Sentence examples for would be preoccupied from inspiring English sources

When the CCP proclaimed the People's Republic, most Chinese understood that the new leadership would be preoccupied with industrialization.

The PM will not be able to attend the summit since he would be preoccupied with the Indo-EU summit.

"I'm blonde," Moodie said with a laugh when asked whether she would be preoccupied thinking about the final round, "so I'll just go back and think about nothing".

In an ideal world, people would be preoccupied with reading and writing poetry and having love affairs, as people were in the Japanese court in the 11th century, as described in "The Tale of Genji".

Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state policies on abortion for the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization, said that while states would be preoccupied with budget issues, it appeared rather likely that more measures would pass this year than in 2010, which anti-abortion advocates considered a banner year, with more than 30 restrictive laws adopted in at least nine states.

Louis sent his forces into the Palatinate with the promised support of King James II of England and in the expectation that Louis's inveterate opponent, William of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, would be preoccupied with his coming attempt to overthrow James and would thus be neutralized as an opponent of the French on the European continent.

When he started at Manual as a freshman, he'd been preoccupied with working as a drug runner for the Southside Sureños, a gang that he had joined three years earlier, at the age of eleven.

John Brennan insisted that Brexit would not undermine cooperation with MI6 in the fight against terrorism, but suggested that the EU, a bulwark of peace and stability since the fall of the Berlin wall, would now be preoccupied with the UK's departure.

"Why," Wieskamp asks, "would she be preoccupied with a button while the other people in the photograph were terrified of being killed?

A strange thing to be preoccupied with".

It is not known if Capone ever learned about his inclusion in the story, although during initial serialisation he would have been preoccupied with his trial and ensuing imprisonment.