Example sentences of "year ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 32 | The basic offence in section 1 is that of possessing a firearm without a certificate , an offence which ( despite elements of strict liability ) carries a maximum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 33 | This offence , with its maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , encompasses two classes of weapon : first , an article made or adapted for use as a weapon ; and second , any article intended for such use . |
| 34 | This offence is punishable only with a fine , whereas reckless driving carries a maximum of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 35 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 36 | This offence , with a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , covers a wide range of conduct , from a stolen kiss on the cheek to forced fellatio ( oral sex ) . |
| 37 | Other types of fraud and mistake are held to be insufficient for the offence of rape , and bring the case within the lesser offence of procuring a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse ( section 3 , Sexual Offences Act 1956 , carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 38 | Until 1985 the maximum penalty for indecent assault on a female was two years ' imprisonment , compared with ten years for indecent assault on a male — a legacy of the horror with which homosexuality was viewed , and of the undervaluing of female sexual and physical autonomy — but the maximum penalty for both forms of indecent assault is now ten years . |
| 39 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 40 | They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard . |
| 41 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |
| 42 | After intoning the usual statements about the harm done to the nation 's security , the judge sentenced Blake to a total of 42 years ' imprisonment . |
| 43 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 . |
| 46 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 47 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 48 | The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ . |
| 49 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 50 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 51 | The UK government is concerned about the number of deaths caused by careless driving while unfit because of excessive alcohol consumption , and a recent White Paper , The Road User and the Law , recommends among other things , that this offence should carry obligatory disqualification from driving for at least 2 years , an unlimited fine and a maximum penalty of 5 years ' imprisonment ( Lowry , 1989 ) . |
| 52 | Accountants , lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 53 | It is punishable by a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 54 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 55 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 56 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 57 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 58 | His fate and whereabouts remained unknown until June 1991 , when the Kuwait authorities informed his family that he had been convicted of ‘ collaboration ’ and sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 59 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 60 | Jampel Changchub and Ngawang Phulchung , Tibetan Buddhist monks at Drepung monastery , were both sentenced in 1989 to 19 years ' imprisonment — the longest sentence against prisoners of conscience ever imposed in recent years by the authorities in Tibet . |