Example sentences of "[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	But as long as these extra-curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye .
5	Dreaded teacher turns a blind eye
6	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 .
7	Sometimes the state turns a blind eye .
8	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 .
9	‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	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 .

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