Example sentences of "been sentenced [prep] [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
2 | One morning a letter arrived from my literary agent , Michael Sissons , enclosing a handwritten manuscript of some 100,000 words written by a prisoner named David Cooper who , ten years earlier , had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the Luton murder . |
3 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
4 | French prisoners also protested in July 1990 at overcrowding and specifically at Mitterrand 's decision on July 27 , 1990 , to release Anis Naccache ( as well as four others connected with his case ) , who had in 1982 been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder in 1980 of the former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar ] [ see pp. 30631-32 ; for links with Lebanese hostage issue see p. 36632 ; for August 1991 murder of Bachtiar see p. 38409 ] . |
5 | A BRITON has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Philippine court for drug smuggling , it was reported today . |
6 | His brother , Mohammed Ali Hamadei , had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in May 1989 for his role in the hijacking of a United States Trans World Airlines aircraft in 1985 [ see p. 36666 ] . |
7 | Doherty had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 for the murder of a British army captain during an ambush in Northern Ireland . |
8 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
9 | Morag Taylor , who plotted to murder her husband has been sentenced to community service after his pleas to the judge not to imprison her . |
10 | 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 ] . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | A similar group of NUFLVN guerrillas had been sentenced to prison terms in late 1987 [ see p. 35902 ] . |