Example sentences of "[vb -s] a blind " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field . |
| 3 | The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band . |
| 4 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The government also orders , or turns a blind eye to , more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |
| 12 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But as long as these extra-curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye . |
| 15 | Dreaded teacher turns a blind eye |
| 16 | On any other day , Knight would hope Grobbelaar plays a blinder and is on the winning side . |
| 17 | Steve Mungall is moved forward into midfield and plays a blinder . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Leadership , as Keane says , ‘ resembles a blind and arrogant monarch when it comes to the real issues ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |