Example sentences of "been sentenced to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men , convicted on espionage charges , had been sentenced to 15-year prison terms in 1987 . |
| 2 | A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery . |
| 3 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 4 | The human rights organization Amnesty International on Dec. 10 issued a report on Myanma listing some 200 people arrested in the country during the first seven months of 1991 , nearly 40 of whom had been sentenced to long prison terms after " blatantly unfair " trials . |
| 5 | A regional Communist Party leader before the 1989 revolution which overthrew his father , he had been sentenced to long prison sentences for murder ( later overturned ) and other crimes [ see pp. 37725 ; 38306 ] . |