Example sentences of "' imprisonment [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 2 | At the moment the punishment is up to six months ' imprisonment and/or a £2,000 fine . |
| 3 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 4 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 5 | It is punishable by a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 6 | The importance which the legislature attached to the observance of the regulatory system is demonstrated by section 4 , which makes a contravention of section 3 an offence , punishable on conviction on indictment by a term of two years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 7 | By contrast , a person who organises a procession or a meeting and knowingly fails to comply with the conditions imposed commits an offence punishable with three months ' imprisonment or a level three fine . |
| 8 | In Scotland , the penalty for a summary offence is three months ' imprisonment or a fine , but not both . |
| 9 | The maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment or an unlimited fine . |
| 10 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 11 | The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen . |
| 12 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 13 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 14 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 16 | For instance , in November 1990 two brothers in Abbotabad were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and given a heavy fine for having preached about their faith . |
| 17 | She was charged with and convicted of running a disorderly house , sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and subjected to a property confiscation order in respect of the apparatus . |
| 18 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 19 | Sentence : four years ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
| 20 | Sentence : two years and nine months ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
| 21 | Sentence : 18 months ' imprisonment and , recommended for deportation . |
| 22 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
| 23 | Eventually in 1275 the first Statute of Westminster appears to have provided that the ravishment of any woman was an offence punishable with a penalty of two years ' imprisonment and ransom and in 1285 the second Statute of Westminster turned this into a capital offence . |
| 24 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
| 25 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 26 | Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 . |
| 27 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 28 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 29 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |
| 30 | Nicolae Andruta Ceausescu , the younger brother of executed former President Nicolae Ceausescu , was sentenced by a military tribunal of the Supreme Court to 15 years ' imprisonment and demoted . |