Example sentences of "to turn a [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the challenge of competitive international markets , the corporate world , at least in its rhetoric , is keen to recruit bright graduates who as managers will be able to turn a critical eye on established practices . |
| 2 | Its permanent members tended to turn a myopic eye to brutal domestic behaviour on the argument that ‘ he may be a sonofabitch but he 's our sonofabitch . ’ |
| 3 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
| 4 | ‘ It is hard to turn a blind eye to something so obvious and widespread , ’ wrote the author of a forestry text in 1962 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Next month RW&P talks to the main men and gives an in-depth look at the Italian scene and asks whether rugby can afford to turn a blind eye . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1931 Japan resorted to force and occupied Manchuria , but the West , absorbed in its own problems , was able to turn a blind eye to such encroachments within the confines of East Asia . |
| 11 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 12 | The aristocracy have found that out to their cost and that 's why they 're often willing to turn a blind eye to the occasional by-blow , provided it 's handled discreetly . |
| 13 | In thirty years , if she had not learned to turn a blind eye to Bernard 's excesses , she had learned nothing . |
| 14 | It sounds as though Maurin was paying him to keep Barbara there and she was paying him to run errands — deliver the note to you and the photograph to Nice Matin — and to turn a blind eye when she went out . ’ |
| 15 | He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world . |
| 16 | However much Cnut may have played the Christian king , he was , like other rulers , willing to turn a blind eye to church teaching when it suited him . |
| 17 | ‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Okay , if we wa if we want to turn a blind eye to it then that 's our business you know but er but when you 're , when you 're actually erm |
| 19 | Because there is a way forward , it is about negotiation , it is about hunt the hunting community , it is about sharing ideas and looking for a way forward , going forward from here , well to turn a blind eye to what goes on and vote for that amendment is very similar to what Hitler did in Germany fifty years ago . |