sentence

• prison sentence

  I ended up with a two-year prison sentence with another nine months suspended.

• each sentence

  Atomism, opposed to holism, holds that each sentence has its own meaning, which it can carry about with it from theory to theory.

• last sentence

  The expression "miscarriage of justice" in the last sentence

• sentence imposed

  NB: A sentence imposed by a court outside Great Britain shall betreated as a sentence most nearly corresponding with a Great Britain sentence.

• jail sentence

  He is serving a 10-year jail sentence.

• mandatory life sentence

  A later example can be found in the proposal to substitute discretionary sentences (including life imprisonment) for the mandatory life sentence in cases of murder.

• sentence of death

  He was rewarded for this and more with a Bulgarian sentence of death and a British MBE.

• second sentence

  The it in the second sentence refers back to the ball .

• sentence would have

  The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.

• suspend sentence

• custodial sentence

  ‘Housebreaking on this scale merits nothing else than a custodial sentence.

• first sentence

  A difficulty of paraphrase arises even in the first sentence "Who are the characters?"

• sentence does

  Her sister Carole Calf, of Accrington, Lancashire, said: ‘The sentence does seem lenient.

• sentence passed

  The court ruled that the case against Harte had not been "conclusively or legally proven" and quashed the 18-year sentence passed against him on April 2 [see p. 38157].

• sentence being

  Although in this last case we should note that it is much harder to talk of the sentence being ‘wrong’; there are circumstances when people validly violate semantic norms, as we shall see.