Example sentences of "blind [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Joyride victim … a stolen car crushed blind pensioner against a wall .
2 The young man was living with his parents and his blind sister in a pitiful hovel , one of the worst on the island .
3 Cos you could sh I mean we 've got the curtains sort of left handed , it might be an idea to have the blind pull on the left hand end as well .
4 His criticisms were aimed at portraying an excessive modernist preoccupation with formal innovation as the artistic accompaniment to a fundamentally misguided and despairing ideological stance , itself the product of the solitary and consequently socially blind existence of the contemporary bourgeois writer .
5 In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) .
6 First , there were the financial consequences of Labour 's blind support for a dictatorial trade union leader , who is now as popular in Walworth road as a fox cub in front of the Quorn hunt .
7 Blind faith in a medical solution to AIDS obscures the far more important role that health education can play in preventing HIV infection .
8 Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled .
9 He lived alone in this deteriorating , blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments which like all its counterparts , fell , day by day , into greater entropic ruin . ’
10 At the extreme , his death may be entirely incidental to some criminal lunatic making a political point , or just blind violence like the Belgian supermarket killings .
11 A CHEQUE FOR £2,000 was recently handed over to the guide Dog for the Blind Association at the Shell/Esso Gas Plant at St Fergus .
12 The results of a double blind study of an oral specific 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor , Zileuton ( Abbott Labs ) are disappointing .
13 We conducted a crossover double blind study in a larger sample of patients with altered perception of hypoglycaemia after changing to human insulin .
14 Not for him the blind search for a nipple , no free of the womb' spasms to jerk his limbs ; he was happy to be apart , independent , an entity unto himself .
15 Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone .
16 Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge .
17 Then with her crutch to aid her she slipped out of the door and round the blind side of the building , hobbling into the cover of the under-brush .
18 When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards .
19 So after a quick glance behind him to check that there was nobody coming in on his blind side from the corridor , he crossed to his locker and pointed to the bulge in its door .
20 In all likelihood Dean Richards will play on the blind side in the Test Team and hence it will be necessary to have additional cover at No 8 .
21 No it 's window er blind window with a bay window at the side .
22 ‘ It says , apparently , ’ she went on , ‘ that a blind boy with a mark on his face will ‘ come out of the West ’ .
23 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 .
24 The role play can become more interesting , and more complex — if , for example B becomes the blind parent of a sighted child being shown round the classroom or the hall by A , a teacher in that school .
25 The Lowsons farmed Blind Beck for a number of generations .
26 And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us .
27 Previously , the start was determined by a blind draw within the first seeding group of 15 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire .
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