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dragged
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 48 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5297
Theresa gave him a brief, pitying smile, dragged the plastic bags from beneath the seat then expertly freed her brother and settled him on her left hip while, with the other hand, she collapsed the pushchair, with a single vigorous shake.
The solid uncooperative bundle was surprisingly heavy; it was like trying to manoeuvre a firm and rather smelly poultice.
Dalgliesh took the baby from her while Theresa helped the children into the Jaguar and commanded with sudden fierceness, β€˜ Sit still . ’
metaphorical
includes
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 81, 89 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9867
By comparison, the number of deaths recorded as criminal homicide was 600, which includes all the murders and manslaughters.
For 1987 the statistics show that there were some 20,000 accidental deaths, of which some 7,000 occurred in the home, 6,000 at work, and 5,000 on the roads.
This figure is relatively small when compared with many American cities, but that is no cause for satisfaction.
literal
involved
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 38, 46 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10237
It would seem that, despite the costs involved, they should consider investing in the very detailed digital data (Pinpoint Address Code (PAC)) provided by Pinpoint Analysis Ltd.
This area of application would appear to be an obvious market for such a product.
metaphorical
directed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 100, 108 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5089
He told Frederica he preferred his androgynes to be more obscured, more veiled, more suggested, and directed her attention to " Still-Life, Fete Gloanec 1888 " in which various inanimate objects, two ripe pears, a dense bunch of flowers, swam across a bright red table-top rimmed with a black ellipse.
He was unmoved, though the colours were rich and strange.
The picture was signed " Madeleine Bernard ", and Alexander told Frederica that Gauguin had flirted seriously with that young woman, had characterised her, as was fashionable at the time, as having the desirable, unattainable androgynous perfection, complete sensuality combined with unattainable self-sufficiency.
literal
came
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 34, 38 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2756
and the rain came down and floods came up, the rain came down and the floods came up, the rain came down and the floods came up and the house on his band fell flat
literal
form
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 45 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6903
Dressing up, role playing and masquerade form the conceptual basis of Kahlo's work.
The majority of her work is self portraiture; her aesthetic concerns grew from her fascination with the falsity of appearance.
In Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1944) (Fig. 6), she paints herself wearing Rivera's suit, challenging traditional expectations of femininity and attempting to appropriate his authority (while simultaneously) threatening castration).
literal
apply
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 27, 32 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1253
No such restriction should apply to our large-eyed species; it should be found with all other different kinds of trilobite assemblages without preference.
Most bottom-dwelling trilobites preferred to live at a particular water depth, or on a particular type of sea bottom (mud, sand or lime).
This has been proved in several places: in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean, while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas, where limestones were accumulating.
metaphorical
hinged
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 110, 116 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9525
Throughout 1980 and 1981 debates about the riots in the media, in Parliament, and in various official reports hinged around the interrelationship between racial, law-and-order, and social factors.
Intermingled with the discourses about race and law and order were constant references to unemployment, particularly among the young, and various forms of social disadvantage and poverty (Solomos, 1988, pp. 186–911).
The importance of this debate can be explained, partly, by the political capital which the Opposition could make from linking the social and economic malaise of the country at large with violent street disturbances.
metaphorical
reach
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 39, 44 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15414
Capital spending of Β£43 million should reach a total of Β£87 million for the full year.
Almost a third of group profits are earned overseas, interest and tax charges are down on last year and gearing stands at 13 per cent.
The shares rose 10p to 170p.
literal
know
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 13, 17 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10653
Difficult to know.
metaphorical
combined
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 27, 35 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3348
Probation orders which are combined with constructive, disciplined and effective programmes of supervision are increasingly being used for offenders who stand to receive custodial sentences (1990b, p. 35).
In recent years the probation service has devoted increasing resources to supervising the more serious and persistent offenders.
metaphorical
boosts
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 148, 154 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2178
Even if lead levels in the atmosphere do not bother you, I am sure you will find the fact that unleaded petrol is 15p cheaper, and that diesel fuel boosts mpg by at least a third, most interesting.
literal
increases
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 156, 165 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9946
The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded, like mammals, and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely, then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded.
