Sentence examples for were preoccupied because from inspiring English sources

His parents were preoccupied because of financial troubles.

An end to prematch television interviews in the tunnel The players are preoccupied with the match to come; the interviewer is preoccupied because the players are preoccupied.

This is preoccupying because it is contrary to on-going efforts to incorporate the best available scientific evidences as well as the patients' views in health [ 53], one of the cornerstones of improving the quality of health care [ 54].

At the Manchester Commonwealth Games, offending levels actually fell, perhaps because people were preoccupied and also because there was a feelgood factor".

Probably this was because they were preoccupied with the exam, but it may have been because adults are to teen-agers just too weird to bother about.

Election officials said that may have been because voters were preoccupied with the holiday season.

Analysts said November had a rocky start because consumers were preoccupied with the presidential election.

We often forget where we put our house keys because we were preoccupied with something else (absent-mindedness).

Some people now wonder if the suspects simply drove right through road blocks because officers were preoccupied with a different profile.

On the diplomatic side of the Grand Embassy, Peter conducted negotiations with the Dutch and British governments for alliances against Turkey; but the Maritime Powers did not wish to involve themselves with him because they were preoccupied with the problems that were soon to come to a crisis, for them, in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Senator Kennedy's son, Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman from Rhode Island who was one of the law's main backers, said he worried that the Obama administration had delayed the rules because officials were preoccupied with the president's broader legislation and needed the insurance companies' support.