The phrase "affords it by" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express how something provides or grants something else, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The new policy affords it by allowing greater flexibility in work hours." (Note: This example still feels awkward due to the phrase used.)
Alternatives: "provides it through" or "grants it by means of".
The charity said that starting with this week's budget, the government should balance its books by raising revenues from those that could afford it – "by clamping down on companies and individuals who avoid paying their fair share of tax and starting to explore greater taxation of extreme wealth".
"I really wanted to wear couture," she said, "but I knew I could only afford it by buying secondhand".
"It's a big piece," Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, the principal of the academy, said recently, "and we couldn't have afforded it by ourselves.
They want to bring people into racing who otherwise could not afford it by offering them small shares in their horses.
Core drivers of growth We expect the 32% of sales coming from UK parcels to deliver good revenue growth, driven by online retail spend and Royal Mail Group's unique competitive advantage afforded it by a dual-use core network.
But Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, said the advertising "makes enormous sense; it informs a share of the public that they could afford it by seeing the price".
Then again, you could have said the same thing about last year's winner, Young Fathers' idiosyncratic hip hop album Dead, which the public decided to pass on, despite the extra publicity afforded it by their Mercury triumph.
At one point, the narrator asks, "Was there in art a more profound reality, in which our true personality finds an expression that is not afforded it by the activities of life?" The sentence paints a picture of European civilization in majestic repose, with music shining at its center.
Restricting care for those who can afford it by using government price controls to strong-arm producers is not.
However, Martin says the jet pack should be commercially available to anyone (who can afford it) by 2015.
