Example sentences of "a blind eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
| 3 | Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd already turned a blind eye when a couple of his lorries got hi-jacked . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Camp authorities are either unaware of this or turn a blind eye . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It is hard to turn a blind eye to something so obvious and widespread , ’ wrote the author of a forestry text in 1962 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | There are occasions when the Nelson touch is needed and a blind eye turned when events are not turning out quite as well as planned . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band . |
| 20 | turning a blind eye to harassment of you by your colleagues ; |
| 21 | Some parents are better at turning a blind eye than others . |
| 22 | If sweet reason and turning a blind eye are not enough and you feel you have to use some form of punishment , do so without excessive anger or physical force . |
| 23 | There is no question of the SFA turning a blind eye to the incident … |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | We sing dumb anyway Turn a blind eye , |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 28 | Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If events contradict the way we see things , we may either turn a blind eye or resist hotly . |