Some of the smaller, and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken, and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed, running dinosaurs.
The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts, but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs, including small and large carnivores, were warm-blooded, active animals.
literal
fill
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 4, 8 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6555
you fill it and take the money out their hand don't you?
metaphorical
defusing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 180, 188 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4649
More problematic is the way in which such a dislocation has led to the acceptance of her β€˜ Mexicanness ’ as mere decoration of the essentially feminist themes of her work, thereby defusing a substantial part of the art described by Breton as a β€˜ ribbon round a bomb ’.
Although this is not in itself to be dismissed as a tactic, it has diminished the complexity of Kahlo's achievement as a specifically Mexican painter, operating within the particularities of her historical moment.
It is the ribbon that runs through the pages of Vogue, the glossy surface of the images in direct opposition to a work such as Kahlo's The Suicide of Dorothy Hale (1939) (Fig. 9).
metaphorical
left
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 72, 76 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11520
In general the value of formal routines is precisely that the operator, left to himself, will not normally function in such a systematic sequential manner.
No great skill or intellectual effort is required, which is one way of saying that the human operator is being under-used, but the purpose of a routine is usually to avoid common human error such as omitting a step or reversing steps.
literal
voted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 7, 12 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21885
and we voted all these people that are here
literal
sit
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 231, 234 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18631
Anyway, so erm he said, but you know he was saying to them that er, it's not just at the bottom end, he said, in our village in Wales we've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these they sit in a car outside his house day and night
Blackpool's under investigation.
literal
bringing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 53, 61 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2369
The objectives of CORINE were to be achieved through bringing together existing data holdings in the member states, developing methods for holding, analysing and presenting the data, and encouraging the exchange of data.
A 4-year experimental programme to β€˜ collect, co-ordinate and ensure the consistency of information on the state of the environment and natural resources in the European Communities ’ was set up and labelled CORINE.
A number of priority areas were identified, including biotopes of importance for nature conservation, acid deposition and its effects on soils and biotopes and the protection of the environment of the Mediterranean region (Briggs and Martin 1988).
literal
pruned
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 30, 36 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15051
The rose bush was not was not pruned this year so I doubt if we're going to have many flowers.
literal
came
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 10, 14 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2696
Because I came, I came to er Dellasel
literal
greeted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 33, 40 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9021
The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive.
But seen face to face, even in the informality of her own house, the absence of a spark of sexuality and, he sensed, a deep-seated reserve, made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected, and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space.
He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers, although not jarring or unpleasant, sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch.
literal
looked
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 181, 187 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12099
She was frowning, deep lines appearing between her eyebrows, mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties, she looked faded, years older than her real age, and shrewish.
Her red suit was smart, but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin, her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten.
metaphorical
get
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 32, 35 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7603
β€˜ In a tough market you need to get the programme right, the price right and have a little bit of luck . ’
β€˜ Success is by no means guaranteed at auction, ’ says Graham Harrison.
literal
widening
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 102, 110 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22687
Delaney pulled the curtain across, covering Forster who cut a small slit in the opaque green plastic, widening it to give himself a better field of view.
literal
wanted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 17 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22295
Well we've wanted to move for twenty five years possibly.
But you know how it is, it's family ties and kids growing up and then they grow up and have families of their own, then you get tied to the ch grandchildren or what have you.
literal
see
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 17 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17788
Well we don't see him much now do we?
No.
literal
put
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 88, 91 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15222
Well I've got to know, cos sort of adult as well, I mean you included as I mean it's to put
literal
announced
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 148, 157 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1154
Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks, while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave.
Only two failed to go: a new mother and her child, who was born in a Polish hospital four days ago.
literal
developing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 85, 95 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5009
It is also relevant to point out here the work of the Health and Safety Executive in developing techniques for quantitative risk assessment (Health and Safety Executive 1989).
