Example sentences of "turning [art] blind eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The authority plans to stop turning a blind eye to disability and war pension income when calculating community benefits charge and housing benefits . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 34 | For two years , Clark , William Waldegrave at the Foreign Office and Nicholas Ridley at the Department of Trade and Industry wrangled in secret memos over the morality of turning a blind eye in exchange for information . |