afford a view
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For people who can’t afford a view suite, the main benefit of losing the viaduct is elimination of its 80-decibel traffic roar.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2019
East Germany claims the fortified frontier is purely defensive, but many watchtowers do not even afford a view of West Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hagioscope, hag′-, or hā′ji-o-skōp, n. an oblique opening in the screen or chancel wall of a church to afford a view of the chief altar to those in a side chapel or aisle, a squint.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The park was very extensive, and enclosed by a high wall, which had light iron gratings placed here and there, to afford a view of the surrounding country.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
They glanced into the garden—a spacious park-like enclosure terminating in a declivity, so as to afford a view over the sea far below.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
