Example sentences of "can not afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not afford to lose your data . |
| 2 | If relatives can not afford to pay for the funeral they should seek assistance from the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 3 | They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it . |
| 4 | Some smaller breweries are understood to have stopped supplying the Famous Firkin wholesale division , as they can not afford the risk should it cease trading . |
| 5 | The seat is one of several in Rajasthan which the Janata Dal can not afford to lose if the combined opposition forces are to oust Mr Gandhi from power . |
| 6 | Both will play tomorrow at Gateshead for the defending National League champions , who can not afford too many more domestic slips following their opening-day defeat at unbeaten Brixton . |
| 7 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 8 | In the race to present the ‘ greenest ’ image in advance of the next election , the present government may find it prudent to revise its view that Britain can not afford such luxuries . |
| 9 | They have pursued this dream so fiercely that they can not afford to admit any self-doubt . |
| 10 | Some of the profits will be used to buy sophisticated instrumentation which Daresbury can not afford . |
| 11 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 12 | What he can not afford to bring into play is the kind of leadership veto that operated all those years ago against both Rab Butler and Iain Macleod . |
| 13 | As one described it , neighbourhood policing requires constables who know that ‘ All you learn in the classroom is what your powers are ’ , and that ‘ You do n't learn about the real facts of police work until you 're out actually doing it ’ , and that you can not afford to be ‘ heavy-handed ’ . |
| 14 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 15 | And , in the battle for sporting hearts and minds , Irish rugby simply can not afford that unhappy situation . |
| 16 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 17 | If you can not afford the coffee table then you can not afford the book . |
| 18 | If you can not afford the coffee table then you can not afford the book . |
| 19 | He has not seen his wife or their three children since July since he can not afford to travel home to Banchory , near Aberdeen . |
| 20 | In fact the Navy is no longer needed and it is a luxury the country can not afford . |
| 21 | If you can not afford saffron , use turmeric , but you will miss the delicate fragrance of the Spanish spice . |
| 22 | The Americans do not want to play the world 's policeman on their own , and can not afford to . |
| 23 | His difficulty is that , with his economic and diplomatic credit so low , he can not afford to antagonise the West on the Gulf . |
| 24 | The main results will be less cash to clean up spills in countries that can not afford an Alaskan scale of effort ; higher insurance rates for oil tankers ; and less seaworthy ships carrying oil down the coast of Maine . |
| 25 | Texan lawmakers , who are paid only $600 a month for their public service , argue that they can not afford to live in Austin . |
| 26 | To run a proper dictatorship , you can not afford to have newspapers denouncing your actions . |
| 27 | Sales at home have collapsed , because hospitals in the former East Germany can not afford expensive gear . |
| 28 | Germany can not afford to build a new airliner on its own , any more than Britain or France can . |
| 29 | Banks can not afford to allow socialisation to continue . |
| 30 | But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients . |