Example sentences of "was occupied by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the central Philippines , the airbase of Mactan was occupied by no more than two hundred rebels and surrounded by allegedly ‘ loyal ’ troops . |
| 2 | The centre , I saw briefly , was occupied by a large boat on blocks , its superstructure covered with lightweight grey plastic sheeting . |
| 3 | One was occupied by a plump woman in her forties , who was briskly sorting through a pile of letters . |
| 4 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 5 | The town was burnt in June 1646 by the Irish and in October of the same year was occupied by a garrison of English troops . |
| 6 | This tiny cottage was occupied by a charming , grandmotherly lady called Mrs. Newman . |
| 7 | The seat in front of us was occupied by a blind man , Mr. Shergold , who lived in Love Lane . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The seat on my left was occupied by a fat lady who was busy peeling an orange . |
| 10 | From below his sternum to his waist , Quinn 's front was occupied by a flat wooden box that had once contained liqueur chocolates . |
| 11 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An exception was sometimes allowed if a second home was occupied by a dependent relative , who lived in it rent free . |
| 15 | And the throne of the country was occupied by a puppet-king regarded as an iniquitous usurper . |
| 16 | It was occupied by a young couple in their early twenties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The throne was occupied by a pipe-smoking alligator . |
| 19 | The scale platform was occupied by a woman so huge , so grossly hung about with mounds and protuberances and pendent ledges of fat that it was impossible to see where there was a baby , or how large , or how high it was . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The centre was occupied by a huge stone slab with twice as many sides as a square . |
| 23 | On the night of Jan. 22-23 , the national radio station in Kinshasa , Voix du Zaïre , was occupied by a group of soldiers who broadcast statements calling for the dismissal of Nguza 's government and the resumption of the national conference . |
| 24 | ‘ Before that , the house was occupied by a Miss Lucy Scarrott . |
| 25 | God 's perch was occupied by a different player who was slumped in his throne half-asleep , an ale mug between his feet . |
| 26 | The spare chair in his office was occupied by a woman of about thirty dressed in an elegant black outfit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As with many of the larger sebils , the arcaded upper storey was occupied by a kuttub , a school where little children received their first lessons on the Koran . |
| 29 | The fourth side of the square was occupied by a gas-works whose gasometer looked down on its neighbours . |
| 30 | 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 . |