Example sentences of "blind [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man was living with his parents and his blind sister in a pitiful hovel , one of the worst on the island . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His criticisms were aimed at portraying an excessive modernist preoccupation with formal innovation as the artistic accompaniment to a fundamentally misguided and despairing ideological stance , itself the product of the solitary and consequently socially blind existence of the contemporary bourgeois writer . |
| 4 | First , there were the financial consequences of Labour 's blind support for a dictatorial trade union leader , who is now as popular in Walworth road as a fox cub in front of the Quorn hunt . |
| 5 | Blind faith in a medical solution to AIDS obscures the far more important role that health education can play in preventing HIV infection . |
| 6 | He lived alone in this deteriorating , blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments which like all its counterparts , fell , day by day , into greater entropic ruin . ’ |
| 7 | At the extreme , his death may be entirely incidental to some criminal lunatic making a political point , or just blind violence like the Belgian supermarket killings . |
| 8 | The results of a double blind study of an oral specific 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor , Zileuton ( Abbott Labs ) are disappointing . |
| 9 | We conducted a crossover double blind study in a larger sample of patients with altered perception of hypoglycaemia after changing to human insulin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Previously , the start was determined by a blind draw within the first seeding group of 15 . |
| 13 | Significantly , farmers — generally reliable Tory supporters — are blaming the Government for the sins of Brussels and appear to be turning a blind eye to the Liberal Democrats ' pro-European stance . |
| 14 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 15 | The aristocracy have found that out to their cost and that 's why they 're often willing to turn a blind eye to the occasional by-blow , provided it 's handled discreetly . |
| 16 | Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . |
| 17 | The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band . |
| 18 | Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year . |
| 19 | Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet . |
| 20 | In a report published on Sept. 18 , the human rights organization Amnesty International stated that it was time that the United States and the international community stopped " turning a blind eye to the flagrant human rights abuses committed by the Mexican government " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 23 | It can sometimes mislead people who perceive clearly the fallacies the metaphor invites and therefore reject it altogether , turning a blind eye to the true insight it encapsulates . |
| 24 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 25 | The rules stipulate clubs must field the strongest team available , but the FA turns a blind eye as the top teams clearly do not do so . |
| 26 | The echinoderms may seem , from a human point of view , to be a blind alley of no particular importance . |
| 27 | Such sums are not obtained without some sort of commitment to success which , in contemporary terms , means circulation and advertising rather than a blind commitment to a political creed . |
| 28 | Donald Regan , the Secretary of the Treasury , had no personal commitment to Kemp-Roth and only worked for it out of blind loyalty to the chief executive . |
| 29 | Sir John — who lives in Denham , Bucks — recently returned from Poland where , ironically , he played a blind man for a new film . |
| 30 | 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 . |