Example sentences of "be turning [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councils have been turning a blind eye to shops opening on Sunday because of the uncertainty over what the Euro-judges would decide . |
| 2 | TEACHERS are turning a blind eye to pupils smoking at school , a report reveals today . |
| 3 | Thirdly , as the Government are turning a blind eye to many of the disregards being allowed for people on income support and in residential and nursing care , could that be codified and made safe for all forms of disregard ? |
| 4 | Environmentalists claim that the Russian authorities , desperate for foreign investment , are turning a blind eye to the logging companies ' many breaches of the country 's nature protection laws European 22-25 October |
| 5 | Granada , makers of the top soap , are turning an old studio into the Victoria and Albert hotel , with each of its 132 rooms named after hit programmes . |
| 6 | ‘ The quarry at Horton in Ribblesdale is not only destroying the landscape but its lorries are turning the neighbouring villages into death traps , ’ he says . |
| 7 | I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you , the part of you that chooses , into something a little different from what it was before . |
| 8 | This is the education system , he charges , which is producing the cultural bureaucrats who are turning the national patrimony of France into an amusement park for tourists ) . |
| 9 | JOHN Major 's economic obsessions are turning the damaging recession into a destroying slump . |
| 10 | Significantly , farmers — generally reliable Tory supporters — are blaming the Government for the sins of Brussels and appear to be turning a blind eye to the Liberal Democrats ' pro-European stance . |
| 11 | The grapes that hung over mine host 's door were turning a dusky shade as the juice ripened in their skins . |
| 12 | Their attempts to impose conditions on a man like Henry VIII only show how far , in the initial stages , they were turning a blind eye to the implications of their policy . |
| 13 | Reports persisted throughout May that the security forces were turning a blind eye to the activities of Zulu mobs in the townships , allegedly waiting to respond until local citizens retaliated against the Zulus ' attacks . |
| 14 | Have the Government finally abandoned the erstwhile Tory doctrine that the rule of law must be upheld in all circumstances , now that the Attorney-General is turning a blind eye to big supermarkets breaking the Sunday trading law and as the poll tax non-payment campaign has apparently recruited the architect 's daughter ? |
| 15 | Now that sort of policy does have its problems because some people would say that is allowing people to break the law , it 's turning a blind eye to people who are breaking the law . |
| 16 | And while the British Government was turning a blind eye to the export of machine tools from Matrix Churchill , Dr Al-Habobi was happy to report his success to Saddam Hussein . |
| 17 | Calder 's face was turning an incredible shade of pink — but it could not be any pinker than her own face ! |