Sentence examples for preoccupied by it from inspiring English sources

I can't fight it, and I can't let my team be preoccupied by it".

The Obama administration's health care team is now preoccupied by it.

"I can't become preoccupied by it," Mr. Dodd said in an interview.

Engineer Brandon Bostian heard about the rock-throwing on the radio and was apparently so preoccupied by it that he lost track of where he was and accelerated full-throttle to 106 mph as he went into a sharp curve with a 50 mph speed limit, investigators said at an NTSB hearing to pinpoint the cause of the 12 May 2015 derailment.

But by the next morning, I wasn't completely preoccupied by it anymore.

In the languages, when more idiomatic, possible alternatives used for "how bothered are you by... " were similar to" how much are you preoccupied by", "do you feel it is a burden to" or "how inconvenient is it for you".

The NHS is preoccupied by austerity: it must find £20 billion worth of efficiency savings by 2015.

As the series prepares to shut down, the men seem spent and preoccupied by death; it's the women who keep us wanting just a little bit more.

"The people had not felt this wretched and isolated since the Holocaust".In such an atmosphere, and given the feebleness of international diplomacy (in America the Johnson administration was preoccupied by Vietnam), it was perhaps inevitable that the generals' case for a pre-emptive war would win the day.

I realised that, while the mums I know would all say they are overwhelmingly preoccupied by that question, it had never even occurred to me to ask it of myself.

At a time when designers are increasingly preoccupied by environmental concerns, it seems logical for them to be drawn to the work of Richard Buckminster Fuller, Victor Papanek and other 20th-century pioneers of ecologically responsible design.