Example sentences of "' [adj] imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the report was published , the question of the balance of Meehan 's compensation for seven years ' wrongful imprisonment was to remain in abeyance . |
| 2 | The law says 16 years ' wrongful imprisonment for murder is worth £100,000 damages . |
| 3 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 4 | The conviction of Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richard , together with art gallery proprietor Robert Fraser , on drugs charges , together with the Stones ' brief imprisonment — Fraser was not so lucky — triggered demonstrations running into hundreds outside the offices of the News of the World . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |