Example sentences of "afford [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it is now becoming increasingly apparent that neither superpower can afford to sustain the level of economic and military aid that has been provided hitherto to allies and client states . |
| 2 | The Brazilian government , apparently unaware of the huge unrealised economic asset going up in flames across the Amazon , says it can not afford to preserve the rainforest because it needs economic development . |
| 3 | We ca n't afford to miss the water ration . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd refuse them admission altogether if I could afford to lose the business . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the Second Division , neither side can afford to lose the clash between fourth placed Dunston and leaders Stockton at Federation Park . |
| 7 | If you can not afford to invest the maximum allowed each year or would rather make regular monthly savings than invest in lump sums , you can put by as little as £10 per month . |
| 8 | The corruption went unchecked because the system could not afford to acknowledge the extent of its own inefficiencies and failures . |
| 9 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |
| 10 | The private sector therefore , need the support of an educated , employed and motivated community as much as the community needs the support of industry and commerce , and when I 'm asked whether , in these harsh economic times , business can still afford to support the community . |
| 11 | Anyone who feels he can afford to risk the lion 's share of his £2,400 could have most of it in the opportunity trust . |
| 12 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 13 | The Carers National Association is concerned about what will happen to those people whose relatives can no longer afford to meet the cost of the top-up payments . |
| 14 | Okay , so we could n't afford to compromise the Asmar network with a rescue operation , but there was another reason , too , why we had to leave them where they were . |
| 15 | By the late 1980s no African government could afford to neglect the significance of the sector for the employment of the hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school leavers who were joining the labour market each year , and most were making policy statements which indicated some support for it . |
| 16 | If we are to combat any attempt of the Right to exploit issues involving sexuality in order to hang onto power , we can not afford to neglect the virtue of solidarity — which involves a certain restraint concerning our feelings bout what other people do in bed . |
| 17 | Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment , the hard financial investment , stored in our built environment . |
| 18 | It 's because Middlesbrough Council can not afford to increase the subsidy for concessionary fares from £1.35m . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , like everyone else we wonder how we can ever afford to replace the time expired capital equipment and infrastructure which was our legacy from the past 20 years of neglect . |
| 20 | While the state could not develop without female labour ( at one time , as a result of Stalin 's purges and World War II , there were 40% more women than men in the working population ) , equally , it could not afford to replace the role of the wife and mother in the home . |
| 21 | Sainsbury hope to build a store on United Bus company land at Grange Road , but owners Caldaire say they can not afford to sell the land because it has to give the Government a fixed percentage of the sale . |
| 22 | These were people of means who could afford to foot the bill : no appeal to the fear of physical pain was needed here . |
| 23 | Clearly there were many people who could n't afford to escape the heat of the city . |
| 24 | He is the number one draw in the game , sponsors will almost bankrupt their companies to get him and he can afford to play the market . |
| 25 | If you do decide to move , you should consider transferring an existing mortgage to your new property or getting a new one up to £30,000 , even if you could afford to buy the property outright . |
| 26 | But the Spanish government could n't afford to buy the collection . |
| 27 | ACO says charities ca n't afford to fill the care gap when they have huge deficits . |
| 28 | for the Water Board so he 's got quite a good job you know , but erm , I 'm , we could n't afford to put the other through the apprentice because I mean you had n't got the money had you then |
| 29 | Because of the nature of this sort of book you can afford to let the identity of the murderer become more obvious much earlier than if you were writing the classical blueprint . |
| 30 | Geoff Thorne of Canon UK confirms that with such healthy sales the major manufacturers can afford to let the boom be technology-driven for the time being . |