Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb mod] afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could be cynically exploited by a side who could afford to concede at least two penalties in a game 's dying stages and still win . |
| 2 | In fact its usually planetillionaires and the like who can afford a Posi . |
| 3 | ( b ) They all operate on a very broad restriction against acting for clients who can afford to pay solicitors ’ fees . |
| 4 | Let those spend fortunes on their homes who can afford it : the same look can often be achieved more economically . |
| 5 | Our children will suffer — but not those of rich parents who can afford to send them to public schools . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that in species where reproductive success varies more widely among males than females and is influenced by parental investment , parents who can afford to invest heavily in their offspring should produce sons while those that can not do so should tend to produce daughters ( Trivers & Willard , 1973 ) . |
| 7 | Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . " |
| 8 | In other words , Indian parents who could afford amniocentesis , the rich ones , wanted sons and they certainly did n't want daughters , because they aborted ninety five point five percent of the daughters but none of the sons , even when the sons were genetically defective . |
| 9 | But the people who suffer , again , are the poor — the shanty-town dwellers who can afford less food because the subsidy has disappeared overnight ; the rural villagers whose primary health post stands empty ; the children who emulate the illiteracy and ignorance of their grandparents rather than their better educated parents . |
| 10 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 11 | A ‘ penny wedding ’ was a marriage celebration , the equivalent of a modern wedding reception , at which the guests who could afford to do so gave a penny or other coin towards employing a fiddler to provide music for dancing . |
| 12 | Some other early Macedonians , the sort who could afford to be buried in graves with inscriptions , were also plainly Greek . |
| 13 | ‘ We did not want to have poorer people paying slightly extra to subsidise those wealthier individuals who can afford to pay up on time , ’ said council leader Michael Carr . |
| 14 | I 've never yet met a claimant who could afford a television licence . |
| 15 | However , for families who can afford to pay the fees , the poor record of state schools makes private education seem attractive , even if in reality its quality is poor . |
| 16 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 17 | The NI has always been concerned to point out what is wrong with the Green Revolution : that it favours richer farmers who can afford its high-yield seeds and extra fertiliser ; that its ecological impact is worrying . |
| 18 | If it has loving owners who can afford central heating , this breed presents no problems , but it has remained largely outlawed by the various cat societies . |
| 19 | You 're the last person who can afford to make that journey . ’ |
| 20 | These were people of means who could afford to foot the bill : no appeal to the fear of physical pain was needed here . |
| 21 | Katie said : ‘ Those are the people who can afford to pay . ’ |
| 22 | Is it any wonder that the only people who can afford their services are rich companies , millionaires and those who are lucky enough to get legal aid ? |
| 23 | ‘ The sort of people who can afford handcrafted learning toys do n't shop at the wrong end of the Pimlico Road . ’ |
| 24 | With a price of $25,000 there are only so many people who can afford the latter ! |
| 25 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 26 | Another objection is that jobs will be lost and certainly that would be a serious objection but it 's a speechless one , of course , people who can afford it will still ride and will still employ the same people who are now hunt servants er to look after their horses and themselves and those who ca n't afford horses will continue no doubt to enjoy the spectacle er , that argument does n't hold water and the other objection of course er is that er it would mean the hounds were killed , but since I understand er hunting people kill their hounds anyway when they get too old to keep up , er I think er we can dismiss that argument and leave it to them er to see that the hounds are decently dealt with . |
| 27 | but people who can afford to pay for it will be , will be made to at the time |
| 28 | And there 's an advertisement here for Cyclax stocking cream for people who could afford it . |
| 29 | In 1924 most of the athletes in the British team were students or people who could afford the privilege of running for their country . |
| 30 | Apart from the fact that I think most people were able to afford a far bigger range of furnishings , for instance , the number of homes that actually had a carpet in the living room , there was very small percentage of people who could afford to have any sort of carpeting except for a small square of something in their living room . |