Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [adj] labour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 2 | The maximum penalty for mutiny in the Philippines is a life sentence , but in five previous coup attempts the most severe punishment for leaders was 12 years ' hard labour . |
| 3 | He and the others got six months ' hard labour — the repression in 1835 was much gentler than in 1830 because the problem was so limited . |
| 4 | He was given six months ' hard labour after he refused on principle to pay the fine . |
| 5 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 6 | Doctors who performed illegal abortions would be subject to up to 10 years ' hard labour and fines not exceeding $100,000 . |
| 7 | On Dec. 1 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from 20 years ' to 10 years ' hard labour . |
| 8 | Identified by police witnesses as the ‘ Somers Town Boys ’ , the two youths charged with assault received six weeks ' hard labour and a month 's hard labour . |
| 9 | The court of military justice on May 5 confirmed the sentence of three years ' hard labour first passed in absentia in July 1983 against Gen. Saadeddine al-Shazli , the army chief of staff during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 . |
| 10 | He was arrested shortly after his arrival and was detained without trial until September when he was sentenced to ten years ' hard labour for alleged espionage . |
| 11 | Wei Jingsheng was arrested on 29 March and later sentenced to fifteen years ' hard labour . |
| 12 | Theo took a shorter journey - to Wormwood Scrubs , where he did four months ' hard labour . |
| 13 | No longer dependent on cheap labour for competitiveness , many are pushing abroad in even high-technology fields and are doing so , perhaps ironically , to exploit other countries ' cheap labour ( Cantwell and Tolentino , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps , along with bureaucrats doing two weeks ' hard labour . |
| 15 | DMITRY SOKOLOV : aged 21 , he was sentenced to two years ' compulsive labour by a court in Russia on 5 May 1991 for ‘ evasion of regular call-up to active military service ’ under Article 80 of the Criminal Code . |
| 16 | In 1886 he met Oscar Wilde [ q.v. ] ; their friendship developed slowly , but in 1895 , when Wilde was sentenced to two years ' hard labour for homosexual crimes , Ross was his most constant and loyal friend . |
| 17 | After four years ' hard labour , Xerox Corp is understood to have given up on its Ventura Software Inc desktop publishing software business and put the San Diego company on the block . |
| 18 | On Sept. 9 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from life to 20 years ' hard labour . |