Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] blind " in BNC.
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1 | Editor , — In their photographic report of a patient with a bubble of gas trapped within his cupped optic disc Lumina P Lanigan and colleagues ask , ‘ If the optic disc represents the blind spot in the visual field , why was this patient aware of such bubble sight ? ’ |
2 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
3 | It was put into production with so many faults that , to this day , the Fl is virtually unflyable at night , and has a blind spot which ensures that few Fl pilots will come out of any dogfight alive . |
4 | so you see she sees him coming and going , she sees the blind people coming and going , so hence the kind of yeah , so is that 's it |
5 | Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field . |
6 | The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band . |
7 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
8 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The government also orders , or turns a blind eye to , more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Changes in the law to this effect have taken and are taking place , while jurisdiction turns a blind eye towards much which would once have been rigidly repressed . |
13 | There is no doubt that officialdom in Brussels turns a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour by state-owned industries in a way that it is not prepared to do for private companies . |
14 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |
15 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
16 | The alternative if the British public turns a blind eye , she believes , is the prospect of a dark day when , because of the colour of their skin , two young Middlesbrough-born and bred women may not be allowed to reach the safety of their home . |
17 | But as long as these extra-curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye . |
18 | Dreaded teacher turns a blind eye |
19 | AL PACINO is currently shooting Scented Woman , in which he plays a blind army veteran , Frank Slade , who goes to New York with the reluctant teenage boy assigned to care for him . |
20 | There are no photoreceptors at the head of the optic nerve , and hence this area forms the blind spot . |
21 | Seeing is believing … the videophone which takes the blind out of date . |
22 | Now I 'm ha I 'm handing round a summary of last week 's lecture , which I hope will make more sense of it , and I have here , if anybody wants to borrow it , a Xerox of chapter three in Dorkins ' book where he explains the Blind Watchmaker , and the manual for the disk . |
23 | But when it 's a valued ally of the West who resorts to high-tech barbarism against defenceless people , hardly anybody pays a blind bit of attention . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Eddie 's over-protection rapidly becomes a blind obsession until he has lost sight of the fact that he really wants to make Catherine happy . |
26 | Leadership , as Keane says , ‘ resembles a blind and arrogant monarch when it comes to the real issues ’ . |
27 | It infers a blind lack of awareness of the urgency with which we need to reduce the amount of energy consumed in order to halt global warming " he said . |