Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of those condemned to death legally , in August 1945 , was Pétain , though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 2 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 3 | In 1982 Mrs Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder , while her husband was convicted as an accessory and given a suspended 18-month jail term . |
| 4 | More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 . |
| 5 | Soon after the Communist takeover , he fell foul of the ultra-Stalinists and , as a Slovak , was sentenced to life imprisonment for ‘ bourgeois nationalism ’ . |
| 6 | Serfaty was sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 7 | Xanana Gusmao , a former resistance leader in East Timor , was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court for , among several charges , trying to set up a separate state . |
| 8 | When he was sentenced to life for killing his former rape victim , the main focus was on the release of the rapist : MP 's fury as revenge murderer gets life WHY WAS THIS MONSTER FREED ? |
| 9 | Phan Chu Trinh was sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 10 | Giap 's wife was sentenced to life imprisonment , and died in jail ; her sister went to the guillotine . |
| 11 | On June 30 , 1989 , former British Army corporal Dennis Beahan was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an abortive attempt to free five Zimbabwean saboteurs ( including the above three ) from prison in June 1988 . |
| 12 | On Dec. 15 , 1989 , Habib Maamar , 27 , from Tunisia , was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special assize court for two bomb attacks in Paris . |
| 13 | On Jan. 24 , 1991 , he was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of torturing three people to death , but acquitted of the murders of the other five people . |
| 14 | Roger Lafontant , a former Interior Minister and alleged leader of the Tontons Macoutes , the much feared and hated Duvalierist private army , was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour on July 30 . |
| 15 | Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1974 for the murder of 12 people , including nine soldiers , killed in an IRA bombing of a coach eight months earlier [ see p. 26458 ] , and she was also given concurrent 30-year prison terms for involvement in explosions at Euston Station in London and at a Ministry of Defence college [ see pp. 26873-74 ] . |
| 16 | The alleged head of the Gambino Mafia " family " , John Gotti , was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on June 23 , having been convicted on April 2 on murder and racketeering charges [ see p. 38858 ] . |
| 17 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 18 | Carter was sentenced to life in December 1990 for the murder of Darren Brook , his cell-mate in Durham Jail . |
| 19 | Coulton , of Ajax Way , Normanby , Middlesbrough , was convicted of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in October last year . |
| 20 | A CROWN Prosecution Service solicitor was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for murdering his wife , a student nurse , with a hammer . |
| 21 | Until recently , most stress was attributed to life crises such as divorce , bereavement , or redundancy . |
| 22 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 23 | Look at Jesus , nailed to a cross , dying a cruel death with two criminals beside Him ; look at Jesus , who was raised to life , and returned to sit beside His Father in heaven . |
| 24 | Andrew Hagans who 's 26 , was senetenced to life imprisonment last week after being convicted of rape and murder . |
| 25 | And on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus , still reposing in the sanctity of the divine presence , was quickened by the Spirit and the person of Jesus of Nazareth was restored to life . |
| 26 | A rather ordinary second half was brought to life when Lee Clement chipped the ball in direct from a free-kick for Haslemere 's third goal . |
| 27 | The finished design was brought to life with the help of four top craftsmen handpicked by Carol . |
| 28 | ALMOST exactly in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canaries and St Lucia , the radio net for the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers was brought to life on 10 December with a dramatic mayday from the one-off Chaot owned by Manfred Boschmann . |
| 29 | The Scottish Cup remains the Pittodrie side 's only chance of a trophy this season and no doubt the sponsor , Tennents , will welcome their participation in the penultimate stage of a tournament which was brought to life by the courageous display of Clydebank , who had seemed crushed and then reshaped into tigerish opposition . |