That is the sort of sentence Borges had in mind.
They might, for example, be given an indication of the sort of sentence they would get if they pleaded guilty before the magistrates.
This sort of sentence sets the tone: "The house seemed suddenly imbued with meaning, redolent of their past and precious to them".
First - he admits that "in my mind I was smiling", which is the sort of sentence that could easily get you sectioned.
He added that as Huhne's barrister, John Kelsey-Fry, had foreshadowed: "You should have no illusion whatsoever as to the sort of sentence that you are likely to receive".
But I knew from the beginning that sort of sentence meant a few months, and I knew that I would survive it.
"You should have no illusions whatsoever as to the sort of sentence that you are likely to receive, understand?" Mr Justice Sweeney told Huhne, who stood with his hands behind his back and nodded in response.
She said: "Although the sentence imposed on Mr Dodgson is the highest yet for insider dealing in the UK, it still falls significantly short of the sort of sentences we see coming out of the US.
Several prisoners said the sort of sentences they were threatened with in interrogation sessions were later handed down in their trials, which they say points to close collaboration between judges and the intelligence apparatus.
In "To the Lighthouse," Woolf's fifth novel, she mastered a sort of sentence that she had been edging toward, a sentence we can now call her own: a freely progressing, long, fractured series of observations and insights, unburdened and unhurried by the need to tell the "story," yet moving with the unrelenting progression of a scalpel.
Does it give you pleasure that you have lost almost all of your friends?" Judge Nigel Sweeney told Mr. Huhne on Monday that, while he was being released on unconditional bail until sentencing, "you should have no illusions whatsoever as to the sort of sentence that you are likely to receive".
