Example sentences of "who can [adv] afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | What makes this behaviour more worrying is the fact that the industry is now dominated by recently-assembled global media conglomerates or big electronics firms who can ill afford it . |
| 2 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 3 | It would benefit many pensioners who can well afford the fee and would mean that other licence holders would have to pay £116 for their colour licence . |
| 4 | Now point number two is a general charge of this kind will affect different families in widely differing ways , and quite clearly there will be some families who can well afford to pay that charge , and there will be other people who can not , and maybe the case that you were quoting me is an example of that . |
| 5 | In July it is full of clothiers from Leeds , and cutlers from Sheffield , and red-nosed Cockneys who can barely afford the one-guinea subscription to the sulphur well . |
| 6 | It is called , ‘ An East End Doctor 's Surgery ’ , and tells of his morning with his patients , their problems , and the difficulties of giving adequate medical care to those who can barely afford it — even when the doctor is good-hearted — as this one plainly is . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the teams are run by unemployed people who can barely afford the charges as they stand . |
| 8 | Sacrifices must start at the very top with those who can most afford them . |
| 9 | Primarily from those who can most afford to pay . |
| 10 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 11 | A Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6LS drops £500 to £11,100 , a Rover 820SI £738 to £17,712 and , for those who can still afford it , a Lotus Esprit can be snapped up for £45,878 , a cut of £1,912 . |
| 12 | Of course , they 'll be a few exceptions to this price freeze — mostly those more old-fashioned suppliers like IBM and Hewlett-Packard who can still afford to drop their prices by a notch or two . |
| 13 | The well-to-do have moved from the towns to live or buy houses in the countryside , contributing another pressure on the young who can least afford to pay the high prices thus created . |
| 14 | But regrettably , erm , it 's , this is another example of the disadvantaged and those who can least afford it , to er , look after themselves who 're having to suffer . |
| 15 | The Audit Commission pointed out that 4 million people would be lifted out of the penury of having to pay it and that it would be possible to concentrate on those who can genuinely afford to pay but who do not . |
| 16 | This view of cats is shared by people who have , and who can perhaps afford to have , the idea of ‘ animals as pets ’ . |