Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] afford [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I Ca n't afford credit . |
| 2 | He says I ca n't afford scrap . |
| 3 | My initial recourse in such circumstances is to dive into Nicolas Slonimsky 's Baker 's biographical Dictionary of Musicians ( no , I ca n't afford Grove either , but Baker 's is much more entertaining in any case ) . |
| 4 | I ca n't afford fear . |
| 5 | I use them a lot to get around and a lot of other people do and I ca n't afford taxis . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
| 7 | I can not afford weeks . ’ |
| 8 | IF you are depressed or anxious , having relationship difficulties or worried about work , finding a qualified counsellor to talk things over with is n't always easy — especially if you ca n't afford fees of between £15 and £30 an hour , or do n't feel able to wait the weeks or even months it can take to get an appointment . |
| 9 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 10 | Another objection is that jobs will be lost and certainly that would be a serious objection but it 's a speechless one , of course , people who can afford it will still ride and will still employ the same people who are now hunt servants er to look after their horses and themselves and those who ca n't afford horses will continue no doubt to enjoy the spectacle er , that argument does n't hold water and the other objection of course er is that er it would mean the hounds were killed , but since I understand er hunting people kill their hounds anyway when they get too old to keep up , er I think er we can dismiss that argument and leave it to them er to see that the hounds are decently dealt with . |
| 11 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 12 | Many of the owners had once been renters , thus , suggesting a pattern where young migrants , who can not afford land or property rent until they have sufficient savings to set up a home of their own . |
| 13 | Lack of travel concessions are another area involving burdens for many pensioners who can not afford cars and have to rely on public transport . |
| 14 | If you can not afford saffron , use turmeric , but you will miss the delicate fragrance of the Spanish spice . |
| 15 | ‘ We ca n't afford Remy Martin . |
| 16 | We ca n't afford losses . |
| 17 | That 's the problem — each house has to be economically independent after the preliminary conversion , you see , so we ca n't afford nursing staff . |
| 18 | When one of the children asks his mam for some coffee she says , " We ca n't afford coffee any more , son . " |
| 19 | We ca n't afford people like Mortimer to , I mean he scored a goal but I mean |
| 20 | In those types of applications those types of systems , we can not afford inavailability of information we need to invest significant sums of money if fault tolerant hardware in mirrored disks in duplex networks . |
| 21 | We can not afford failure . |
| 22 | Yes , a lot of people think they ca n't afford T N T. |
| 23 | Jo and Maggie , both early twenties but looking thirty , dressed by jumble sales as they ca n't afford Silvex Modes prices , gaze at each other over the plastic pots of mustard on the formica table top . |
| 24 | RUSSIA 'S famous Kirov ballet company are feeling the chill — they ca n't afford tights . |
| 25 | Elderly people who worry that they ca n't afford VAT on fuel are putting their lives at risk by buying second hand paraffin heaters . |
| 26 | Many families do n't have a car and some say they can not afford taxi fares . |
| 27 | More than 60 per cent of households in Nigeria rely on firewood for cooking purposes , partly due to ignorance and partly due to the fact that they can not afford kerosene stoves or gas cookers . |
| 28 | The prison officers can not afford accommodation in both places — in fact , they can not afford accommodation in either — and they are contemplating leaving the prison service for what will probably be a life on the dole . |
| 29 | Many people now go without the necessary treatment because they can not afford prescriptions . |
| 30 | Structural adjustment programmes are conditional on countries cutting back on basics like food and education , they can not afford forest conservation officers . |