Example sentences of "afford [to-vb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ? |
| 2 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's no one in my foster family who could afford to give even a few pounds away , ’ he said , ‘ and I certainly do n't have any rich friends . |
| 4 | And so the issue the discussion has focused on , from where I 'm sitting , seems to have focused on is , you know can one afford to let loose a strategic policy and could such a policy be written in a way that it would work for inward investment attraction without being a a Trojan horse as you know letting in a lot of other nasty things . |
| 5 | Ardrey may well have a point here , but there is no way we can afford to leave out the social and political ( or ‘ cultural ’ ) relations and processes underlying such conflicts . |
| 6 | The first , Parentline , allows parents to use their own homes as security for children who want to move , but can not afford to pay off the original loan first . |
| 7 | Although the latter 's earnings fell its dividend is handsomely covered , while a company like Rentokil is growing so healthily that it can afford to pay out the extra £1 million that its generosity has cost . |
| 8 | And today , only the state can afford to lay out a complete new town . |
| 9 | We can afford to take both a larger and longer view . |
| 10 | If we 're confident that you can afford to take on the extra commitment , we 're quite happy to agree a second loan . |