Sentence examples for rather preoccupied from inspiring English sources

"He's rather preoccupied at the moment, but he holds up well.

He has become rather preoccupied with writing to politicians, having recently added a framed photograph of David Cameron to a collection that also includes George W Bush.

But I remember this vividly, for it occurred amid the departure of Howell Raines, a time of crisis for senior editors, when she may have been rather preoccupied.

Leaving behind her rather preoccupied London boyfriend, Lily is armed with a carrier bag full of love letters, written by Klaus to Elsa, during the years of their frequent separations.

In one of the Corps' official histories, the situation is expressed in this rather preoccupied sentence: "By 1860, it had become increasingly obvious that a successful war over such an immense battleground could be waged only by a consolidated army under one authority".

While the eyes of the world were trained on Japan on Sunday morning as the latest chapter of Lewis Hamilton's remarkable rookie season in formula one unfolded, I was rather preoccupied with wondering whether my own racing team could deliver a strong start to the 2007-08 A1GP World Cup season in Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

But I was rather more preoccupied with descending safely after my footwear malfunction.

Ashley is impossible to second-guess but he has ignored previous protests and right now he is probably rather more preoccupied with what to do with Pardew.

WERFEL and Weill emphasize human emotion rather than the abstractions that preoccupied Schoenberg in "Moses und Aron".

Nonetheless, I can't help wishing that the New Labour I voted for in 1997 had turned out to be the electrifying version I'd seen flashing to life in the chamber that night, rather than the version so preoccupied with looking at its own reflection that it rapidly, and disastrously, lost its way.

"Yet the Commons will also be more preoccupied with the local rather than the international (not necessarily a bad thing) and small problems rather than big ideas and issues  (a very bad thing as it will be less exciting and lead to sixth-form essays read out word for cut-and-pasted word, replacing oratory).