Example sentences of "a blind " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win . |
| 2 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 3 | Turning a blind eye could cost you a great deal of money in lost orders and lost production , and it certainly wo n't help them or their colleagues who have to work with them . |
| 4 | Participants , who will carry symbolic lanterns and a ‘ flag of flags , ’ include a blind person , a Czech grandmother , a black South African archaeologist , a Siberian and an Argentinian model . |
| 5 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
| 6 | But the blank horror over Khmer Rouge atrocities between 1975 and 1978 has created a blind spot about its strength in Cambodia , and the growing likelihood that it will return to power , either on its own or with the other Cambodian opposition factions . |
| 7 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 8 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 9 | A 13-year-old white kid living in Kensal Green going out to buy a Blind Lemon Jefferson album , I ask you ! |
| 10 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 11 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 12 | A blind man could see that the children think the earth of you . |
| 13 | Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He 'd already turned a blind eye when a couple of his lorries got hi-jacked . |
| 16 | I seen a blind man once — he 'd got a stick so he could tap the pavement so he did n't fall down no holes . |
| 17 | They were slaves of their own chemistry , following a blind biological urge . |
| 18 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 19 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 20 | There was no question that Darby , a former part-time youth leader at George Green Youth Centre , Tower Hamlets , had merely turned ‘ a blind eye ’ to the drug-taking , he said . |
| 21 | MPs knew the Health Secretary did not listen to the patients or the nurses and doctors , he said , but ‘ at least we can seek reassurance in the fact that he does n't pay a blind bit of notice to what his own department is saying either ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I 'd Rather Be Famous , by Pete Johnson ( Methuen , £4.95 ) might seem like candy-floss in comparison but this book is sardonic in its view of romance and the dreams of telly fame that follow an appearance in a Blind Date type of show . |
| 24 | Camp authorities are either unaware of this or turn a blind eye . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet . |
| 27 | A blind man lacks the ideas of colour because he lacks the requisite experience , and a man ‘ deprived of every sense … would have no idea of a single thing ’ . |
| 28 | Berkeley infers from this that , lacking experience of such eye-movements , a blind man who gained sight ‘ would , at first , have no idea of distance by sight ; the sun and stars … would all seem to be in his eyes , or rather in his mind ’ . |
| 29 | A sighted person can make predictions about the future course of tangible experience — falling over a precipice or hitting a wall — which to a blind man ‘ seem as strange and unaccountable as prophecy doth to others ’ . |
| 30 | Once seated , Denice tells us she 's only been on a blind date once before , and that was years ago . |