Example sentences of "[art] blind eye [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | turning a blind eye to harassment of you by your colleagues ; |
2 | This has encouraged teachers to turn a blind eye to LMS in the hope that somehow , somewhere , someone will do something to protect them and their pupils from ‘ it ’ . |
3 | The process of idealizing one 's partner , turning a blind eye to faults or discrepancies between what is and what is desired , can perform a useful function . |
4 | Macbeth , for example , asks us some very difficult questions about ( amongst other things ) the relationship between power and sexuality , about acquiescence in the face of evil and turning a blind eye to things we 'd rather not know about . |
5 | Honouring someone does not mean turning a blind eye to weakness . |
6 | The referee was a complete twat Roger Dilkes , a miserable midget who contrived to spoil what was already a poor game by turning a blind eye to West Ham 's negative game and penalising Leeds wherever possible . |
7 | In thirty years , if she had not learned to turn a blind eye to Bernard 's excesses , she had learned nothing . |
8 | However much Cnut may have played the Christian king , he was , like other rulers , willing to turn a blind eye to church teaching when it suited him . |
9 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
10 | The metaphor is unusual , drawing attention to the invitation to whitewash , cover up , turn a blind eye to evil . |
11 | The Waco sheriff habitually turned a blind eye to Koresh 's activities . |
12 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
13 | The plaintiff must show that the defendant has turned a blind eye to truth in order to advance an ulterior object . |
14 | TEACHERS are turning a blind eye to pupils smoking at school , a report reveals today . |
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 | The points were made that parking there can not be dangerous as it is permitted during part of the year , and that the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to cars parked outside the church during services . |
17 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
18 | The authority plans to stop turning a blind eye to disability and war pension income when calculating community benefits charge and housing benefits . |
19 | Councils have been turning a blind eye to shops opening on Sunday because of the uncertainty over what the Euro-judges would decide . |
20 | The national populous actually turned a blind eye to atrocities that were happening with human beings . |
21 | Even the securist in the maternity ward probably lived such a squalid and impoverished life that his price for turning a blind eye to abortion was not very high . |
22 | 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 . |