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词汇 example_english_centre-of-attention
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centre of attention

collocation in English

meanings of centreand attention


These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with attention.
centre
noun[C]
uk /ˈsen.tər/ us /ˈsen.t̬ɚ/
the middle point ...
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attention
noun[U]
uk /əˈten.ʃən/ us /əˈten.ʃən/
notice, thought, ...
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Examples of centre of attention


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The protein is becoming the centreofattention again.
In this article relations between non-kin are at the centreofattention.
I enjoy being the centreofattention at any social gathering. 32.
There was economic logic behind making legislative and administrative reforms a centreofattention in development assistance.
It puts the family at the centreofattention.
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The overseers and their activities are the centreofattention, and the vestry often appears a monolithic power in the parish.
Concerns about the erosion of traditional social ties and institutions have always been a centreofattention in the social sciences.
Now children and friends are the centreofattention : the extended family group is rather less significant in terms of its impact on daily life.
The approach to musical analysis adopted here can be thought of as semiotic because referential processes are at the centreofattention.
If the main centreofattention throughout the years 1797-1815 was on foreign policy and war, this period was also one of great domestic turmoil.
As a young boy, the son had been incorporated into each one, such that he felt that his father 'liked to be the centreofattention'.
They become the centreofattention; they are not the baddy any more, but the goody.
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More recently, my constituency has been the centreofattention in a high-profile adoption case.
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It just happened to be that exams would be the centreofattention this year.
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It was not the centreofattention in the debate, but it is an important matter.
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Once the unemployed became symbolic bearers of powerful metaphors of disease, paralysis and danger, people who had been shunted to the margins of society were suddenly the centreofattention.
This has been a complicated debate and not the easiest discussion in which to have been the centreofattention.
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His centreofattention was the human figure.
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Yet he was elated to be the centreofattention.
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The overriding aim is to facilitate the testimony of children while keeping an individual child's needs at the centreofattention.
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Pingu is given his own badge by the doctor, and is now the centreofattention.
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As the only officer's wife at the front, she was a centreofattention.
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He's extremely good-looking and is almost always the centreofattention wherever he goes.
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She became a centreofattention and some scandal, and her film credit was instantly dropped.
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A new calf is usually the centreofattention for herd members.
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