Example sentences of "not afford [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems a bit unfair to people who can not afford to update their computer every 12 months . |
| 2 | ‘ Many of the victims can not afford to celebrate Christmas because of the actions of the banks . |
| 3 | Darlington Council says it can not afford to celebrate the 150th anniversary of North Road station due to its ‘ extremely difficult ’ financial situation . |
| 4 | However , Tourism Minister Mihai Lupoi had admitted on Jan. 3 that people wishing to travel to the West would have to find their own hard currency , since the state could not afford to sell any in exchange for lei . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And resorts , tour operators and shops can not afford to advertise if they are on the breadline . |
| 7 | They simply can not afford to sit back when , each year , some 300 youngsters are straining at the leash to get into their midst via the Qualifying Schools . |
| 8 | They had an excellent position , but for the fact that there was an army between them and home , and with England at their backs , and bitterly conscious of their recent attentions , they could not afford to sit still and wait to wear out the enemy . |
| 9 | But he can not afford to sit back on the basis that Everton are too big a club to go down . |
| 10 | I was 20 yards ahead and I could not afford to let Lenihan catch up . ’ |
| 11 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
| 12 | Up to a point they will , but they can not afford to let rescuing the banks sap their competitiveness , whether against other Japanese firms or against foreign ones . |
| 13 | America can not afford to let down its blacks for much longer . |
| 14 | ‘ Eat up , ’ Isabel said , ‘ we can not afford to let things go to waste . |
| 15 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 16 | The world market for tourism is now so competitive that we can not afford to let our efforts stall . |
| 17 | Given the current circumstances and strains , we can not afford to let anyone else into the country . |
| 18 | We can not afford to let the Labour Party go on unopposed , cos I feel that the Conservatives are struggling for candidates , in fact I know they are . |
| 19 | Banks can not afford to allow socialisation to continue . |
| 20 | The Cuban leader could not afford to allow anti-Soviet feeling to take a hold amongst the population . |
| 21 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 22 | She could not afford to allow her guard to slip . |
| 23 | We could not afford to allow the Borders farmers to suffer the terrible experience of stopping farming or reducing drastically their supplies of barley to the whisky industry . |
| 24 | ‘ We can not afford to allow political decisions to come before the commercial consequences of such an act . ’ |
| 25 | It has a hard fight ahead , one that the nation can not afford to see the BBC lose . |
| 26 | The Prussians did not see , did not want to see , could not afford to see , this side of life in their border districts . |
| 27 | ‘ I know what I want to say but I am not a millionaire and can not afford to see my family dragged into that kind of thing , ’ he said . |
| 28 | And those banks that lent more often had the worst of reasons for doing so : namely , the need to keep afloat borrowers whom their creditors could not afford to see sink . |
| 29 | There were too many houses he did not own ; and he could not afford to see any more built . |
| 30 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |