Example sentences of "[vb mod] not blind [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |