Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a blind [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that officialdom in Brussels turns a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour by state-owned industries in a way that it is not prepared to do for private companies . |
| 2 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ , |
| 4 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 5 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 6 | Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . |
| 7 | But as long as these extra-curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye . |
| 8 | Dreaded teacher turns a blind eye |
| 9 | Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year . |
| 10 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 11 | Such people were either doctors of high status who knew the individual personally , or someone on the selection panel with particular knowledge of or interest in disability ; for example , a person interviewing a blind candidate had had a visually impaired son . |
| 12 | The rules stipulate clubs must field the strongest team available , but the FA turns a blind eye as the top teams clearly do not do so . |
| 13 | There is no question of the SFA turning a blind eye to the incident … |
| 14 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 15 | The attention is not so much of a problem when the dogs are puppies as the idea is to train the dog to not be afraid of people , but when this happens to a fully trained guide dog accompanying a blind person it can cause problems . |
| 16 | This healing miracle restored a blind man 's sight . |
| 17 | How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered ? |
| 18 | The trouble was , Tweed was thinking , Paula had a blind spot where Dalby was concerned . |
| 19 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |
| 20 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 21 | ‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Then it was the latter 's turn to make a blind swing into a bottomless groove to start the second pitch . |
| 24 | Changes in the law to this effect have taken and are taking place , while jurisdiction turns a blind eye towards much which would once have been rigidly repressed . |
| 25 | Collegians , McCluskey was once again on hand to finish a blind side move and score in the corner . |
| 26 | The alternative if the British public turns a blind eye , she believes , is the prospect of a dark day when , because of the colour of their skin , two young Middlesbrough-born and bred women may not be allowed to reach the safety of their home . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 29 | The women turn a blind eye . |
| 30 | He seems to be obsessed with investing every penny , while at the same time turning a blind eye to the needs of his growing family . |