Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11 June 1992 the husband was arrested at the wife 's house and on 12 June Judge Woodford , finding him guilty of breaches of the injunctions of 12 September 1991 and 12 May 1992 , sentenced him to eight months ' imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 2 | Mr. Butler was sentenced to eight months ' imprisonment . |
| 3 | Sentence : 30 months ' imprisonment . |
| 4 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 5 | Moses Ali was sentenced to 30 months ' imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons on Jan. 7 . |
| 6 | The bankrupt was sentenced to 12 months ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | He was sentenced to a total of 12 months ' imprisonment for the summary and either way offences and the suspended sentence was activated consecutively . |
| 8 | Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 allowed a magistrates ' court to pass an aggregate of 12 months ' imprisonment for two or more either way offences . |
| 9 | Sentence : 12 months ' imprisonment in each case . |
| 10 | Another member of the García Meza administration in 1980-81 , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , was on March 22 sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment by a court in Miami on two drug-trafficking charges ( for conclusion of trial on Jan. 9 , see p. 37958 ) . |
| 11 | The two others , Daniel Santovenia Fernández and Pedro de la Caridad Alvárez Pedroso , had their sentences commuted to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 . |
| 13 | On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 15 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 16 | The officer in command of a military unit which in July 1986 burned to death a photographer , Rodrigo Rojas de Negri , and severely burned his colleague , Carmen Quintana Arancibia [ see p. 34985 ] was in August 1989 condemned to 300 days ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 17 | Ali Haxhiu , a 45-year-old Albanian refugee in the village of Sazli , was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment in May 1991 after making a ‘ V ’ for victory sign in the presence of two policemen in a café . |
| 18 | In the course of the sequestration proceedings in the sheriff court he was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment for contempt of court , because he had entered the licensed premises and interfered with the management thereof after giving an undertaking that he would not do so . |
| 19 | Radio Monte Carlo reported on Aug. 29 that Syria had released Nureddin al-Atasi , President from February 1966 until his overthrow by the 1970 bloodless coup which brought Assad to power , after 22 years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 . |
| 21 | The Court ruled by 11 votes to two that the offence had been abolished by presidential decree in 1986 — when Aquino dismantled much of the coercive apparatus of former President Ferdinand Marcos shortly after taking power — but stated that the government could file charges of " simple rebellion " , a lesser offence which carried a lighter penalty of 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 22 | Werner Lotze , 38 , a Red Army Faction extremist , was sentenced on Jan. 31 by the Bavarian state court to 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | The Kirghiz Supreme Court in Bishkek ( formerly Frunze ) on March 19 sentenced Ataman Tashaliyev , a former deputy to the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet , to 12 years ' imprisonment for leading the June 1990 pogrom against Uzbek residents of the town of Uzgen . |
| 24 | In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 . |
| 25 | A Palestinian , Hafez Kassem Dalkamoni , and a Jordanian , Abdel Fatar Ghadanfar , were sentenced on June 3 by a Frankfurt court to 15 and 12 years ' imprisonment for attempted murder and possession of explosives similar to those involved in the Lockerbie air disaster in December 1988 . |
| 26 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 27 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 28 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 29 | Thus ‘ unlawful act ’ manslaughter , which can be committed by virtue of a mere assault or battery , is an example of constructive liability ( see Chapter 5.2 ( a ) and ( b ) ) ; it is only luck which makes the difference between the summary offence of common assault ( maximum , six months ' imprisonment ) and the grave offence of manslaughter ( maximum , life imprisonment ) . |
| 30 | Common assault is the lowest rung of the ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , with a maximum penalty of six months ' imprisonment , and it is discussed in more detail below . |