Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a blind [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire .
3 Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet .
4 For years , the authorities have turned a blind eye to the slaughter , maintaining that it was a quaint custom which would eventually die out .
5 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 .
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