Such techniques include the use of a β€˜ risk assessment tool ’ (RISKAT), inputs to which include data on wind direction and speed; the output of which is a map of calculated risk contours.
literal
located
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 102, 109 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11961
For example, in 1692, the whole of southern England was affected by an earthquake whose epicentre was located in what is now Belgium; a good deal of minor structural damage was inflicted (Morse 1983).
This is perhaps best illustrated with reference to earthquakes.
Presumably the builders of the Channel Tunnel are aware of this?
metaphorical
challenging
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 10, 21 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3019
They were challenging the β€˜ pay now sue later ’ principle at Lloyd's, which says names should pay cash calls first and fight them later.
literal
emulate
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 76, 83 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5645
Why, though, could these supposed championship contenders not have tried to emulate the fine passing that had sprinkled the previous weekend's Merseyside joust?
They are so frequent these days in London, which has eight of 20 First Division clubs, that we must expect aesthetic considerations to be overridden.
literal
endeavouring
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 54, 66 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5695
Steel-Maitland told Balfour that " Farquhar and I are endeavouring to raise more money.
The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income, and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind.
I think we are likely to succeed β€” thanks in part to the very generous example set by Lord Rothschild.
literal
looked
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 180, 186 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12048
And he said I was completely confused and I couldn't, he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and, er, you know my mouth wouldn't work, he said, but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital.
I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy, he said, and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed.
And they were saying, they were saying that, you know, you associate strokes with older people, but there's a hundred young people a week have strokes!
literal
exchange
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 67, 75 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5986
Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.
Auctions certainly speed up the house-buying process.
literal
told
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 74, 78 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20921
As their coach, Alex Wyllie, remarked: β€˜ When we arrived in Wales we were told Cardiff were no damned good and look how well they played against us.
Even so, the All Blacks, who include seven capped players, will give today's opponents due respect.
Leinster are quite capable of doing the same . ’
literal
get
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 6 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7366
My get a
literal
aims
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 204, 208 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1019
The Central Electricity Generating Board (now privatized and split into two companies) is funding a large-scale, 2-year project to assess links to childhood cancer, while another recently announced study aims to look at links to sudden infant death.
A good bibliography is provided in Perry and Pearl (1988).
One obvious problem, with implications for any GIS input, is that the effects are highly localized, with little measurable field effect more than a few dozen metres away from the route centre-lines.
metaphorical
intrude
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 16 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10178
Sorry to intrude on your on your privacy.
literal
Sparks
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.475
Mr Sparks doesn't think it's going to pass.
It's due for its MOT test.
And I found we'd run out of two lexical units; [run out]=phrasal verb milk for Anthony.
literal
chewed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3123
He chewed his thumbnail as he walked, out of long experience keeping in mind the highest priorities: Ensure Body Not Moved and Ensure Next of Kin Notified before the Press got the story.
Presumably it would be the Yard who investigated this one, rather than the regional crime squad.
literal
go
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 68, 70 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8061
Pet hold mummy's hand hold mummy's hand, there's a good girl off we go.
literal
wince
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 60, 65 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22710
We used to watch the game together and I'd suddenly see him wince in pain.
If he got hurt, my guy used to suffer, too.
Just like that.
literal
curb
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 10, 14 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4407
So kindly curb your theatrical, James Bond streak.
β€˜ I merely wanted to tell you that you've scared the hell out of everyone at Saracen β€” except me.
I knew immediately what your message meant: β€˜ If you don't pay up, one slash is all it takes . ’ ’
metaphorical
manage
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 28, 34 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12714
I think we might be able to manage that.
literal
got
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 4, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8893
You got a nappy on!
No, you don't!
metaphorical
make
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 148, 152 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12494
Because the networks believe westerns appeal mainly to middle-aged men, Young Riders has a cast of five pouting young male actors, in an attempt to make a western with β€˜ good demographics ’.
