Example sentences of "attention at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 2 | Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime . |
| 3 | Another great naturalist , Thoreau , has focussed attention at the same scale : ‘ Nature will bear the closest inspection . |
| 4 | One woman found that when different family members were all demanding different things and her attention at the same time , ‘ something blows ’ . |
| 5 | But so much pressed in ; so many matters demanded attention at the same time ! |
| 6 | The great novelist , in Nizan 's eyes , should be an " anti-Dostoievsky " , that is to say , a writer who can at one level emulate Dostoievsky 's ability to transpose on to the literary plane the anguish and despair of men and women struggling alone and unaided in the midst of a tragic social situation , and yet who can at another level go beyond Dostoievsky , offer a coherent explanation of the specific historical situation in which men and women are trapped , and focus attention at the same time on the political means of combating the injustices of their social condition . |
| 7 | Or , at least , they are misleading , directing attention at the wrong things . |
| 8 | Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab . |