Example sentences of "can [adv] afford [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appearing before the Congressional subcommittee that will eventually decide the NEA 's fate , she declared , ‘ If we find a proposal that does not have the widest audience … we just ca n't afford to fund that ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We ca n't afford to do that kind of thing , ’ said Fagin . |
| 3 | We obviously ca n't afford to do that , on that scale , but what we can do , is fund into the regional scr er , screen commission at Birmingham , to their register , where they will hold details on what 's available , er , what houses , what large houses are available , things that can be set in , what lo what er , countryside there is , what facilities there are , what firms there are locally that can provide services to for a cost . |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't afford to do that , ’ said Gustave , scandalized . |
| 5 | The Trust ca n't afford to do that , and tonight meets to discuss the manor 's sale to Paddy McNally , a millionaire friend of the Duchess of York , who already owns property in nearby Sevenhampton . |
| 6 | I said I 've got an invoice outstanding for October , and I said I ca n't afford to do that ! |
| 7 | Ca n't afford to do that |
| 8 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 9 | Uninterruptible power supplies , because if the set of master files is sitting on a single server machine you ca n't afford to lose that either . |
| 10 | It 's not just about music — if that 's all you want , then go play on some street corner and do n't charge for it — it 's a seriously commercialised venture and you ca n't afford to take that fact too lightly , especially when you 're starting out . |
| 11 | The middle child is severely disabled and necessary d adaptations would cost him three thousand seven hundred , that 's what he 's got ta find , and he can not afford it , he ca n't afford to borrow that . |
| 12 | Here , on my home ground , I ca n't afford to make that kind of mistake . ’ |
| 13 | You can not afford to do that any more . |
| 14 | Governments , on one view , can not afford to leave that decision to the market because the stockmarket tends to reward those companies that abandon military R&D . |
| 15 | Those that have invested heavily in mainframes , according to Allen , can not afford to write that investment off . |
| 16 | Now point number two is a general charge of this kind will affect different families in widely differing ways , and quite clearly there will be some families who can well afford to pay that charge , and there will be other people who can not , and maybe the case that you were quoting me is an example of that . |