Example sentences of "not afford [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting in Glasgow city halls , he said : ‘ The party can not afford to indulge in internal bickering and name-calling . |
| 2 | Those who can not afford to go to many concerts or buy records , or who live far from the centres of music-making , can hear much good orchestral music by radio . |
| 3 | A serious photographer can not afford to work in any tropical paradise without shooting from the air . |
| 4 | We have no wish to ruin the stationers who make a profit in this way but , if you are studying and making notes correctly , you will need vast quantities of paper , which you clearly can not afford to buy in this costly fashion . |
| 5 | You agreed that a tiered membership structure ( with stepped rates ) was valuable in enabling those who could not afford to contribute above this lower rate to continue doing so . |
| 6 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 7 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |
| 8 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |