Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] turn [art] blind eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 7 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |