Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb mod] n't afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just quite clearly put on record , and it 's a unanimous decision of the board , we wrote to Edinburgh District a few weeks ago , we 've told them that we will use our best endeavours David , to prosecute the application at Hammerston If we get planning consent and we decide that we ca n't afford a new stadium in total , because of the economic situation , we are aggressively re-looking at the redevelopment of Tynecastle . |
| 2 | It does n't make much difference to us , we 're not that hard up , that we ca n't afford |
| 3 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |
| 5 | But when the issue came before the Cabinet it decided in favour of the oil company : " The Foreign Office , the Commonwealth Office , the Ministry of Power , the D.E.A. ( Department of Economic Affairs ) and the Treasury all insisted that we could n't afford to upset a foreign oil company . " |
| 6 | I think I have to make the point to you that we are planning to roughly double the size of the er airforce equipment programme er between now and the end of the century , a very substantial chunk of that is E F two thousand and its er associated weapon systems and , you know , one has to frankly , take er a view on priorities er in the light of the strategic requirement and given the er extent of the threat as we see it , the possibility of using er of taking part in out of area operations in coalitions , that kind of thing , that was the judgement we took er the medium term priorities were such that we could n't afford the first er stage of A M S A M. |
| 7 | It was difficult not knowing if we 'd be able to give Eleanor everything we wanted to give her and knowing there were things she needed that we could n't afford . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But there were eight in my family , so we could n't afford for me to be a pro — they did n't get paid ! |
| 10 | Okay , so we could n't afford to compromise the Asmar network with a rescue operation , but there was another reason , too , why we had to leave them where they were . |
| 11 | we were , we were furniture made , you know , all we thought about was the home and in fact once we could n't afford any wall paper we were decorating so George painted the wall white and we got saucepan lids , and even the dustbin lid and with er , er , a black pen , felt type pen I suppose although felt pens were n't out then |
| 12 | ‘ He needs restraining and we ca n't afford to throw him away . ’ |
| 13 | After all , I am paying his salary , and we ca n't afford to be without him for six months . |
| 14 | We regularly go over the speed limit just to get to these places on time , and we ca n't afford to take the risk . |
| 15 | Dobson and his mob just laughed you off the street tonight and we ca n't afford that . ’ |
| 16 | We have to work as quickly and as safely as we possibly can and we ca n't afford to spend five minutes er searching a house , let alone a flat . |
| 17 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 18 | If we ca n't get anything else and we ca n't afford anything else we 've just got to go on paying it but |
| 19 | No , but I know that you 're dying to have a computer , and if money was no object , then we probably would n't hesitate in lending it to you , but really and truly at this moment things are tight and we ca n't afford to commit ourselves with things unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 20 | No , but I know that you 're dying to have a computer , and if money was no object , then we probably would n't hesitate in lending it to you , but really and truly at this moment things are tight and we ca n't afford to commit ourselves with things unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 21 | Seattle was 3,500 miles away , and we could n't afford the air fare . |
| 22 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 23 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 24 | Cos we ca n't afford to blow it out every see how much Nigel says it 's gon na cost first just do n't give me any more stress , please ! |
| 25 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 26 | Like going to a solicitor if we can afford it — or if we ca n't afford not to . |
| 27 | The Welshman pointed an accusing finger at his opponent , retorting , ‘ What 's the good of a national rate if we ca n't afford to live on it ? |
| 28 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 29 | Just do n't send him but if we ca n't afford it then , we just do n't know what 's gon na happen do we ? |
| 30 | An if we could n't afford the price of admission , we found other distractions . |