Example sentences of "afford [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd refuse them admission altogether if I could afford to lose the business . ’ |
| 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 | They are threatened by the spread of bigotry , but also by other conceptions of life — for example , those which look on originality , innovation , and diversity as luxuries which society can ill afford given the need for efficiency , productivity , or growth , or those which in a host of other ways depreciate freedom . |
| 13 | The second reason for pressing the educational question is that only the largest of our national museums can afford to mount the kinds of ‘ spectacular ’ exhibitions cited two paragraphs back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has a hard fight ahead , one that the nation can not afford to see the BBC lose . |
| 16 | ‘ When this happened some farmers used to say : ‘ I ca n't afford to hev the wheels done , ’ and they 'd stand the cart or the wagon in a pond until the felloes of the wheel swelled up . |
| 17 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 18 | But without television coverage , the promoters could not afford to meet the costs , and the Scots , Welsh and Irish looked like missing the opportunity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment , the hard financial investment , stored in our built environment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 25 | Of course , in Switzerland they can not do so because Switzerland is organised in cantons , and the canton of Ticino , where Lugano is , can not afford to indemnify the whole collection . |
| 26 | The question to be asked , therefore , is : can the nation afford to increase the resources it already feels obliged to expend on the very old ? |
| 27 | It 's because Middlesbrough Council can not afford to increase the subsidy for concessionary fares from £1.35m . |
| 28 | It could afford to hire the great arenas and fill them . |
| 29 | ‘ They did n't collect art simply for art 's sake , but also to demonstrate to those around them just how much power they possessed , that they could afford to hire the greatest names of the day . |
| 30 | 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 . |