It also says a lot about modern American TV.
The effect is rather like an extended advertisement for Marlboro Lights.
metaphorical
coming
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 123, 129 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3596
After that we would go to Tahiti, and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true.
Then we would sail south to Easter Island to explore the mysterious statues before going to the mutineers' refuge on Pitcairn Island.
It was an excitement that matched my own, for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny, magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe.
literal
seemed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 8, 14 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17922
Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee.
He evaded Mark's eyes.
metaphorical
diverted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 102, 110 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5241
It was Grizel Huntley's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior, and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well.
At least, Mrs Huntley thought hopefully, she had stopped wondering, unbecomingly and stridently, how her uncle could have been fooled by Angela Morgan.
Indeed, she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer's office.
literal
described
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 62, 71 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4801
An alternative non-punitive paradigm of probation practice is described.
Probation officers, it is argued, are concerned with establishing rules for probationers and not inflicting pain on them.
The paradigm is based on the joint supervisory aims of support and surveillance which are implemented through the methods of counselling, assisting, directing, and monitoring.
literal
became
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1852
He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian's usurpation; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church.
While Raymond of Toulouse remained in Outremer, Stephen and Hugh disgraced themselves in escaping from the siege of Antioch, and Robert Curthose, no matter how gallant, at least in his lifetime failed to impress, Robert II's prestige soared to the skies.
Outside Flanders, Robert's sister's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world; like Louis VI's sister's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch, it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies, ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts.
literal
preached
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 67, 75 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14583
He never now made a sermon from a metaphor, nor drew analogies: he preached examples, cases, lessons.
He knew about the light shining in darkness, and had come, for reasons completely different from Alexander's desire for exactness, specificity, to mistrust figurative language.
But he liked the black Dutch paintings: they were, so to speak, on his wavelength.
metaphorical
passed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 81, 87 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14075
He had himself been rising thirty-seven and when The Yellow Chair was put on had passed that age, was older now than Van Gogh, as he had, in the 1940s, realised that he was older than Keats.
In 1954 Alexander, a time-obsessed man, had read the centenary edition (1953) of the Letters.
He had felt, perhaps, briefly, the power of the survivor.
literal
working
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 32, 39 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22923
Jensen and Christiansen (1986), working in the south-eastern USA, use a raster approach (with a pixel resolution of 20 m²) and Boolean overlay to β€˜ weed out ’ particular sites, such as those which are poorly drained, environmentally sensitive or inaccessible (see also Stewart 1987).
GIS research into site selection for non-nuclear hazardous waste has been almost exclusively conducted in North America and has yet to be matched in the UK.
literal
examining
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 114, 123 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5979
It is these, rather than existing, licensed sites which should be a focus of research activity, particularly when examining possible links to ill health.
What is not known is information on the locations of former sites, at which quite toxic materials may have been dumped, though recent work by Egger (1989) in Austria has mapped a vast number of such sites.
We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that β€˜ people are almost certainly ill, dead, or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ (Openshaw et al. 1989: 12).
literal
said
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 47, 51 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16679
Could finish off the UK vehicle division, ’ he said forlornly, β€˜ and Don Peters, ’ he added, shaking his head.
I heard about this latest Merseyside strike in Istanbul.
Some of the stupid bastards won't be satisfied until we no longer make a single vehicle in the UK.
literal
caused
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 74, 80 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2963
None of them, of course, anticipated the scale of the problems which were caused by the slump and collapse of much of what remained of inner urban manufacturing industry in the early 1980s.
Such measures constituted the present Government's heritage, when it took office in 1979.
Neither, at first, did the incoming administration foresee the impact of rising unemployment, which was to be especially serious among the urban young.
literal
Wearing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.596
Wearing jeans and a blue shirt, she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her.
He stopped at the door and smiled at her.
She looked about sixteen and beautiful.
literal
hear
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 2, 6 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9306
I hear you've got two twentieth century
literal
care
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 30, 34 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2800
And without the rest I shan't care about my liberty.
