Example sentences of "[noun] occupied a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan occupied a privileged position in Sartre 's life both intellectually and emotionally . |
| 2 | A striking modern bronze horse occupied a low table . |
| 3 | The soft-bodied Ediacaran animals occupied a wide range of Vendian ( Latest Proterozoic ) marine environments and are now known from all over the world . |
| 4 | Suites of store-rooms occupied a large area of the temple . |
| 5 | Dockworkers occupied a crucial place in the economic process , which they exploited to raise their earnings considerably above the average for manual workers . |
| 6 | At this time , the colleges of education occupied a halfway house between the universities and the further education sector . |
| 7 | The search for soccer stories occupied a new breed of journalist — men like Alan Hoby , the self-styled ‘ Man Who Knows ’ , or the ‘ Man Who Knows F — All ’ as he was known to some of his readers . |
| 8 | Making family portraits and documenting weddings , she learned that photographers occupied a special place in the iconography of domesticity . |
| 9 | Within the antisocialist camp Liberalism occupied a subordinate position , forfeiting a tradition of Radical progressivism that had informed much of the alternative municipal discourse during the 1890s , and leading to its extinction as a force in local politics . |
| 10 | foreign language training occupied a substantial share of the overall training budget ( between 20% and 65% ) ; |
| 11 | For many years after George Eastman patented his first camera in 1888 , the company occupied a dominant position in photography . |