Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] afford [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 2 | [ But ] the author excludes too many dialectical tensions from the book at the start : no church music will be considered ; no worrying about those Americans who could n't afford sheet music and a piano in the parlor is allowed either ; and no room for primarily instrumental music like marches , ragtime , jazz , or polka music up to 1950 . |
| 3 | Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . |
| 4 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 5 | And your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper for her pussy , so when she slides down the banister and says like blurgh , la blah la blah loo ! |
| 6 | SOME people ca n't afford Poll Tax but those spongers who simply refuse to pay should have their names published in local papers so the community can see who the free-loaders are . |
| 7 | Structural adjustment programmes are conditional on countries cutting back on basics like food and education , they can not afford forest conservation officers . |