light sentence

collocation in English

meaningsoflightandsentence

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light
adjective
uk
/laɪt/us
/laɪt/
not weighing ...
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sentence
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.təns/us
/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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(Definition oflightandsentencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If one of them got alightsentence, then someone must have got quite a heavy sentence.
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There can be no justification for such alightsentence.
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The problems involved for the individual and for society in the concept of alightsentencein these circumstances are considerable.
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That limitation is not a formula for the accused to get off with an inappropriatelylightsentence.
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They can plead provocation and get off with alightsentence.
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Refusal to give up the key in circumstances where it might damage a person will, first, incur only alightsentence.
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My constituents ask me how it is that someone who has burgled again and again can receive what appears to be a comparativelylightsentence.
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I want to emphasise that this safeguard does not mean that the accused will be getting off with an inappropriatelylightsentence.
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Some offences carry alightsentenceand others a heavy one.
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We cannot know when 12 months' disqualification would be a comparativelylightsentenceand when 12 weeks' disqualification would involve dire hardship.
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If he has alightsentence, all he has to do is to sit tight and do nothing.
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Without commenting on specific cases, does not my noble friend consider that to be a bit of alightsentence?
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Courts would be able to impose alightsentenceif that appeared to be relevant, which means that there is room for discretion.
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It would also include many convicted of relatively minor offences which, although in theory could attract such high sentences, in fact attract alightsentenceonly.
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I think it denotes a complete lack of imagination and indeed sensitivity to suggest that this lifelong penalty, including perhaps ten or more years in prison, is alightsentence.
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The court is more inclined on common-law principles to evince its displeasure with the police by giving alightsentence.
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Burkin was given a verylightsentence, two years in a mental hospital.
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He received a fairlylightsentence: 18-months of two-nights-a-week prison, and two-days-a-week community service.
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The authorities often dismissed the few cases that reached a prosecutor, or the court gave the perpetrator alightsentence.
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Thelightsentencewas due to her age of 72.
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