Example sentences of "can not afford to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 2 | We ca n't afford to be annihilated . |
| 3 | We ca n't afford to be made fools of . ’ |
| 4 | Never mind the title , you ca n't afford to be reckless in this brain-bending game . |
| 5 | A favourite of many and an all-time classic you ca n't afford to be without . |
| 6 | We ca n't afford to be caught making what they would take as an act of aggression . ’ |
| 7 | After all , I am paying his salary , and we ca n't afford to be without him for six months . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got to be patient with players in the side but I ca n't afford to be patient for too long . ’ |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I ca n't afford to be emotional about it all and stay on a high . |
| 10 | Serious chipmakers ca n't afford to be out of the market , and Hitachi Ltd has announced that it has developed a new type of AND gate for Flash memory , which achieves the world 's smallest cell surface memory of just 1.28 square microns . |
| 11 | Mrs. Channing will be in no frame of mind for chatter with any of the people she knows , and ca n't afford to be questioned about her state of mind . |
| 12 | There 's one young I work with who ca n't afford to be a member of Clydebank football , Ladies , Women 's Football Club , she 's seventeen , she 's on bridging allowance , she has n't got the money to pay the , the six pound a week it would cost her ! |
| 13 | ‘ A man in my position , he ca n't afford to be anything else , he 's got to consider his image . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't afford to be . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't afford to be off work for a couple of weeks ! |
| 16 | And you ca n't afford to be too closed to the outside world . |
| 17 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 18 | They ca n't afford to be held up . |
| 19 | You ca n't afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to your handbag … |
| 20 | With one of the season 's biggest betting events , Royal Ascot , starting on Tuesday , you simply ca n't afford to be without the Echo . |
| 21 | you ca n't afford to be ill in America , I tell you what |
| 22 | As one described it , neighbourhood policing requires constables who know that ‘ All you learn in the classroom is what your powers are ’ , and that ‘ You do n't learn about the real facts of police work until you 're out actually doing it ’ , and that you can not afford to be ‘ heavy-handed ’ . |
| 23 | Dr Dan Tunstall-Pedoe , a cardiologist who directs the Marathon 's medical team , can not afford to be quite so sanguine . |
| 24 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 25 | Northern Ireland companies have been successful in the area of export development but they can not afford to be complacent about what lies ahead . |
| 26 | As a PLC we would have the greater freedom and flexibility vitally needed to match the increasing pace of change and to provide new or different services — and we can not afford to be too slow or too late . |
| 27 | But we can not afford to be so self-indulgent and dismissive . |
| 28 | You can not afford to be within range of the knife ; one stab in the wrong place and it 's all over . |
| 29 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
| 30 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |