Example sentences of "[n mass] [pron] can [not/n't] afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarissa , who started as the NCDL 's Public Relations Officer before her talents were put to wider use as Chief Executive , is currently promoting the Neutering Roadshow , where people who ca n't afford to have their dogs neutered pay just £10 for a voucher , redeemable at their local vet . |
| 2 | Mm , normally er people who ca n't afford , hesitate to walk around . |
| 3 | There 's also a market there for people who ca n't afford to buy new product , and obviously still the engine 's still got life in it . |
| 4 | The desperation of people who ca n't afford to live on the pay that they are earning and who look forward to any means of change in that with hope and with optimism because things could n't get worse . |
| 5 | What we 're asking for is is a phone to the people who ca n't afford it to the police stations . |
| 6 | People who ca n't afford private treatment will be forced to visit school dentists or mobile dental surgeries . |
| 7 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 8 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 9 | Constructions built so that people who can not afford to leave or sail away can feel that they are almost leaving . |
| 10 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 11 | Yet as we shall see in the next chapter , with poorer clients the problem is not simply one of providing lawyers for people who can not afford them from their own resources . |
| 12 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 13 | He will also be aware that the planning system can now be used to require a developer to make provision for a percentage of homes specifically for young people who can not afford to buy on the open market . |
| 14 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |
| 15 | There will always be vast numbers of people who can not afford to pay . |
| 16 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 17 | It seems a bit unfair to people who can not afford to update their computer every 12 months . |
| 18 | Why are hospital patients discharged so quickly and what happens to people who can not afford the expense of convalescent care . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ I think it is terrible that puppies can be dumped and left to die when the RSPCA is giving so much help to people who can not afford the vet 's bill for sterilisation . |