Collocations withsentence
These are words often used in combination withsentence.
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automatic sentence
That purpose is to maintain judicial discretion within the framework of an expectation of an automatic sentence.
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concluding sentence
I quoted a concluding sentence which, to any objective reader, appeared to be a summary of the entire argument.
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conditional sentence
For every item of this test, participants were given the main clause and the beginning of the subordinate clause of a conditional sentence.
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consecutive sentence
They re-ect the fact that the local focus is concerned with consecutive sentence coherence, while the global focus is concerned with discourse part coherence.
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deferred sentence
That is the informal equivalent of a deferred sentence.
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eight-year sentence
Because he told the truth and because he opposed people moving back into these areas, he has now ended up in prison serving an eight-year sentence.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
five-year sentence
There is a big difference between a five-year sentence, a forty-year sentence, and a sentence measured in three figures.
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following sentence
For example, the following sentence has the subject-asymmetric reading counting donkey-owning farmers.
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four-year sentence
A four-year sentence would properly be called a two-to-four-year sentence.
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indeterminate sentence
They gave us evidence of the unsettling effects of the indeterminate sentence on life prisoners.
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lengthy sentence
That is a cruel thing to happen to someone who is serving a life sentence or any other lengthy sentence.
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lesser sentence
Far too many of the criminals involved receive a lesser sentence even though they might face a life sentence.
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light sentence
If one of them got a light sentence, then someone must have got quite a heavy sentence.
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long sentence
First, a matching part generalized from a long sentence was often too restricted to match other sentences because too many attributes were reserved as restrictions.
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mandatory sentence
It changed criminal procedure, establishing mandatory sentence enhancements for habitual offenders.
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maximum sentence
A corresponding group difference was not found for maximum sentence length scores derived from the spontaneous language sample in the lab situation.
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minimum sentence
Similarly, we propose that children tune in to the prosody of a ' minimum sentence length ' appropriate for the discourse function of the utterance.
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one-year sentence
Death was caused by dangerous driving, but the person responsible was given only a one-year sentence.
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opening sentence
But then, in the opening sentence of the final chapter, the upbeat story comes to a sudden, crunching end.
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preceding sentence
I want to stress the 'tries to' in the preceding sentence (and in this analysis generally) because managerialism still has 'troubles'.
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reduced sentence
Has it increased and resulted in a reduced sentence for some individuals?
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run-on sentence
The lyrics in the verses are not sung, but spoken in a run-on sentence style.
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Wikipedia
sentence comprehension
Verbal working memory in sentence comprehension in children with specific language impairment.
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sentence fragment
Each sentence fragment (without the participle) and each verb stem was compiled into an audio wav-file.
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sentence of imprisonment
Financial penances were in addition to the confiscation of wealth by the secular power which followed any sentence of imprisonment or release to the secular arm.
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seven-year sentence
The amendments also deal with drugs offences and the mandatory seven-year sentence.
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severity of sentence
It has been argued that mandatory sentences will not work because it is the certainty of conviction that deters offenders, not the severity of sentence.
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short sentence
Each target compound was accompanied by a short sentence that represented comprehensible context that provided some information about the meanings of the word without being too strong or too weak.
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single sentence
Finally, in a single sentence, the lawyers mentioned the principle of contributory negligence.
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six-month sentence
A six-month sentence which would include three months in custody and three months' supervision could help to protect the public.
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spoken sentence
Infants remember the order of words in a spoken sentence.
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stiff sentence
Fourteen years is a very stiff sentence; it is virtually the equivalent of a life sentence.
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ten-year sentence
Upon their release, those prisoners will be subject to supervision release orders which can extend long beyond the expiry of the five or ten-year sentence.
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three-year sentence
A further offence of domestic burglary would automatically incur at least another three-year sentence.
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two-year sentence
It happens to be the same as the two-year sentence for contempt of court.
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