Example sentences of "[art] blind [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris became involved with Guide Dogs for the Blind while in the Army Cadet Force . |
| 2 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | One is faced here with the blind spot of the dominant form of Irish nationalism , already so apparent in the preamble to the constitution itself , a blindness made possible by the ideological differentiation of state and religion combined with the ideological unity of the people , seen at once as both nation and catholic . |
| 6 | It was the blind spot of the internationalist Left . |
| 7 | Two windsurfers , like rainbow-flashing kingfishers , cut dramatically and dangerously back and forth at right angles to the blind spot of the bow . |
| 8 | Editor , — In their photographic report of a patient with a bubble of gas trapped within his cupped optic disc Lumina P Lanigan and colleagues ask , ‘ If the optic disc represents the blind spot in the visual field , why was this patient aware of such bubble sight ? ’ |
| 9 | Alone in her room , banging the knob of the blind cord against the glass in the window in frustration , Alexandra glared out into the darkening world and raged . |
| 10 | Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A blind descent of the mountain 's south face in the dark seemed our only option . |
| 16 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 17 | Their designers have discovered a blind spot in the way humans play chess , and they have built machines with one ability : to sit in that blind spot and stab out of it , over and over , during the course of the game . |
| 18 | When parts of the retina have actually separated , the flashing sensation stops and there is a blind spot in the affected area . |
| 19 | Previously , the start was determined by a blind draw within the first seeding group of 15 . |
| 20 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 23 | Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet . |
| 24 | Their attempts to impose conditions on a man like Henry VIII only show how far , in the initial stages , they were turning a blind eye to the implications of their policy . |
| 25 | Significantly , farmers — generally reliable Tory supporters — are blaming the Government for the sins of Brussels and appear to be turning a blind eye to the Liberal Democrats ' pro-European stance . |
| 26 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 27 | It can sometimes mislead people who perceive clearly the fallacies the metaphor invites and therefore reject it altogether , turning a blind eye to the true insight it encapsulates . |
| 28 | The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band . |
| 29 | There is no question of the SFA turning a blind eye to the incident … |
| 30 | Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year . |