Example sentences of "be sentence [prep] 10 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 2 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 3 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 4 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 5 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 6 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
| 7 | SEOUL ( AP ) — The Rev Moon Ik Hwan , 71 , who made an unauthorised trip to North Korea in March to discuss reunification , was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding an enemy power . |
| 8 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 10 | He was tried there under cross-border legislation and was sentenced to 10 years for the break-out . |
| 11 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sedition , including remarks made abroad after leaving Taiwan . |
| 13 | Michael Milken , the former head of the " junk bond " department at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc , was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Nov. 21 , after pleading guilty to violating federal securities and tax laws . |
| 14 | The four-year investigation into former " junk-bond king " , Michael Milken ended in November 1990 when he was sentenced to 10 years in prison [ see p. 37848 ] . |
| 15 | On Nov. 29 Nguyen Dan Que , the sole Vietnamese member of the human rights organization Amnesty International , was sentenced to 20 years in prison , and Nguyen Van Thuan was sentenced to 10 years , when a Ho Chi Minh City court found them both guilty of distributing anti-government leaflets and of establishing an organization " aimed at overthrowing the revolutionary administration " . |
| 16 | On Feb. 11 Peter Clowes was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and Peter Naylor to 18 months for fraud in connection with the collapse in 1988 of the Barlow Clowes investment management group in which up to around 18,000 investors , many of them elderly , faced large potential losses of their savings . |
| 17 | George Chang , chairman of the US-based World United Formosans for Independence , was sentenced to 10 years in prison on June 8 after being found guilty of sedition and attempted murder . |