Example sentences of "[noun pl] fit for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 2 | Whilst the extension of the franchise and Christopher Addison 's hopes for building the ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ showed a genuine desire for the radical elements in government to reform British society , the fact that Britain needed to export nearly one-third of her output to pay for essential imports necessitated the re-establishment of settled trading patterns and the development of new markets . |
| 3 | Lloyd George 's promise of ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ was implemented in the ‘ Addison ’ Act of 1919 , which first stimulated widespread local authority housing construction . |
| 4 | At the end of the war Lloyd George promised ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ , and one of the first pieces of postwar legislation was a Housing Act that provided government subsidies to local authorities to build houses for the working classes . |
| 5 | It was Addison , formerly President of the Local Government Board , but with its demise now the first Minister of Health , who introduced the programme which articulated Lloyd George 's election promise to the voters of Wolverhampton in November 1918 that returning soldiers should have ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ . |
| 6 | Reports on housing , drawing upon the experience of model estates built before the war and during it for special groups such as munition workers , paved the way for the massive scheme of ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ inaugurated by the post-war coalition government . |
| 7 | Working people had new expectations as to just rents and as to the housing conditions they should enjoy ( encapsulated in the political slogan " homes fit for heroes " ) . |
| 8 | With their conveniences and their pleasant facades , the two cottages justify her affirmation , which exactly echoes Loudon 's own conviction , that ‘ Life in cottages might be happier than ours , if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections . ’ |
| 9 | They are gifts fit for a king , and so they are meant to be . |
| 10 | Only the experience of freedom could now makes slaves fit for it . |
| 11 | While Sunderland struggle to get key players fit for the vital relegation run-in , there was good news yesterday concerning tough defender Kevin Ball . |
| 12 | The men fit for fighting were moving down there , in thick leather jackets and helmets , with their spears and hunting-axes , their clubs and their knives and their bows , with satchels packed by their wives with barley-bread and some lard , a goatsmilk cheese and a bit of dried fish and mutton , with a few onions , fresh-dug , for savour . |
| 13 | Children fit for nothing |
| 14 | She has created pop 's answer to Barbarella , dressing her up in clothes fit for a material girl . |
| 15 | Off the peg … the clothes fit for a future king . |
| 16 | ‘ Father , ’ said Master James earnestly , ‘ I never before saw poor devils living wild wearing good leather jerkins and solid boots , and daggers fit for a baron 's guard . ’ |