Example sentences of "[verb] turn [art] [adj] eye to " 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 | Until then , police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions . |
3 | Okay , if we wa if we want to turn a blind eye to it then that 's our business you know but er but when you 're , when you 're actually erm |
4 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
5 | He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world . |
6 | Honouring someone does not mean turning a blind eye to weakness . |
7 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
8 | The points were made that parking there can not be dangerous as it is permitted during part of the year , and that the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to cars parked outside the church during services . |
9 | In thirty years , if she had not learned to turn a blind eye to Bernard 's excesses , she had learned nothing . |
10 | Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son 's misdemeanours , which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth , Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu 's bad behaviour to Valentin 's modest and retiring example . |
11 | The authority plans to stop turning a blind eye to disability and war pension income when calculating community benefits charge and housing benefits . |
12 | Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet . |
13 | For years , the authorities have turned a blind eye to the slaughter , maintaining that it was a quaint custom which would eventually die out . |
14 | Its permanent members tended to turn a myopic eye to brutal domestic behaviour on the argument that ‘ he may be a sonofabitch but he 's our sonofabitch . ’ |