Sentence examples for becomes spent from inspiring English sources

His first-grade conviction for tax evasion on his yacht, the Nelie, becomes spent in the British legal system on 28 March – 12 months after the original ruling in Italy – following a recent change to the Rehabilitation of Offenders' Act.

I don't mind admitting that this is all really confusing, not least because Cellino is allowed to return to his old role at the club on the 10th of April, when his tax evasion conviction becomes spent in the eyes of the British legal system.

Surely that's inimical to the spirit of the law whereby convictions become spent and offenders are rehabilitated?

For instance, for anyone sentenced to less than six months in prison, their conviction has become spent after two years.

What happens when Generation Rent become generation spent?

She became ill; spent a few days in bed, & then had a spell of weeping.

The settlements of Hale and Hale Barns are closely linked; what would later become Hale Barns spent most of the medieval period as an extension of the more dominant Hale.

When she discovered sculpture as an undergraduate at Brown University, Ms. Genger became obsessed, spending hour upon hour in her studio.

Before she was pregnant, Tonya said, she quickly became addicted, spending all of her money on pills bought on the street.

The unemployed have become regulars, spending their hours, and then their days, waiting on lines to attend these job fairs.

"But capital spending has become efficiency spending and companies may decide to maintain capital expenditures this time and cut the labor force instead".