Example sentences of "[adv] can not afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the battlefield , a night patrol about to scout out the lie of the land , or mount a surprise attack , obviously can not afford to stumble around with flashlights pointing in all directions . |
| 2 | Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment , the hard financial investment , stored in our built environment . |
| 3 | Is it that institutions have to prepare people to work in traditional as well as up-to-date professional settings , and so can not afford to be too ‘ progressive ’ ? |
| 4 | Jim said : ‘ We face eviction next spring because we just can not afford that kind of money . |
| 5 | We just can not afford any significant shortfall in our subscription income . |
| 6 | You just CAN NOT afford to pick an inferior side so it will gel , or possibly get better together . |
| 7 | ‘ The plain fact is we are a small independent company , and we just can not afford to spend 2m ( pounds ) on new printing machines . |
| 8 | Well it 's a case , I 've got to get rid of that thing cos I can not just I just can not afford fifteen quid a day petrol ! |
| 9 | Arrangements may have to be made for existing £6 membership who genuinely can not afford more but who would like to continue to receive the magazine . |
| 10 | More importantly , some commentators suggest that the central issue is that most locals still can not afford owner-occupied housing ( Docklands Forum , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
| 12 | Two years later she still can not afford to get a divorce . |
| 13 | He probably can not afford to get his fill . |
| 14 | He also can not afford to get pulled out of position in the line-out . |
| 15 | We have no wish to ruin the stationers who make a profit in this way but , if you are studying and making notes correctly , you will need vast quantities of paper , which you clearly can not afford to buy in this costly fashion . |
| 16 | If you really can not afford this payment talk it over with your teacher as most will help out if they possibly can . |
| 17 | Mrs Banham and her husband Andy , a roof tiler , considered going private , but that would cost more than £1,250 , and since their other son , one-year-old Ross , needs the same operation they really can not afford it . |
| 18 | ‘ This would then reduce the waiting list for those parents that really can not afford it . |
| 19 | We know that roughly 10 million people in Britain today can not afford adequate housing ; that 7 million people go without essential clothing , such as a warm , waterproof coat for the winter , and that about 2.5 million children are growing up in families that go without the essential things in life , such as three meals a day , toys and out-of-school activities . |
| 20 | And , in the battle for sporting hearts and minds , Irish rugby simply can not afford that unhappy situation . |
| 21 | I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford . |
| 22 | ‘ When money is tight they simply can not afford to take a gamble on making a mistake and getting the wrong product . |
| 23 | Every year , your body replaces 20% of its bone calcium and you simply can not afford to fall behind in this natural process . |
| 24 | I simply can not afford to buy gadgets and not use them . |
| 25 | Since breeding success declines through the season , females simply can not afford to waste time checking to see whether a particular male is paired or not . |
| 26 | Meta says its problems have been compounded by the rise of IBM 's DRDA , which is seeing a tidy flow of SAG members defect to its ranks , including Oracle and Informix , who say they simply can not afford not to pick up DRDA because of IBM 's huge installation base . |
| 27 | A second reason is that many smaller farms simply can not afford to pay higher wages because of the low price elasticity for farm products ( Bellerby 1956 ; Metcalf 1969 ) . |
| 28 | They simply can not afford to sit back when , each year , some 300 youngsters are straining at the leash to get into their midst via the Qualifying Schools . |
| 29 | Britain simply can not afford anomalies that are so damaging to one of its strategic manufacturing industries , to its balance of payments , not to mention tax revenue . |
| 30 | After all these years in office , does not the Minister yet understand that the British consumer simply can not afford the exorbitant cost of the CAP , which does not exactly help the British farmer either ? |