Example sentences of "[art] blind eye [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire .
2 Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field .
3 He seems to be obsessed with investing every penny , while at the same time turning a blind eye to the needs of his growing family .
4 The latter has said that he could not necessarily turn a blind eye to this … especially if there were complaints from other parties ; as you are well aware the commission have the power to seek repayment .
5 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 .
6 Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet .
7 ‘ Council 's turned a blind eye to it previously but I 'm in charge now and I 'm booking you under the Fireworks and Public Entertainments byelaw . ’
8 Their attempts to impose conditions on a man like Henry VIII only show how far , in the initial stages , they were turning a blind eye to the implications of their policy .
9 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 .
10 ‘ It is hard to turn a blind eye to something so obvious and widespread , ’ wrote the author of a forestry text in 1962 .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band .
14 turning a blind eye to harassment of you by your colleagues ;
15 There is no question of the SFA turning a blind eye to the incident …
16 This has encouraged teachers to turn a blind eye to LMS in the hope that somehow , somewhere , someone will do something to protect them and their pupils from ‘ it ’ .
17 As British economists know only too well , it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion .
18 Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem
19 Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year .
20 The process of idealizing one 's partner , turning a blind eye to faults or discrepancies between what is and what is desired , can perform a useful function .
21 Julia Bard ( ‘ The priests have it ’ , 1 May ) rebukes anti-racists for turning a blind eye to religious fundamentalism , and cites a recent issue of the Runnymede Trust Bulletin to illustrate her argument .
22 Councils have been turning a blind eye to shops opening on Sunday because of the uncertainty over what the Euro-judges would decide .
23 They provide cover for them , they harbour them , they turn a blind eye to their work . ’
24 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 .
25 Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son 's misdemeanours , which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth , Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu 's bad behaviour to Valentin 's modest and retiring example .
26 Even the securist in the maternity ward probably lived such a squalid and impoverished life that his price for turning a blind eye to abortion was not very high .
27 He was a taciturn , curiously detached individual who seemed happy to turn a blind eye to any of his tenants ' ’ goings-on' , as Eleanor called them .
28 ‘ 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 . ’ ,
29 Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple .
30 TEACHERS are turning a blind eye to pupils smoking at school , a report reveals today .
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