Example sentences of "turn a [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff must show that the defendant has turned a blind eye to truth in order to advance an ulterior object . |
| 2 | She went , with a glare at Luke Denner that would have turned a lesser man to stone . |
| 3 | At the end , between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident , he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority . |
| 4 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
| 5 | turning a blind eye to harassment of you by your colleagues ; |
| 6 | Honouring someone does not mean turning a blind eye to weakness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The authority plans to stop turning a blind eye to disability and war pension income when calculating community benefits charge and housing benefits . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The metaphor is unusual , drawing attention to the invitation to whitewash , cover up , turn a blind eye to evil . |