Converse of object

• suspend: He received a two year suspended sentence in April 1998 for inciting racial hatred.

• serve: The play was also delivered to youths serving a custodial sentence in a Regional Secure Unit.

• impose: Agreeing, the judge imposed the heaviest possible sentence.

• pronounce: Bradshaw presided over the King's trial and pronounced the sentence of death.

• pass: No need, you've passed sentence on " Shauny's " career already; off to City you go Shauny boy.. .

Adjective modifier

• custodial: The play was also delivered to youths serving a custodial sentence in a Regional Secure Unit.

• mandatory: Murder, for which there was a mandatory death sentence?

• non-custodial: We will reduce the number of prisoners with more non-custodial sentences.

• maximum: The maximum sentence in a Crown Court is two years imprisonment or a fine or both.

• suspended: Griffin then earned a two-year suspended prison sentence for his sick views on the Holocaust.

• five-year: Those found guilty of harassment now face a maximum five-year jail sentence.

Noun used with modifier

• jail: Supply will remain an offense which could result in a jail sentence.

• prison: Franklin, facing a long prison sentence, agreed.

• death: The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.

Preposition: of

• imprisonment: SENTENCE A sentence of imprisonment or Youth Custody for a term not exceeding six months.

• condemnation: The second rebuked the first, saying, " Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

• paragraph: Accordingly, the Tribunal's reasons should be varied by the omission of the last three sentences of paragraph 37.

• detention: SENTENCE A sentence of detention for a term not exceeding six months passed under either of those provisions.

Preposition: for

• manslaughter: The biggest worry for me is the huge divergence between the sentence for murder and the sentence for manslaughter.