Example sentences of "in prison for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well liberation theology is one version of it that in certain parts of the world , particularly where there is great economic and political oppression , where people get locked up in prisons for believing and thinking differently , and where there is very real persecution of the poor , and those who erm have different ideas . |
| 2 | Carl Jacobson faces up to 10 years in prison for relaying bribery money to the US navy official responsible for awarding lucrative contracts to WedTech , a New York contractor , and United Chemcon , a Lancaster , Pennsylvania company associated with Mr Guerin 's International Signal and Control Corp . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 5 | IVAN Boesky , the former Wall Street takeover speculator sentenced to three years in prison for insider trading , has been released from his California jail and is living within commuting distance of Wall Street , looking for a new job . |
| 6 | Only a few months ago , he was in prison for ‘ subversion ’ and ‘ anti-state activities ’ ; but yesterday , before the day was out , he was being congratulated as a worthy successor to the country 's first leader , Tomas Garrigue Masaryk . |
| 7 | Yet , thanks to the cumbersome appeals procedure , each execution currently costs between $2m and $5m , four or five times what it costs to keep someone in prison for life . |
| 8 | He had even won a writing prize while in prison for a story on Joplin 's last days . |
| 9 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 10 | ‘ Why is n't she in prison for subversive activities ? ’ |
| 11 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 12 | Some forty were arrested , refused bail by a puzzled magistrate and sent to spend Christmas in prison for drawing attention to their preference for peace and goodwill rather than nuclear threats towards men . |
| 13 | Hunt 's main claim to fame these days is his two-year term in prison for a particularly nasty libel — he called the Prince Regent ‘ a fat Adonis of 50 ’ . |
| 14 | Brown proceeded to tell Pincher the government 's version of events including the allegation that Blake had betrayed over 40 British agents , hence the claim was born that Blake was sentenced to one year in prison for every agent . |
| 15 | Over 1,400 of the occupiers were arrested by the National Guard , and kept in prison for two weeks , treatment which in itself won them considerable sympathy . |
| 16 | They did n't succeed in oppressing me when I was in prison for 16 years and I ask you now , do n't stand alone when you can be together ’ . |
| 17 | The driver was eventually sentenced to six months in prison for reckless driving . |
| 18 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 19 | Rotting in prison for the best part of his life , or a dishonourable death at the end of a rope . |
| 20 | He is in prison for committing violent crimes against English imperialism and he is demanding status as a political prisoner . |
| 21 | I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’ |
| 22 | In prison for a debt of £5 , how could he pay five plus the thirty of law expense ? |
| 23 | He was fortunate not to be in prison for debt for , on the tour of British prisons which he made in 1812 , James Neild of The Thatched House Society , found debtors were discriminated against . |
| 24 | By an Act of 1808 ( 48 Geo III cap 123 ) , anyone who had been a year in prison for a debt of less than £20 was thought to have suffered enough and must be allowed to go home . |
| 25 | He then had to stay in prison for two months while a schedule of his debt was prepared , he was examined by the court and he agreed to surrender his property . |
| 26 | He was cleared of attempted murder and assault but sentenced to a year in prison for possessing a gun illegally . |
| 27 | It could be monotonous work for an aspiring and impatient young painter and Thomas Girtin ( 1775–1802 ) for one rebelled against the repetitive work , with the result that his master Edward Dayes had him put in prison for breaking the terms of his indentures . |
| 28 | After the trial Orchin , Richmond and McCready were held in prison for about a month on the charge relating to the unlicensed pistol . |
| 29 | Writing from Maidstone prison in April 1917 , Allen repeated his refusal to exchange the physically destructive conditions of hard labour in prison for ‘ spiritual death in safe civil work . ’ |
| 30 | Roger , who said he was abused from the age of four and saw his mother Virginia regularly beaten , told of his two years in prison for selling cocaine and his former addiction to the drug . |