The phrase "great preoccupation of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that occupies a significant amount of someone's thoughts or attention. For example: "The great preoccupation of my father's life is his career in medicine." In this sentence, the phrase is used to describe the main focus of the father's thoughts and actions. It could also be used to describe a societal or cultural preoccupation: "The great preoccupation of our society seems to be achieving success at any cost."
The plot of the movie, however, takes an unadvertised leftward turn towards murder – the great preoccupation of late Allen films – and the relationship between teacher and student is turned on its head.
This fascination with structures of perceiving, the forms that communicate them, and the relationship of poet and poetry to the lived, material "real" is the great preoccupation of Yves Bonnefoy, arguably the major French poet of the second half of the century.
Who has it and who doesn't will be the great preoccupation of 2009.
By 1970 he found he had arrived at the two great preoccupations of his life: the explication of presence and an awareness of perception.
In 1973, he merged the two great preoccupations of his life by publishing a book, "The Malpractice of Psychiatrists"; it was the first important analysis of the legal responsibilities of psychiatrists in relation to therapy, medication, hospitalization, suicide, and shock treatment.
One of the other great preoccupations of the book is the concept of the 'adjacent possible', a phrase coined by the scientist Stuart Kaufman.
A.W. Schlegel's writings show a great preoccupation with and interest in the perspective of the 'other': women, children and, above all, other cultures.
In my case the plight of nonhuman animals at human hands became the great preoccupation.
But Daniele Capezzone, spokesman of Mr. Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, said that Tuesday's ruling prompted "great preoccupation and perplexity," the Ansa news agency reported.
In the open-air Mass in Ecatepec, the pope paid recognition to Christians slain for their faith, "martyrs," from centuries ago and from today — an allusion to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Africa, one of Francis' great preoccupations.
It is the relationship within it of Wagner's two great preoccupations: myth and psychology.
