Example sentences of "[coord] sentenced [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 2 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 3 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 4 | But any chance that the British ( or Scottish ) Communist Party would form around him was lost when he was again arrested in April 1918 and sentenced to five years with hard labour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 7 | Mr Baig , a Lahore business man , was the subject of a BBC documentary four years ago about a Japanese heroin smuggler who was caught in Amsterdam and sentenced to 10 years ' jail . |
| 8 | He was arrested in November 1984 and sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment in early 1986 on charges of subversion in connection with the Tanjung Priok riots of 1984 [ see pp. 33287 ; 34233 ] . |
| 9 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 10 | In 1984 , when she was 18 , she was arrested , convicted of assault and sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 11 | Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Rodolfo Salas , a leading member of the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist , on May 14 was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to six years ' and a day in prison ; Salas had been arrested in 1986 [ see p. 34872 ] . |
| 13 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | JORGE QUINTANA SILVA : a 29-year-old mathematics student at Havana University , he was convicted in November 1990 of ‘ disrespect ’ and sentenced to three years ‘ restricted liberty ’ . |
| 15 | Todor Zhivkov , 81 , Bulgaria 's communist leader from 1954 until November 1989 , was convicted of misappropriation of state property and embezzlement on Sept. 4 and sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | After being returned to the USA he was convicted of drug trafficking , money laundering , and racketeering charges in April 1992 [ see p. 38857 ] , and sentenced to 40 years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | Prisoner of conscience Yndamiro Restano , president of an unofficial opposition group known as the Harmony Movement , was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment in May ( see Worldwide Appeal , pages 20–21 ) . |
| 18 | With the assistance of Archbishop Romero — who was subsequently assassinated — she found her son , who was tried and sentenced to 30 years in prison . |
| 19 | He was on the Sûreté list and was arrested in November 1930 and sentenced to 12 years penal servitude in September 1931 . |
| 20 | BRAZIL : Darly Alves da Silva , the man convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison for ordering the murder of Brazilian trade unionist and environmental leader Chico Mendes , had his conviction annulled by the Justice Tribunal in Acra on 28 February . |
| 21 | They were convicted of armed robberies and sentenced to 15 years and 14 years respectively . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |
| 24 | The student is arrested , tried and sentenced to 20 years . |