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afford - use in sentences
Object
- protection: The NBA Private Breeding Warranty affords better protection to sellers for use in Private Sales by individual members of the NBA.
- luxury: Landfill is expensive and many societies cannot afford the luxury ( ?
- repayment: Does your bank lend money to countries which cannot even afford the interest repayments?
- opportunity: All residents should be afforded the opportunity to inspect the account at any time.
- shelter: Many climbers and walkers owe their lives to the shelter afforded by MBA maintained bothies.
- view: T he huge circular keep affords wonderful views across the peaceful Cornish countryside.
Used with why or when
- that: If you cannot afford that then don't worry - all contributions help and are most welcome.
- when: Crook argues that discussion is more readily afforded when revision talk is mediated by a less singular, authorized and directive form of document.
Infinitive complement
- ignore: What business can afford to ignore 790 million people?
- buy: Can't they afford to buy their own meals?
- pay: I can't afford to pay a ton of money for a fancy program with stuff I don't need.
- miss: The short answer is: to open up opportunities we cannot afford to miss.
- lose: These days, no-one can afford to lose out in the skills stakes.
- repay: We don't let anyone borrow who we consider will not be able to afford to fully repay their loan.
Modifying Another Word
- longer: Young families who can no longer afford to buy homes on the open market more urgently need housing association accommodation.
- ill: The present system places a cost on universities which they can ill afford.
- n't: You ca n't afford to have too many people getting a free ride.
- comfortably: Buy big Get the largest memory card that you can comfortably afford.
- barely: My household income is over 0,000 a year and I could barely afford a 1950s rambler with a 0,000 downpayment.
- possibly: We couldn't possibly afford to print different labels for each country, we are too small for that.
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