Example sentences of "[am/are] too poor [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mother says we 're too poor to have a fire , but there were always fires at our other house , and — ’ |
| 2 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 3 | The Morans are too poor to afford cheap shoes . |
| 4 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 5 | One obvious disadvantage of a telephone survey is that it does not represent people who are too poor to afford telephones . |
| 6 | Not only does this mean that the rural population is not being fully utilised in terms of labour power , it also means they are too poor to provide a substantial market for industry . |