(1) When I walk in, he is busily supervising the soundtrack that will play at the following night's red-carpet event.
(2) On the diplomatic front, Abe is busily wooing his Asian neighbours.
(3) This time, the war going on is among the gGrocers are busily slashing prices to try to compete with the growing threat of the low-cost operators Aldi and Lidl.
(4) The O’Reilly cases, meticulously reported by The New York Times , were known to management while the Murdochs were busily drawing up a new contract for the blustery, harassing host.
(5) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(6) It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre …” I don’t think this Ukip poster creators would be insulted by the Enoch Powell comparison Powell foresaw an unchecked inflow of black immigrants creating civil war; this poster tells us absolutely the same thing about the people headed our way, it claims, across borderless Europe.
(7) Even McDonald's in the UK has busily revamped its offer – its eggs are free-range, it uses organic milk and its adverts constantly remind you that carrot sticks are on offer (one of your five-a-day, kids!).
(8) And it may not be the hope-filled optimists who right now are busily talking about a better future here in the Science Centre.
(9) While we were busily getting dressed up, playing lots of characters and arguing about the content of the show, Felix just played one character per episode.
(10) Statisticians busily scanning the permutations reckoned defeat by three or four goals would be enough to bring other third-placed rivals back into contention, so considering Northern Ireland could have easily been looking at such a scoreline at half-time they must have been pleased to turn round only a goal down.
(11) The career courier may be a thing of the past – nowadays it’s increasingly common for couriers to earn their money from two or three jobs, enjoying the freedom of the road three or four days a week, supplementing this with the odd evening of bar work, and otherwise busily building up their portfolio as a photographer, or frame-builder, or sommelier, or writer.
(12) He writes: The FTSE is busily confounding bulls and bears alike, swinging higher one week and then sharply lower the next, as the post-2009 trend fizzles out.
(13) But 2,400 miles to the west, in Las Vegas, Sanetti's staff at the NSSF was busily putting the finishing touches to preparations for the largest trade show of new guns and ammunition in the land.
(14) And the crime is still very much in progress, with our respective governments busily clearing the way for new coalmines and new oil pipelines.
(15) For its part, Tokyo says it wants to talk, but is busily boosting its military and security capabilities and alliances.
(16) I know this much: while making the documentary, as I busily rewrote bits of script, suggested locations, worried about plane noise and changing light, advised the cameraman on angles and sternly told the director what I thought the ending should be, I prayed they would be thinking: "It's nice that she cares", rather than: "Christ, it's no wonder she sympathises with the old battleaxe she's talking about."
(17) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
(18) Users have been busily posting examples on Twitter and other social media.
(19) The court case is still pending; she and Manit are busily considering alternative ways to screen their work in Bangkok.
(20) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".
Busy
Definition:
(a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.
(a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.
(a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.
(a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.
(a.) Careful; anxious.
(v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(3) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(4) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(5) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(6) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(7) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(8) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(9) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(10) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(11) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(12) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(13) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(14) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(15) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(16) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
(17) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(18) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(19) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(20) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.