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Surely she was at least entitled to demand an explanation. | She was definitely allowed to want an explanation. | She was not allowed a piece of cake. |
Most of the items you'll find in Madeira, like pretty hand-painted plates, planters, jugs, and jars, come from the mainland but if you're not traveling to other parts of the country, Madeira is still a good place to pick them up at bargain prices. | You can still find cheap hand-painted plates, jugs, and jars at Madeira. | Madeiran crafts are fragile and only for the wealthy. |
um-hum and i wanna play on the beach area too that's what i would do you know i'm just sitting here listening listening to your accent and thinking what a good time the computer's going to have with that | As I sit here listening to your accent I am thinking the computer is going to have a good time with it. | As I sit here ignoring you I think the computer is going to be miserable. |
Outside the valley, Nepal slumbered on, for all intents and purposes still in the Middle Ages. | In areas outside of the valley, Nepal did not see growth. | Outside the valley, Nepal saw a boom in the arts and sciences. |
Cheer up, old thing, it can't be helped. 26 "Can't it, though!" Tuppence's little chin shot out defiantly. | Tuppence thought it could be changed. | Tuppence stayed quiet and didn't say anything. |
Bad idea! | Terrible idea! | Most brilliant idea ever! |
Other commenters-including the Commission's Office of Consumer Advocate-expressed doubts regarding the legal soundness of one or both of the proposed variants of such agreements. | The Commission's Office were doubtful of the legal soundness of the variants. | The Commission's Office were certain of the legal soundness. |
Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older. | Simply a part of growing older are some personal values. | People tend to have the same exact goals throughout their life |
"Croaker, also." Drew stopped by the mule, patted the long nose, gave a flip to the limp ear. | Standing next to the mule, he patted it lovingly and said "Croaker, also". | Drew kicked the horse and spit on its ear. |
European Tour, takes place at Santo da Serra Golf Club. | The Santo da Serra Golf Club hosts the European tour. | The Santo da Serra Golf Club does not host any tours. |
Fragrant hydrangeas line walking paths skirting the edges of mountain terraces. | The walking paths along the edge of the mountains are surrounded by flowers. | Flowers are unable to grow along the paths. |
oh okay yeah i just found out i'm going to Denver Sunday night again | I will be traveling to Denver this weekend. | I am going to Denver for the first time this weekend. |
As she stood there, with her honest face upturned to mine, I thought what a fine specimen she was of the old-fashioned servant that is so fast dying out. | She had an honest face as she stood there. | The look on her face hinted that she was dishonest. |
i think brutally i mean this guy point blank just shot him in the head i mean just uh for no reason i mean he the cop pulled him over for like a manor minor traffic thing you know and | The guy shot him point blank in the head for no reason. | The men were able to talk their way out of the situation peacefully. |
Our approach would significantly reduce the state resources needed to conduct modeling, planning and regulatory activities to attain the standards. | Our approach would reduce state resources that are needed to conduct modeling. | Our approach would increase state resources that are needed to conduct modeling. |
yeah i could see the word in my head i just couldn't pronounce it | I could imagine the word but not say it correctly. | I can pronounce everything easily without thinking. |
Is everyone watching videos instead? | Everyone may be watching videos instead. | No one is watching videos instead. |
Jon had taken Vrenna's amazing diversion to reload his pistols. | Jon reloaded his guns. | Jon was asleep while Vrenna distracted the men. |
Who's going? demanded Tuppence sharply. | Tuppence wanted to know who was going. | Tuppence wasn't interested in knowing who was going. |
On the basis of engineering estimates, the estimated cost of deferred maintenance ranges from $ 75 to $ 100 million in 199Z. | Deferred maintenance can be estimated by engineering calculations. | Deferred maintenance costs are projected based on historical maintenance costs. |
Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, 3.3 m (11 ft) high, with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms (extravagantly known as a thousand arms ) wielding bells, wheels, and lotus flowers. | The Kannon Bodhisattva has 40 arms and 11 faces. | The centerpiece is a standing image of the Kannon Bodhisattva. |
There's no scientific or psychological basis for believing that children are affected in their sexual development or eventual sexual orientation by exposure to homosexuality--on television or in real life. | There's no scientific evidence for a link between a child's exposure to homosexuality and their later sexual orientation. | If a child is exposed to homosexuality on television, they will definitely become homosexual as an adult. |
LSC will seek additional funds to increase the presence of LSC staff in the field. | They want more money to increase staff. | They had to cut staff due to decreased funding. |
With the exception of the lowest volume post (Poste Italiane) the model's predicted percentages are close to the actual percentages for delivery. | The model predicts percentages that are quite accurate. | The model's predictions were vastly overstated. |
