Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] sentence [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In R. v. Jordan ( 1967 ) Jordan , who had been sentenced for offences under the Race Relations Act 1965 , applied for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been convicted under an invalid law . |
| 2 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 5 | 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 . ] . |
| 6 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 7 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 8 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 9 | It was announced on April 29 that Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili , the leader of the extreme nationalist Pamyat organization who had been sentenced in October 1990 to two years in a labour camp for anti-Semitism [ see p. 37789 ] , had hanged himself in prison . |
| 10 | Also amnestied were all prisoners ( except repeated offenders ) who had been sentenced before Dec. 22 , 1989 , to prison terms of up to three years for crimes other than murder , rape , grievous bodily harm , robbery , bribe-taking and abuse of power . |