Example sentences of "a blind [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only they had possessed just a little more of that rare commodity , plus the assistance of a blind man with an abacus , it might not have taken both channels until 1.30 in the morning to start predicting an absolute majority for Mr Major . |
| 2 | It was a strange sight : a blind man at a spectacle . |
| 3 | It is interesting to reflect on the value of a guide dog to a blind person as an aid to independence in the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 4 | Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick . |
| 5 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 6 | A blind descent of the mountain 's south face in the dark seemed our only option . |
| 7 | ‘ It says , apparently , ’ she went on , ‘ that a blind boy with a mark on his face will ‘ come out of the West ’ . |
| 8 | If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information , it would n't be her fault . |
| 9 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 10 | Trident seems to occupy a blind spot for a Government otherwise over-enthusiastic about cutbacks in public expenditure . |
| 11 | Their designers have discovered a blind spot in the way humans play chess , and they have built machines with one ability : to sit in that blind spot and stab out of it , over and over , during the course of the game . |
| 12 | Address the document to Fred in the usual way but also send a blind copy to a folder called 193O728 — named after the date on which you wish to be reminded , in reverse . |
| 13 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 14 | Nelson , who took Murdoch 's place in goal , first of all did as his namesake and turned a blind eye to a cross from McGinlay . |
| 15 | And turned a blind eye to the sinking S** . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world . |
| 18 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
| 19 | For years , the authorities have turned a blind eye to the slaughter , maintaining that it was a quaint custom which would eventually die out . |
| 20 | For their part , the Conservative-dominated National governments of Baldwin and Chamberlain in Britain , engaged in their policies of appeasement towards the fascist powers , were anxious to prevent the Spanish war from spreading , even at the cost of turning a blind eye to the involvement of Italy , Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | There is no question of the SFA turning a blind eye to the incident … |
| 22 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But to disqualify Eugenius from the running is to ignore the twanging power inherent in ‘ Flame On ’ ; to pass over Kelly 's weary woefulness ; to turn a blind ear to the plethora of lovely guitar flicks and calmly-slashed chords which litter ‘ Breakfast ’ and ‘ Buttermilk ’ like mouldy cabbages down Walthamstow High Street on market day . |
| 25 | In April two students from this school stood back to let an elderly disabled woman enter the Post Office before them and in June another student , who I am glad to say had been with us only two weeks , was spotted by two seniors through the window of the tap room of the Throstle 's Nest , helping a blind woman across the road . |