Example sentences of "preoccupied with [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Barton became increasingly preoccupied with the effects of overpopulation . |
| 2 | The MU is not preoccupied with the problems of yesteryear . |
| 3 | Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order . |
| 4 | The manhood of England has been largely alienated from the organised Churches because we have been so absorbed by the interests of the individual soul as to neglect the woes of society , and so preoccupied with the delights of heaven as to overlook some of the most urgent duties of earth . |
| 5 | He grew up in an age when the youth of the Netherlands were preoccupied with the tales of oppression and corruption in the colonial service revealed some 50 years earlier by the writings of ED Dekker ( writing as ‘ Multatuli ’ ) . |