Example sentences of "imprisonment in [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal on Nov. 25 overturned the conviction of Winston Silcott , sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for the murder of Police Constable Keith Blakelock in October 1985 during a violent disturbance at Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham , north London [ see p. 34256 ] . |
| 2 | Doherty had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 for the murder of a British army captain during an ambush in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Also arrested on June 6 was veteran dissident , the Rev. Moon Ik Hwan , 73 , a Presbyterian minister sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment in 1989 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea . |
| 5 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 6 | The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms . |
| 7 | Waddington announced on March 21 , 1990 , that in the light of new submissions from lawyers representing six men — the " Birmingham Six " — sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the bombing of public houses in Birmingham in 1974 [ see pp. 26870 ; 27346 ] , the Devon and Cornwall police would now investigate the matters raised by such submissions , and that following the outcome of the inquiry he would give further consideration as to whether his intervention in the convictions of the six would be justified . |
| 8 | Rancher Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Perreira were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment in 1990 for the killing of Mendes in 1988 . |