Example sentences of "was occupied by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was occupied by a young couple in their early twenties . |
| 2 | This was occupied by a junior cleric of Sigmar who accompanied one of the nobles attending the infamous Poison Feast of 1907 ; unlike his master , he was not deceived by Constant Drachenfels and he undertook rituals to purify this chamber and dedicate it to Sigmar . |
| 3 | Each room was occupied by a separate family , there was one cold water tap for the whole of the four families and one outside toilet . |
| 4 | The Temple of Yahwe was turned into a temple of Zeus Olympios , the inhabitants of Jerusalem were called Antiochenes and the mysterious Acra , the fortress , was occupied by a Syrian garrison : traditional Jewish practices , such as circumcision and the observance of the Sabbath , were prohibited . |
| 5 | One was occupied by a plump woman in her forties , who was briskly sorting through a pile of letters . |
| 6 | From below his sternum to his waist , Quinn 's front was occupied by a flat wooden box that had once contained liqueur chocolates . |
| 7 | Of the two tables nearby , one was occupied by a mixed group of men and women , all young and casually clad , the other by two men , one with a beard and guernsey sweater in which , in this warm room , he must be sweltering and the other with thinning hair , bespectacled and somehow familiar . |
| 8 | The throne was occupied by a pipe-smoking alligator . |
| 9 | The centre , I saw briefly , was occupied by a large boat on blocks , its superstructure covered with lightweight grey plastic sheeting . |
| 10 | German influence in East Prussia had been so strong that over the years the southern strip of East Prussia , which was occupied by a large number of ethnic Poles , had become increasingly Germanised . |
| 11 | The centre was occupied by a huge stone slab with twice as many sides as a square . |
| 12 | God 's perch was occupied by a different player who was slumped in his throne half-asleep , an ale mug between his feet . |
| 13 | The seat in front of us was occupied by a blind man , Mr. Shergold , who lived in Love Lane . |
| 14 | From that date forward until the French Revolutionary wars ( which had quite a momentous impact on Switzerland ) the castle was occupied by a Bernese governor . |
| 15 | This tiny cottage was occupied by a charming , grandmotherly lady called Mrs. Newman . |
| 16 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 17 | An exception was sometimes allowed if a second home was occupied by a dependent relative , who lived in it rent free . |
| 18 | When ( under the same conditions ) the sn-2 position was occupied by a saturated fatty acid ( stearic acid ) almost all biliary cholesterol was found in the vesicular fraction . |
| 19 | The seat on my left was occupied by a fat lady who was busy peeling an orange . |
| 20 | When I knew it , during the war years , it was occupied by an elderly bachelor who was one of the several mill owners in Witney , the town famed world-wide for its blankets since the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising . |
| 22 | The leader 's chair was occupied by the familiar and welcome figure of Bradley Creswick , who recently moved to the Philharmonia from the Newcastle-based Northern Sinfonia . |
| 23 | During November , Romania was occupied by the Central Powers , and on 6 December the capital , Bucharest , fell . |
| 24 | A third of it was occupied by the surrendering forces . |
| 25 | During the first opium war ( 1840–2 ) , after Hong Kong was occupied by the British expedition , Matheson purchased for his firm the first plots of land offered for sale on the island . |
| 26 | But these were only peripheral apprehensions , for the bulk of my attention was occupied by The Fat Controller 's mesmerising amoral discourse . |