"was actively engaged" is a perfectly valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who is actively participating in a project or activity. For example, "The students were actively engaged in the science experiment."
Only this patient was actively engaged in activities such as dancing and mountain climbing, while the other 6 were not especially involved in athletic activities.
During testing of the IVIS interactions, trial engagement was flagged by the facilitator through a keyboard press which allowed the identification of segments of the IVIS condition when the participant was actively engaged in an activity (IVIS-1) or had finished that activity and was operating the vehicle without voice-based interactions (IVIS-0).
MV provided two data sets for phase 1a, supervised coders for phase 1a, provided and supervised an interviewer in Phase 1b, and was actively engaged in all manuscript preparation activities.
She was actively engaged in the arts and civic volunteerism and serving the community.
"He was seen as someone who Torricelli was actively engaged with," one former aide said.
Barnes & Noble said on Tuesday that it was "actively engaged" in its formation.
Tesco, meanwhile, told us it was actively engaged in improving conditions.
The last 35 years she was actively engaged in bringing to life the children's books of Louise Fitzhugh.
But this was a stronger argument for ousting Saddam 15 years ago, when he was actively engaged in mass murder.
His father Chaim, was actively engaged in show business, managing several downtown theatres, principally the Second Ave.
"Contains this great observation: 'While he was actively engaged in the game he was not a man given to affability.