Unresolved questions about the nature and format of the intervention that could use input from research are enumerated below. | Unanswered questions about nature and format of the intervention could use more info. | Every question was answered. |
The universe seemed to cry out. | The universe seemed to cry. | The universe remained quiet. |
and uh he was showing it to me and we're looking under the hood and everything's nice and clean and you know you can see the three spark plugs there in the front And i said well where are the other three | We were looking under the hood and could see the three spark plugs towards the front. | We peered under the car and saw four spark plugs. |
Sir James again felt Mrs. Vandemeyer's pulse. | Sir James took Mrs. Vandemeyer's pulse again. | Sir James refused to touch Mrs. Vandemeyer and told someone else to take her pulse. |
It's your own foolishness in trying to take something without permission that gave you away. | You were given away because you tried to steal. | Nothing gave you away. |
You get us a working Franklin in two weeks, and we'll pretend everything is happening exactly as it should. | There was a deadline imposed to get Franklin working in two weeks, otherwise there would be an issue. | I only had a week left to get a working Franklin. |
She seems to enjoy it, and I may yet be in the mood to read a movie parody called Star Drech. | It appears that she enjoys when it happens. | The only time she is unhappy is when it happens. |
I darted past as quickly as possible, keeping my head firmly down. | My head was down as I darted past fast. | I looked to the sky while I ran slowly. |
yeah she'll she'll dip her food or her paw down into the food and scoop up some and eat it from her paw | She'll dip her paw down into the food to scoop it up, then eat it. | She'll eat her food directly from the source without using her paw. |
that's interesting i hadn't i hadn't run into anything quite that long or fortunately there | I've not faced anything quite that severe. | I've faced much worse. |
The second thing I learned is the importance of collaboration among judges, bar associations, private attorneys and civil legal service providers. | Everyone who works in law must work together. | Those who work in law must retain a largely antagonistic relationship with others who work in law. |
The United States falls somewhere between these extremes. | The United States is at neither extreme end of the spectrum. | The United States conforms to only one of these extremes. |
The act requires the Department of the Treasury to produce a consolidated financial statement for the federal government, which GAO is to audit annually. | A consolidated financial statement must be provided. | The act does not require anything of relevance. |
One of the finest private collections in Europe (since bequeathed to Portugal), it was created as an exhibiton space for the thousands of works of art acquired by the renowned Armenian billionaire Calouste Gulbenkian. | Gulbenkian got one of the greatest collections in all of Europe. | Gulbenkian got one of the greatest collections in all of Asia. |
you and your dog huh hey that sounds great well we don't we don't camp quite as much as we used to but uh i still think it's a great way to spend a time with your family and | I think camping is a great way to spend time with family, even though we don't do it as much as we used to. | I've never been camping, I think it's a bad way to spend time with your family. |
Subia was nominated by President Bush to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corp. -- a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing legal services to low-income people. | Subia was nominated for the board of directors of Legal Services Corp. | Subia was nominated by Clinton. |
To assist federal managers, the Committee published guiding principles and key issues for implementing GPRA. | The Committee published guiding principles and key issues to assist federal managers. | The Committee sabotaged the federal managers by publishing guiding principles for implementing GPRA. |
You're too weak to control the salamander, but this was done well in the emergency. | You don't have the strength to tell the salamander what to do, but you reacted well in the crisis. | You should have been able to control the salamander, and you handled the situation poorly. |
His knees were bent. | He bent his legs. | He kept his legs totally straight. |
Their cumulative and longer term effects, however, some of which may be largely unknown at this time, may be substantial. | While we don't know what the longer term effects may be, they're likely to be substantial. | Their cumulative and long term effects are predictable and likely insubstantial. |
And if things go well, you were behind the commander in chief all the way. | If things go well, you support the President. | If things are going poorly. you say the President is to blame. |
Vrenna continued her dance, kicking one man in the chest and cleaving into the flank of another. | One of Vrenna's dance moves was kicking a male in the chest area. | Vrenna kicked a small child in the chest as she danced. |
Ever since we gave up posture for fitness, big square shoulders with a tendency to hunch are no longer a disgrace but the appropriate sign of strength, especially if worn with strong biceps. | We gave up posture for fitness. | we did not give up posture for fitness. |
what branch were you in what branch were you in i was too | What branch were you in? | Were you in a branch? |
T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system. | There is a music entity called the South Indian system, which uses holes to represent musical scales. | In the South Indian system, holes are unrelated to scales. |
