Sentence examples for are so occupied from inspiring English sources

It struck me sometimes that the British are so occupied with competing – in their jobs, dancing, baking, with other nations – that they miss the bigger picture.

Flour, in some demand, at former prices.-------------The French papers are so occupied with the anticipated meeting of Louis Philippe and her Majesty as not to notice an interview which has just taken place between other Sovereigns in the castle of Aschaffenburg.

In the world outside of this or any other queer conference, most people can't get their heads around what "queerness" is or even what "queer liberation" is because they are so occupied with me.

(Her husband was content that she was so occupied; he was busy with his own affairs in Paris and at his garrison towns).

American museums have been so occupied for the last few years with matters far from home, among them the call for greater coverage of Islamic culture, that they have often passed over domestic themes and issues.

I was so occupied with "relating" and responding to the peppery prose that I missed the careful clues and warnings, especially those thrown off from Joanna's elocutionary exercises, snippets of poetry which ripple through the book like propitiating music.

Instead of a stable post-Yanukovych Ukraine, the Kremlin appears to prefer a weak country under an ever-present risk of falling apart or, as Mr Utkin puts it: "A Ukraine that is so occupied with its own internal problems that it doesn't have time for anything else".

The French painter and engraver Philibert-Louis Debucourt might have equalled Rowlandson if he had not been so occupied with the intricacies of colour prints; but he produced a few superb cartoons of the Paris of his day, full of caricatures of fashionable personages.

These children were so occupied by their own rage that they did not hear a teacher trying to stop them.

We're so occupied with our thoughts and intelligent reasoning, that it's hard to understand what our gut means when it has a feeling.

She kept saying I should never forget how much she loved me – but I was so occupied with getting ready for the party I was headed to that I didn't think about why she was saying it.