Example sentences of "could [not/n't] afford a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President France-Albert René , who seized power in a coup in 1977 , had previously resisted pressure to end one-party rule on the grounds that the country could not afford a plural system . |
| 2 | We could not afford a cavalier approach . |
| 3 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 4 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
| 5 | Hamlet [ his father could n't afford a large cigar when he was born ] , steadied himself against a stanchion on the underside of the rig . |