Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] afford [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't afford professional rates . ’ |
| 3 | Because they say , Cor I ca n't afford that lot , you know |
| 4 | I ca n't afford another game of that . |
| 5 | I ca n't afford Yellow Pageses or phone books , but Thompsons might be a different matter . |
| 6 | She has never possessed boots or winter shoes : " I ca n't afford closed-in shoes , so I always wear sandals and in the winter I just put on two pairs of socks . " |
| 7 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 8 | ‘ I can not afford these charges , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Airport bosses argued that the facility was to cater for those who could not afford four-star charges . |
| 10 | An historic legal decision will give tens of thousands of European students who could not afford British college fees the right to apply for discretionary grants . |
| 11 | An historic legal decision will give tens of thousands of European students who could not afford British college fees the right to apply for discretionary grants . |
| 12 | Most people wore black and those who could n't afford dark clothing managed to borrow some , and the men wore hard hats . |
| 13 | Surely you ca n't afford such complications ? ’ |
| 14 | People who ca n't afford private treatment will be forced to visit school dentists or mobile dental surgeries . |
| 15 | There should also be more creches and nursery places for mothers who can not afford individual care for their children . |
| 16 | The poor or less well off who can not afford private health and pay school fees . |
| 17 | I would recommend an audible drop-off alarm to everyone , but for those who can not afford separate alarms the use of optonics , as long as they are in conjunction with a drop arm , clipped to the rear rod rest , are acceptable . |
| 18 | AS THE slump bites harder more and more families , who can not afford huge mortgage repayments , are being forced out of their own homes into the arms of landlords . |
| 19 | For those who can not afford this sort of treatment , but have plenty of time to spare , co-counselling may represent a viable alternative . |
| 20 | DIP systems come into their own when you need rapid access to paperwork or you can not afford long lead times between the documents arriving and being available for reference . |
| 21 | You can buy one of the many reproduction plaster or fibre-glass cornices by the foot and have it added to your room just under the ceiling or , if you can not afford this luxury , go for a stylish compromise with a paper border . |
| 22 | And it is no good buying your plane , if , after all the other costs , you can not afford enough MOGAS or 100LL to actually fly it . |
| 23 | we were , we were furniture made , you know , all we thought about was the home and in fact once we could n't afford any wall paper we were decorating so George painted the wall white and we got saucepan lids , and even the dustbin lid and with er , er , a black pen , felt type pen I suppose although felt pens were n't out then |
| 24 | We ca n't afford modern technology now , we 've got one of these old wind-up gramophones . |
| 25 | For instance , We ca n't afford that car highlights the price of the car , Our car could n't keep up with his highlights its performance , and The car crushed Arthur 's foot its weight . |
| 26 | But we 're a small country now : we ca n't afford big mistakes . ’ |
| 27 | He insists we ca n't afford another baby , and that 's that . |
| 28 | We ca n't afford any sloppiness . |
| 29 | We ca n't afford any delays . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We ca n't afford any Chernobyls in space , ’ says Shafto . |