For example, English sentence structures focus on agents, and in our criminal-justice system, justice has been done when we've found the transgressor and punished him or her accordingly (rather than finding the victims and restituting appropriately, an alternative approach to justice).
Long term offenders will continue to be monitored by the probation service for about the same length of time as their prison sentence - for example, an offender given an 18 month sentence will serve nine months in prison, and nine months on licence in the community.
Conversely, for example, you might read a sentence like this: 'Malcolm Gladwell's book, 'The Tipping Point, ' introduced a term that is now in wide currency.