Sentence examples for have been preoccupied from inspiring English sources

For the last two centuries we have been preoccupied elsewhere.

Lately, they have been preoccupied with simply saving their reputations.

Both have been preoccupied with a nakedly political squabble over the judiciary.

Both have been preoccupied with the risks over their land frontiers.

Lawmakers there have been preoccupied with their own state pension crisis.

But as well as bomb-making she appears to have been preoccupied with her personal appearance.

As my children have grown up, I have been preoccupied with the case.

"Some of these countries have been preoccupied with very serious issues" like AIDS, he said.

In fact, the police have been preoccupied with a new hot spot off Jamaica Avenue.

For months, traders on the world's stock and commodity exchanges have been preoccupied with one issue: war with Iraq.

So far, though, most of the other likely presidential candidates have been preoccupied by jobs and the economy.