right right it's just it's just uh like a necessary evil i mean when we when our children were younger when they were like four years old three years old five years old we we just had Sesame Street and that was about it you know | Sesame Street was all we had to watch when our kids were younger. | Sesame Street was just one of many programs to watch when our kids were younger. |
This growing number of titles leaves publishing houses with less time and attention to edit and market books. | Publishing houses can give less attention to editing books. | The amount of titles is decreasing. |
four people with with luggage and uh course this grant it that's you know it's been four years ago but it's remarkable that the that the bigger vans uh they're uh my boss just bought a a pick up truck and uh he only gets seventeen miles a gallon | My boss's truck gets 17mpg. | My boss drives a car that gets 30mpg. |
The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly. | A lot of people think that Americans smoke. | The commentariat requests for a smoking table. |
Retention IRS developed a performance standard relating to the fair and equitable treatment of taxpayers that senior executives must meet. | The IRS has a standard relating to how taxpayers are treated. | The IRS has a standard relating to how lawmakers are treated. |
Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people. | Barry McCaffrey thinks these two laws need to be changed. | Barry McCaffrey wants to legalize drugs. |
The lovely 200-year old house and garden are flush with orchids. | There are many orchids in the garden of the house. | The garden of the house is filled with nothing but roses. |
Only members of the imperial family and high-ranking priests are allowed past the second of the four fences. | There are four fences, and you can only go past the second one if you are a member of the imperial family, or a high-ranking priest. | There are six fences, and you can only pass the last one if you are a monk. |
"Why?" Bork asked. | Bork questioned, "Why?" | Bork remained silent as ever. |
In general, clearer guidance was provided to programs on reviewing their own reporting procedures and practices, ensuring they conformed to the Handbook and ensuring all branch offices were aware of and were following these procedures. | Improved guidance made it so that programs could better follow the Handbook. | It was decided that guidance needed to be scrapped so that branch offices can create their own set of procedures. |
It was thin and sharp with a wire-wrapped hilt and a weighted spike on the tip of the hilt. | It was a weapon. | It was made of glass, and a useless weapon. |
The British Labour Party supported the return of domestic policy-making power to Scotland. | Scotland was starting to gain its power to make policies for their own country back | The British people rejected the fact that the Scottish people were starting to gain power back. |
multiethnic, democratic societies. | Democratic societies with more than one ethnicity. | Democratic societies with only white people. |
After a band of guerrillas captured ex-Cambodian dictator Pol Pot one month ago, many Cambodians began demanding that he be tried for the murder of the millions killed by his regime. | Pol Pot was a Cambondian dictator. | Pol Pot was released because he was so well loved. |
Did they say anything about the meat? | Did they make any remark on the meat? | Did they cook the meat well? |
anyway maybe you know maybe it'll it'll help in some way but i don't know there there there definitely even with the few disadvantages like that are far better than the alternative | Maybe it will help in some way but I don't know. | I probably will not help in any way at all. |
Already recognized as a federal nonprofit, the agency is awaiting state status that would allow it to survive on charitable donations. | The organization wants to be able to accept donations. | They would not be able to make it on donations alone. |
That boy needs an editor. | That boy needs his work to be edited. | That boy's work is perfect. |
He was naked, old, and small. | He was a small, naked, old man. | He was a fat, young man wearing leather clothes. |
They also saw a wave of Greek immigrants from the Turkish mainland during and after the proclamation of the Turkish state in 1923. | Immigrants came from Turkish mainland when the Turkish state proclamation happened during the 1920s. | They saw a wave of Russian immigrants from the Korean mainland. |
In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision. | She said she played no role in this decision. | Sawyer never gave a statement. |
spelled out when i was looking at her materials when she first started you know she had her benefits package and all that kind of stuff and it told about the dress code and it said | She was informed of the dress code when she initially began. | She doesn't have a dress code she has to adhere to. |
For example, I could appoint a deputy with the approval of at least three members of a panel consisting of the Chairmen and Ranking Minority Members of our oversight committees. | I could hire a deputy with the approval of at least three panel members. | I need the approval of four panel members to hire a deputy. |
One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam. | There is a week in which you are the only person he can turn to when the government is shut down. | You are one of many he can turn to when the government gets shut down. |
BLM also included a performance element in the senior executives' plans to Improve Human Resources Management and Quality of Work Life. | Senior executives of BLM formulated a plan to improve Human Resources Management and Quality of Work Life. | BLM is not concerned with the performance of their Human Resources Management. |
i had i had an eighty eight that i really liked then it got wrecked and so i bought a ninety um because i i really liked my eighty eight and i've had a lot of problems with this one so | I bought a ninety because I really liked the eighty-eight that I had. | I did not like the eighty-eight that I had. |
Hiking, or trekking, as it is most often called here, is a marvellous way of getting away from the often madding crowd in India, and you will find it is well organized in the old hill-stations. | You can go trekking to see hill stations. | There is no way to go in the Indian mountains. |
some places do some don't right just depends you know how long how long it takes them to figure it out if they can just tell right away | It depends on the amount of time it takes to know. | It takes all of them days to figure it out. |
Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau. | Martha is the CEO of a company named Omnimedia. | Martha has nothing to do with the company called Omnimedia. |
They had to be willing to work with business managers to enable rather than to control business operations. | They had to correspond with managers of businesses to enable, instead of controlling the business operations. | They had to be eager to work together with business managers to control business operations instead of enabling them. |
The ossified state of European telecom monopolies would stun American Webheads. | American Webheads would be stunned by European telecom monopolies. | European Webheads would be stunned by American telecom monopolies. |
In fact, the sole purpose of his piece was to continue the media assault on Tripp as some kind of back-stabbing dragon lady whom we should all view with disgust and loathing. | Tripp was considered by some to be treacherous and beneath contempt. | Tripp actually rode a dragon but the media ignored that and focused on her testimony in court instead. |
However, he did tend to drink a bit too much.' | He drank a bit too much sometimes. | He never drank a lot. |
Britain's political and economic connections to Madeira can be traced to the 17th century. | Britain has political and economic connections to Madeira. | Britain has no political and economic connections to Madeira. |
Bush plays up his born-again faith to the religious right. | Bush caters to the religious right with his faith. | Bush does not cater to the religious right. |
There are flea markets and weekly markets in many small towns (see box, page 77). | There are markets in the small towns. | The small towns have no markets. |
Finally, he poured a few drops of the coco into a test tube, sealing it up carefully. | He put drops in a test tube and sealed it. | He put drops in a cup. |
No one will do you any harm. | You will not be harmed. | They will definitely harm you. |
It wasn't complete plug and pray. | It was a partial plug and pray. | It was a complete plug and pray. |
Much that was said about Japanese management style in the 1980s--with its supposed Zen focus and greater sense of process than outcome--was pure buncombe. | Much of the information about Japanese management was inaccurate. | The information presented on Japanese management has always been correct. |
He likens the revered editor to the character Prince Myshkin in The Idiot : innocent and vulnerable, someone who must be protected. | The Idiot includes a character called Prince Myshkin. | The editor, who has been likened to Prince Myshkin in The Idiot, is not at all revered. |
With its numerous buildings set within extensive grounds, Kiyomizu's main attraction is the hondo (main hall). | The hondo is the most popular attraction for visitors to Kiyomizu. | Most visitors to Kiyomizu ignore the main hall. |
They enjoyed a privileged position during the time of the British Raj. | They were of a higher up position during British Raj. | During British Raj they are typically under-privileged. |
The attorneys who take on These cases often do so on extremely short notice. | Usually the attorneys get to work on these cases without delay. | These cases can sit for years before an attorney works on them. |
uh and i i think that's probably the fun of watching minor league baseball and the other thing is watching guys on the other end uh guys that i had seen play for both the Red Sox and Pittsburgh | It's fun seeing players play for opposite teams. | Minor league baseball never trades players. |
Canseco's making five million a year | Canseco is earning an annual sum of five million | Canseco has never made five million per year |
they will already have in fact i have one myself i'm reluctant to admit | It's not easy for me to admit that I have one myself. | I'm not ashamed to admit that I do not have one myself. |
and uh and i'm i'm i'm especially sorry for the people that are you know have spent all these years trying to deal with it emotionally because you know until the last past four or five years nobody ever really worried about that for them | Nobody worried about them until recently. | I'm not sorry for these people. |
While Americans returning home must pay 10% duty on everything above $600 worth of purchases made abroad, the US customs levy added to the price of an item may still come to less than what the purchases would cost in Boston or Chicago. | US customs charges a fee based on purchases made. | Customs fees are not charged below $1000 in purchases. |
Try to do your open air sightseeing in the morning and late afternoon. | Open air sightseeing isn't recommended around lunch time. | The best time for open air sightseeing is during mid day. |
it's best to take your lessons right at the beginning before you learn the bad habits i guess | You should take lessons from the start. | You should learn on your own before taking lessons. |
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