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

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1 Chris became involved with Guide Dogs for the Blind while in the Army Cadet Force .
2 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 .
3 I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew !
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It was the blind spot of the internationalist Left .
9 Two windsurfers , like rainbow-flashing kingfishers , cut dramatically and dangerously back and forth at right angles to the blind spot of the bow .
10 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 ? ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen .
18 If only they had possessed just a little more of that rare commodity , plus the assistance of a blind man with an abacus , it might not have taken both channels until 1.30 in the morning to start predicting an absolute majority for Mr Major .
19 It was a strange sight : a blind man at a spectacle .
20 Sir John — who lives in Denham , Bucks — recently returned from Poland where , ironically , he played a blind man for a new film .
21 ‘ Metaphysics ’ has been defined as the attempt by a blind man in a dark room to find a black hat which is n't there .
22 It 's like putting a blind man in a fast car and telling him to drive where and how he likes .
23 It is interesting to reflect on the value of a guide dog to a blind person as an aid to independence in the AL of maintaining a safe environment .
24 Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick .
25 Then it was the latter 's turn to make a blind swing into a bottomless groove to start the second pitch .
26 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 .
27 A blind descent of the mountain 's south face in the dark seemed our only option .
28 ‘ It says , apparently , ’ she went on , ‘ that a blind boy with a mark on his face will ‘ come out of the West ’ .
29 The echinoderms may seem , from a human point of view , to be a blind alley of no particular importance .
30 If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information , it would n't be her fault .
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