Example sentences of "afford [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavily indebted , the firm could no longer afford to lose money making $20,000 outfits for a handful of wealthy women . |
| 2 | If your elderly parent has a family solicitor who knows her and her circumstances well , he will be the best person to give expert advice on the investment of her capital , but if she prefers to rely solely upon your advice you should encourage her to put safety first in this matter , for unless someone is very wealthy , and can afford to lose money occasionally , playing the stock market is a foolish and risky game in later life . |
| 3 | These days , universities can not afford to lose money , however intelligently . |
| 4 | We ca n't afford to lose shipyard skills |
| 5 | We ca n't afford to lose shipyard skills |
| 6 | We ca n't afford to lose shipyard skills |
| 7 | In the case of those who gave financial difficulties as the main reason for not doing a course , specific responses included ‘ could n't afford to lose income ’ or that ‘ course fees were too expensive ’ . |
| 8 | Social theory generally ( and urban social theory especially ) can not afford to lose sight of people 's own understandings of the social world . |
| 9 | We can not afford to turn work away and we can not afford to lose work , ’ a spokesman for Babcock Thorn , Rosyth 's management company , said last night . |
| 10 | I ca n't afford to lose hir . |
| 11 | They ca n't afford to lose time because they 've got to be out for the bairns . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No book which offers an overarching educational theory of higher education can afford to neglect teaching and learning ; or so it must seem . |
| 14 | Without an away win since April , Leeds were continually harassed could ill afford to spurn gilt edge changes like that and Watford continued to harass the champions out of their stride in midfield . |
| 15 | Indeed , a confident SGI can still afford to open manufacturing sites when most others are ducking for cover . |
| 16 | In other words — in , to be precise , the words of the public relations bureau of the Cucumber and Tomato Marketing Board — the tomato which commands the highest price is an all-purpose ( or is it non-purpose ? ) product ; " not every mouth " and I quote " can afford to choose caviare instead of kippers or an aristocratic difficult low yielding variety of tomato rather than a less fastidious tomato with a heavy yield . " |
| 17 | Which means that now you can afford to install gas in all your homes , whatever the size . |
| 18 | In fact , in this present market , the question is n't can you afford to install gas central heating . |
| 19 | ‘ Many of the victims can not afford to celebrate Christmas because of the actions of the banks . |
| 20 | No chemistry department can afford to purchase software without reference to this authoritative guide . |
| 21 | I recommend that , unless you can afford to fit extractor fans and a controlled heating system , you look at the support materials you are currently using . |
| 22 | He had been too busy with his music composition to miss the books , and even if he could afford to play golf his hands would n't let him . |
| 23 | We have to welcome this money because Cleveland ca n't afford to play party politics when opportunities on this scale arise . |
| 24 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 25 | The flat had a bathroom and toilet and , if you could afford to buy coal , you could have hot water . |
| 26 | Absenteeism and drop-outs among adults were increasingly common because , as teachers in this school pointed out , either they were too busy working to earn enough to live on , or they could n't afford to buy paper and other materials . |
| 27 | At one gig in Cork they were so skint they could n't afford to buy beer , and instead took the crusty way out and raided the local mixture . |
| 28 | He said that permitted grain imports since March had totalled only 100,000 tonnes , half the normal monthly grain requirements , and " only 15 per cent of our people can afford to buy food on the free market " . |
| 29 | In these times well financed companies can afford to tread water and pick off suitable acquisitions without pressure . |
| 30 | I ca n't afford to give way to my emotions . |