Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Washington Post of Jan. 16 , 1990 , more than 800 people including university students had been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for " counter-revolutionary crimes " , including such acts as putting up posters . |
| 2 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 3 | A similar group of NUFLVN guerrillas had been sentenced to prison terms in late 1987 [ see p. 35902 ] . |
| 4 | A human rights report published by the US State Department in late January 1991 criticized the Chinese government 's record , and estimated that 1,000 people had been sentenced to prison or re-education since the Tiananmen Square crackdown . |
| 5 | Two army officers had been sentenced to prison terms for an attack on unarmed demonstrators in Santiago Atitlán in December 1990 , when 16 were killed and 24 wounded [ see p. 37912 ] , and another army officer was awaiting trial for the murder in September 1990 of anthropologist Myrna Mack [ see p. 37707 ] . |
| 6 | Of a further 2,217 people who had been charged in court by March 12 , over half had been sentenced to prison terms . |
| 7 | The only procedural defect alleged in M. 's appeal is that the committal order was not served on M. personally , or , alternatively , that he was not served until 3 July , nearly a month after he had been committed to prison . |
| 8 | Bourke had been discharged from prison on 4 July 1966 and was living in rented accommodation in Perryn Road about a-mile away from the prison . |
| 9 | In the Hussainara case , it was revealed that a number of destitute women had been held in prison for several years awaiting the trials of men accused of raping them . |
| 10 | He had been brutalized in prison and become cynical . |
| 11 | There had been disaffection among the Welsh in the universities for more than eighteen months now , and many a wandering musician had been thrown into prison for stirring up sedition with his tribal songs , and more than one had been put to death . |
| 12 | In response to the dispersal decision ETA intensified an existing letter-bomb campaign which had been directed against prison officers since early 1989 . |
| 13 | The election reaffirmed Mandela 's position as effective leader of the ANC ( whose 72-year old president , Oliver Tambo , was in Sweden convalescing after a stroke ) , with Sisulu , Mbeki and another veteran freedom fighter , Raymond Mhlaba ( who had been released from prison along with Sisulu in October 1989 ) now forming the core of the internal leadership . |
| 14 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 15 | On Jan. 24 Harminder Singh Sandhu , the general secretary of the All-India Sikh Students ' Federation ( AISSF ) and a leading advocate of the establishment of Khalistan , who had been released from prison on Dec. 4 , was assassinated in Amritsar , by , it was widely speculated , factions struggling for supremacy within the Sikh militant movement . |
| 16 | The general secretary of the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Paraguayo — PCP ) , Antonio Maidana , who in 1978 had been released from prison into exile , returned to Paraguay on Dec. 16 . |
| 17 | The attack occurred one day after three members of a Jewish guerrilla group , the Jewish Underground , had been released from prison after serving less than seven years of life sentences for murdering Palestinians [ see also pp. 33190-91 ; 34010 ] . |
| 18 | Kung had been released from prison in 1985 after serving 30 years for " counter-revolutionary " crimes [ see p. 33724 ] . |
| 19 | Dharsono , who had been released from prison in September 1990 after serving over four years of a seven-year sentence for subversion [ see p. 37715 ] , said that the FPPS had the support of some 70 leading intellectuals and dissidents . |
| 20 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 21 | Lt.-Col. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho , who had been released from prison on a legal technicality in 1989 [ see p. 36945 ] , in October faced new charges of involvement with the Popular Forces of April 25 ( FP-25 ) including a bank robbery in the 1980s . |
| 22 | Chinese authorities announced on Nov. 25 that Bao Zunxin , a prominent Chinese dissident , had been released from prison 19 months before completion of a five-year prison sentence . |
| 23 | While the Commissioners were not drawn exclusively from within the Prison Service , by convention three key posts were reserved for people who had been promoted from prison governor grades . |