Example sentences of "preoccupied with [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consultancies were preoccupied with learning the commercial disciplines of planning and marketing to help qualify public relations as an acceptable modem commercial tool which could help earn profits . |
| 2 | In practice , functionalists appear preoccupied with discovering the positive functions , the beneficial effects of social institutions . |
| 3 | Daly and Caputi are especially preoccupied with reclaiming the spiritual powers women were once invested with — powers hinted at in the etymology of words like glamour , as noted above . |
| 4 | Sure , the DNA was perhaps a little preoccupied with carrying the genetic memory , but could not the memories of a lifetime be readily encoded in the myriad of potential unique protein sequences ? |
| 5 | In this way a good horizontal flow is far more certain than if one were constantly preoccupied with assessing the vertical results of each note combination , as was the case in the ‘ contradicting note ’ method . |
| 6 | The main difference between the sociobiologists and their ethological predecessors is that , whereas the latter were preoccupied with demonstrating the adaptive value of certain kinds of signalling behaviour in non-human animals , the former are much more dogmatic about the actual evolutionary mechanisms which have brought these ( and many other ) behavioural adaptations into existence . |