Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 32 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 33 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 34 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 35 | James Terry Roach , electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 , had been sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was 17 years old . |
| 36 | Phan Boi Chau had been sentenced to death . |
| 37 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 38 | In America a lady had been sentenced to death for hiring an assassin to shoot her father and her stepfather . |
| 39 | Kadour , who held French refugee status , had been sentenced to death in absentia following a coup attempt in July 1971 ( see pp. 24797-98 ; 25156 ) . |
| 40 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 41 | Bazoft had been sentenced to death on March 10 after a three-day trial . |
| 42 | Kim had been sentenced to death at her trial in April 1989 after confessing to having planted a bomb on a South Korean airliner which disappeared near the coast of Burma in November 1987 with the loss of all 115 passengers and crew [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 43 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 44 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 45 | Azhar had been sentenced to death in 1982 for his part in the 1981 hijacking by IIRC guerrillas of a domestic airliner to Thailand [ see pp. 32256-57 ] . |
| 46 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 47 | He had been sentenced to death in March by a Palestinian military tribunal sitting in Sana'a , Yemen . |
| 48 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 49 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 50 | Touvier had been sentenced to death in absentia in 1946 and 1947 but was pardoned in 1971 . |
| 51 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . ] . |
| 54 | A similar group of NUFLVN guerrillas had been sentenced to prison terms in late 1987 [ see p. 35902 ] . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 ] . |
| 57 | Of a further 2,217 people who had been charged in court by March 12 , over half had been sentenced to prison terms . |
| 58 | The mother , aged 22 , of Wolverhampton , had been stabbed to death and her husband , aged 30 , was hanging by an electric cable from a loft beam . |
| 59 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 60 | In a ‘ desperate struggle in a drunken crowd ’ a police officer had been stabbed to death in Wilmer Gardens , Hoxton , said to be ‘ a low neighbourhood infested by a very dangerous class ’ . |