cannot afford

Examples of afforded

afforded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This, combined with the fact that the plants are relatively small and afforded few places to hide, resulted in high detection probabilities.
For workers as "cell proprietors" were to be afforded crucial domains of discretion, albeit ones traversed by tensions and potential conflicts.
The local rural economies to which men returned afforded few cashcropping or other productive opportunities.
The study probed whether information about blame-relevant attributions added to the prediction of symptomatology above the prediction afforded by information on maltreatment severity alone.
Practising architects are rarely if ever afforded such an open-ended position.
He asserts that it is therefore more beneficial to focus upon what a welfare state does, rather than how much money it is afforded.
With no accompanying instruments, the choir was thrust centre-stage and relished every opportunity afforded them to show off their impeccable intonation and ensemble.
If privacy is afforded, people are able to exercise choice over what they do without encroaching on other residents.
The pupils relished the independence afforded by access to twelve computer workstations, and worked very hard.
This enrichment of the phrase-structural inventory may have afforded analytic success but it also raised questions as to its explanatory adequacy.
The workers stayed in the vicinity of their factories which may have afforded them some protection against police reprisals.
In approaching these questions, indirect assistance may be afforded by consideration of other forms of personal behaviour with a moral component.
We await details of what support will be afforded to workforce development under any new infrastructure.
We didn't use them every night, but we did break them more often than we could actually have afforded in real life.
It requires, at a minimum, that competent patients receive information and are afforded the opportunity for choice regarding healthcare offered to them.
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