Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' preoccupation with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They talked of their husbands ' preoccupation with work , of their normal children 's too-early maturing , of integrated and special schools , and of eating — the hoped-for miracle diet for their child or , often , the consolation they found in food . |
| 2 | Thus , on Sunday , I hooted in disbelief when A Year In Provence focused on the natives ' preoccupation with hunting a local , woodland fungus which sells for £100 a pound . |
| 3 | All these are part of what might be termed the ‘ quality of life ’ and the prisoners ' preoccupation with this vital but ill-defined subject is shared by the Governor , Graham Gregory-Smith . |
| 4 | The turnout was around 30 per cent in each round considered to reflect in part electors ' preoccupation with the Gulf war . |
| 5 | Socialization theories ' preoccupation with creating scientific theories suggests that they are trying to beat or at least match biological theories on their own terms . |
| 6 | But feminists ' preoccupation with subjectivity has made them particularly interested in Lacanianism . |
| 7 | The Formalists ' preoccupation with form derived from their preoccupation with the specificity of literariness and never constituted an end in itself . |