centre of attention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcentreandattention
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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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(Definition ofcentreandattentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The protein is becoming thecentreofattentionagain.
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In this article relations between non-kin are at thecentreofattention.
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I enjoy being thecentreofattentionat any social gathering. 32.
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There was economic logic behind making legislative and administrative reforms acentreofattentionin development assistance.
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It puts the family at thecentreofattention.
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The overseers and their activities are thecentreofattention, and the vestry often appears a monolithic power in the parish.
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Concerns about the erosion of traditional social ties and institutions have always been acentreofattentionin the social sciences.
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Now children and friends are thecentreofattention: the extended family group is rather less significant in terms of its impact on daily life.
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The approach to musical analysis adopted here can be thought of as semiotic because referential processes are at thecentreofattention.
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If the maincentreofattentionthroughout the years 1797-1815 was on foreign policy and war, this period was also one of great domestic turmoil.
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As a young boy, the son had been incorporated into each one, such that he felt that his father 'liked to be thecentreofattention'.
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They become thecentreofattention; they are not the baddy any more, but the goody.
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More recently, my constituency has been thecentreofattentionin a high-profile adoption case.
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It just happened to be that exams would be thecentreofattentionthis year.
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It was not thecentreofattentionin 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 thecentreofattention.
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This has been a complicated debate and not the easiest discussion in which to have been thecentreofattention.
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Hiscentreofattentionwas the human figure.
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Yet he was elated to be thecentreofattention.
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The overriding aim is to facilitate the testimony of children while keeping an individual child's needs at thecentreofattention.
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Pingu is given his own badge by the doctor, and is now thecentreofattention.
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As the only officer's wife at the front, she was acentreofattention.
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He's extremely good-looking and is almost always thecentreofattentionwherever he goes.
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She became acentreofattentionand some scandal, and her film credit was instantly dropped.
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A new calf is usually thecentreofattentionfor herd members.
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