Example sentences of "sentenced [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laming , who was convicted during his trial of conspiring with Black to supply cocaine , was also sentenced to nine years to run concurrently for possessing 501 grams of cocaine . |
| 2 | A GLASGOW man was sentenced to nine years in prison for a knife attack . |
| 3 | A MAN was jailed for 12 years yesterday and two others each sentenced to nine years after being convicted of what a judge described as a cowardly and vicious attack on a helpless victim . |
| 4 | In 1990 a police officer accused of distributing copies of a patriotic song to high-school students was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 5 | Zhang Jingsheng was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment in December 1989 for ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ crimes during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations . |
| 6 | The hearings , closed to foreign observers , began on Feb. 5 , and on Feb. 12 two of the accused were sentenced to 13 years in prison , but those showing " repentance " were less severely treated . |
| 7 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 8 | Rami Dotan was sentenced to 13 years in prison on March 27 for using his position as the Israeli Air Force 's chief procurement officer to embezzle at least US$6,000,000 . |
| 9 | In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] . |
| 10 | On Aug. 26 Inge Viett , 48 , a Red Army Faction ( RAF ) member , was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment for the attempted murder in Paris on Aug. 4 , 1981 , of a French policeman , whom she shot in the neck during a police chase . |
| 11 | Wei Jingsheng was arrested on 29 March and later sentenced to fifteen years ' hard labour . |
| 12 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 13 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 17 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 18 | He was tried there under cross-border legislation and was sentenced to 10 years for the break-out . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sedition , including remarks made abroad after leaving Taiwan . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ] . |
| 30 | 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 . |