |
10 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
11 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
12 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
13 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
14 | A PUBLICAN who set fire to his car and tried to claim insurance has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service . |
15 | In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] . |
16 | MAHA Sa'ad-ul-Din Banat , a 35-year-old Syrian national and mother of four who had been sentenced to 200 lashes by the Shari'a Court of Expedient Affairs in Riyadh on 10 March 1992 , received the lashes in four instalments in a one month period between April and May . |
17 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
18 | 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 ] . |
19 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
20 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
21 | He was jailed for two and a half years , to run consecutive to his present term , which means he has been sentenced to 21 years since 1973 . |
22 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
23 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
24 | A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving . |
25 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
26 | A YOUTH who frightened a teenager into handing over his watch has been sentenced to 12 months detention . |
27 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
28 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
29 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
30 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |