Example sentences of "blind [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
2 | One has to be , but it does n't blind me to the fact that we are both solemn underneath the surface . |
3 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
4 | Familiarity with the area may blind him to the obvious . |
5 | A flurry of complications ensues : Richard falls for the winsome Anna , though not even love can blind him to the realisation that her poetry is ‘ absolutely bloody awful ’ . |
6 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
7 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
8 | In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power . |
9 | Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church , so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement . |
10 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
11 | Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations . |
12 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
13 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
14 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
15 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
16 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
17 | If , in popular music , these take on to some extent an ‘ automatic ’ quality , this should not blind us to the contradictory potentials of such historical continuities . |
18 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
19 | In the Miller 's Prologue , the Miller 's supposed drunkenness should not blind us to the measured good sense and balance of the mind implied within the character who speaks as the Miller . |