Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] sentence [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 2 | Proksch was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment for the murders and for attempted fraud , the ship having been loaded with scrap metal but insured as carrying uranium-processing equipment valued at US$15,000,000 . |
| 3 | In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea . |
| 4 | As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 . |
| 5 | A GLASGOW man was sentenced to nine years in prison for a knife attack . |
| 6 | Each man was sentenced to five years for conspiracy to defraud Lloyd 's of London of £1.8 million , five years concurrently for conspiracy to steal £1.2 million from their firm — for which the £533,000 fine was also imposed — and 12 months concurrently for conspiracy to commit false accounting . |
| 7 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 8 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |
| 9 | A. Askarov , the former first secretary of the Communist Party of Chimkent oblast was sentenced to 11 years ' imprisonment on May 28 for receiving 19 bribes totalling 112,000 roubles . |
| 10 | 24 year old Ashley Forbes , Commander of the unit was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment . |
| 11 | Darli Alves da Silva , a rancher in his early 50s , and his son were sentenced to 19 years in prison for ambushing Mr Mendes at his home in a remote village near Rio Branco . |