Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 2 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
| 3 | One morning a letter arrived from my literary agent , Michael Sissons , enclosing a handwritten manuscript of some 100,000 words written by a prisoner named David Cooper who , ten years earlier , had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the Luton murder . |
| 4 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His brother , Mohammed Ali Hamadei , had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in May 1989 for his role in the hijacking of a United States Trans World Airlines aircraft in 1985 [ see p. 36666 ] . |
| 7 | French prisoners also protested in July 1990 at overcrowding and specifically at Mitterrand 's decision on July 27 , 1990 , to release Anis Naccache ( as well as four others connected with his case ) , who had in 1982 been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder in 1980 of the former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar ] [ see pp. 30631-32 ; for links with Lebanese hostage issue see p. 36632 ; for August 1991 murder of Bachtiar see p. 38409 ] . |
| 8 | Doherty had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 for the murder of a British army captain during an ambush in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Of the individuals acquitted by the Bologna appeal court four had been sentenced to life imprisonment and nine to lesser terms . |
| 10 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 11 | Albert Dryden , who was filmed by a TV camera as he shot dead a council worker , has been sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | Michael Sams has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering the teenager , Julie Dart . |
| 13 | A BRITON has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Philippine court for drug smuggling , it was reported today . |
| 14 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 15 | Music without slurs and dynamics looks dead , because it has not been brought to life . |
| 16 | Seated in your medieval scholar 's desk , centuries of fascinating personalities and great historical events are brought to life before your eyes as the Oxford Story unfolds before you . |
| 17 | SOOTY 'S WORLD is the permanent exhibition of those unique items many of which are brought to life by detailed animation . |
| 18 | The recordings , which are brought to life through a variety of voices and sound effects , aid fluency and give confidence with pronunciation . |
| 19 | The artist 's sketches and scribbles are analysed to demonstrate recurring motifs and psychological preoccupations guilt at the death of Casegemas or a mistress 's abortion for example while figures such as Alfred Jarry , Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein are brought to life in Richardson 's simple , flowing prose . |
| 20 | At the town 's new cultural exhibition — the Sicilian Carousel — myths , legends history and people of the entire island of Sicily are brought to life through a unique blend of audio presentation and displays . |
| 21 | In this enchanting corner of the Park they are brought to life by the magic of Disney . |
| 22 | I conclude that this book could most definitely happen , in fact it is happening all the time in our lives although we are protected by our parents who are conditioned to life . |
| 23 | 1 ‘ The way that the subject is taught through the life of the school e.g. health habits , games , school government and self help in building and decorating etc. 2 ‘ The way that the subject taught in school can be related to life in the community , e.g. community health , social service , home vegetable plots etc . |
| 24 | At any moment , I thought , these people will remove their green hats to reveal powdered wigs , and I will be sentenced to life imprisonment or a job with British Rail . |
| 25 | The former Exxon security consultant is also expected to be sentenced to life in a separate case for kidnapping and murder . |
| 26 | Merely the presence or absence of surrounding water ensures that the leaf will be suited to life underwater or on top . |
| 27 | With the help of genetic finger-printing and the composite embryo techniques the experiment involved , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life from tissue preserved in museums . |
| 28 | With the help of genetic finger-printing , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life |
| 29 | It says Microsoft will likely be driven to support an optional Unix SVR4 personality on top of the NT kernel by 1995 or 1996 and that such a creature will be brought to life by a third party , nominating the Santa Cruz Operation Inc for the role . |
| 30 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |