Example sentences of "[noun sg] fit for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors , with rich pickings for the strong . |
| 2 | He was born heir to the betrayed promise of the Great War , after which another Welshman had assured the returning British soldier of a ‘ home fit for heroes to live in ’ . |
| 3 | In the longer term the failure of the National Coalition , and the Conservative and Labour governments in the 1920s , to create the ‘ home fit for heroes ’ , turned some towards more radical solutions for Britain 's problems than the return to normalcy and safety-first politics of what Mosley was to call the old gangs of British politics . |
| 4 | She warned fellow women workers that it was useless to address workingmen with ‘ plain commonplaces ’ ; what was needed was vivid and dramatic language : ‘ the men want strong meat , thoughts as racy as their own expressions ; they reject sweet pap fit for children . ’ |
| 5 | I shall quote Mr. David Brown , Kent secretary of the National Association of Governors and Managers : ’ Kent youngsters are being short-changed with an education fit for peasants ’ . |
| 6 | I 'd imagined that they would eat food fit for pigs , and look upon our food with distaste . |
| 7 | A land fit for tortoises |
| 8 | The tasks of reconstruction were perceived as equally urgent in the period 1939–45 , even if the rhetoric of building a land fit for heroes could not be plausibly employed for a second time . |
| 9 | The 1920s was the decade of the General Strike , the stock market collapse , Prohibition in the USA , the first crossing of the Atlantic by an aeroplane ( Charles Lindbergh ) , the decade during which the optimism of a ‘ Land fit for Heroes to Live in ’ turned sour with rising unemployment and widespread poverty . |
| 10 | So much for the land fit for heroes . |
| 11 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 12 | It is perhaps worth remembering that the Beveridge Report was published as early as 1942 ; it embodied the aspirations of so many who had been disappointed by the failure of Lloyd George 's ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ to materialise . |
| 13 | The government that had won the war would smooth the transition to peace and would redeem its promise of a land fit for heroes . |
| 14 | Although the promise of a ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ secured a victory for Lloyd George and his coalition government in 1918 , it was soon to find its promises increasingly hard to fulfil as the post-war boom petered out and Britain moved into the years of the Slump . |
| 15 | Politicians fueled rather than played down the belief that Britain should become , in the words of one politician , " a land fit for heroes " once " the war to end all wars " was won — in other words , that provision should be made for those who had fought for King and Country . |