Example sentences of "turn a blind eye to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff must show that the defendant has turned a blind eye to truth in order to advance an ulterior object . |
| 2 | The national populous actually turned a blind eye to atrocities that were happening with human beings . |
| 3 | The points were made that parking there can not be dangerous as it is permitted during part of the year , and that the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to cars parked outside the church during services . |
| 4 | The Waco sheriff habitually turned a blind eye to Koresh 's activities . |
| 5 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
| 6 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ , |
| 8 | turning a blind eye to harassment of you by your colleagues ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Macbeth , for example , asks us some very difficult questions about ( amongst other things ) the relationship between power and sexuality , about acquiescence in the face of evil and turning a blind eye to things we 'd rather not know about . |
| 11 | The referee was a complete twat Roger Dilkes , a miserable midget who contrived to spoil what was already a poor game by turning a blind eye to West Ham 's negative game and penalising Leeds wherever possible . |
| 12 | Honouring someone does not mean turning a blind eye to weakness . |
| 13 | Now that sort of policy does have its problems because some people would say that is allowing people to break the law , it 's turning a blind eye to people who are breaking the law . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Councils have been turning a blind eye to shops opening on Sunday because of the uncertainty over what the Euro-judges would decide . |
| 16 | The authority plans to stop turning a blind eye to disability and war pension income when calculating community benefits charge and housing benefits . |
| 17 | TEACHERS are turning a blind eye to pupils smoking at school , a report reveals today . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | In thirty years , if she had not learned to turn a blind eye to Bernard 's excesses , she had learned nothing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The metaphor is unusual , drawing attention to the invitation to whitewash , cover up , turn a blind eye to evil . |