I will lose my practice and my reputation and everything that I have and can look forward to, if not my liberty.
It would be bad enough if I were a G P or an expert in some other branch of medicine, an orthopaedic surgeon, for instance, or an ear, nose and throat man, but I am a gynaecologist, and it is the bones of a young woman and a baby that have been found there …
literal
said
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 29, 33 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16591
" Sometimes I wish he did, " said Frederica.
metaphorical
save
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 228, 232 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17179
They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams, a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith, missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty, much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final.
The simple answer is that Chelsea are in a false position and Arsenal, on this evidence, slightly jaded champions.
metaphorical
denounces
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 10, 19 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4717
The NAACP denounces The Silence of the Lambs because Hannibal the Cannibal shares his name with an African general, and the killer is Buffalo Bill (yes, that's a white man's nickname, but the buffalo, NAACP explain patiently, is associated with Native Americans).
metaphorical
reached
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 58, 65 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15420
And then, on Thursday morning, when Major's election tour reached the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, Sir David English, the paper's editor, was not there to greet him.
A junior spin doctor is reported to have muttered, though admittedly out of my earshot: β€˜ We've been snubbed . ’
metaphorical
win
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 58, 61 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22697
However, real problems may arise once Leinster attempt to win the loose ball.
Fortunately, Leinster's front five, which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald, looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks.
Leinster will be led by their third captain in as many matches, the centre Paul Clinch.
literal
know
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11049
cos I mean, I know her mum.
literal
ask
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 52, 55 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1540
β€˜ When Tony couldn't get me to climax, he wanted to ask another girl over, ’ Clare said.
β€˜ He automatically assumed that I was a lesbian . ’
literal
acknowledged
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 29, 41 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.744
So there was, Grizel Huntley acknowledged, and it would be a great deal better if Penny could manage to think a bit more positively.
β€˜ I'm sorry you're disappointed, ’ she had said to Penelope, β€˜ but after all there's a lot of money, quite enough for both of us . ’
metaphorical
underlying
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 144, 154 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21484
Too much specialisation is bad for systems development; it feeds the temptation to get engrossed in technical difficulties and forget about the underlying business needs.
But this can be counter-productive, as it cuts off communication between the systems analyst and the user.
literal
recognized
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 19, 29 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15612
He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive, boneless saunter: he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room.
His attention was also caught by a woman dressed in midnight-blue satin and diamonds; the sister of a Middle-Eastern ruler, she was known as an audacious gambler.
The club owners, the casinos, and the multinational bookmakers knew which professional gamblers successfully played games that contained an element of skill β€” such as backgammon and poker- and they preferred to have nothing to do with them; ideally, the house welcomed inexperienced, rich idiots.
metaphorical
look
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 230, 234 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11984
As a result of this work the Coordinating Committee for Under Fives (CCUF), an umbrella organisation of statutory and voluntary sector groups and individuals providing a service to under fives, decided to organise a conference to look at the issues of integration of special needs children within mainstream provision.
metaphorical
add
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 113, 116 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.797
In an old garden, there may be a fruit tree, or a good bulwark of evergreen laurel or box that, tidied up, could add a dash of venerability to the new garden that will emerge around it.
On a new estate, there may be nothing.
If you do not know what a tree or shrub is, exercise clemency and give it a year's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman.
metaphorical
weathered
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22522
They had weathered Bridgend's early fury, conceding a try before coming back with some confidence to score three of their own.
But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering β€” and at half -time, building on their win over Newbridge, it looked as if they would.
literal
argue
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 63, 68 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1294
In contrast, the advocates of chaos theory (e.g. Stewart 1989) argue that some natural systems are so sensitive to tiny stimuli that even β€˜ the faint beat of a butterfly's wing could be the ultimate trigger for a hurricane ’.
An argument by many atmospheric physicists, for example, is that shortcomings in the accuracy of weather prediction over periods of more than a few days largely results from the unsophisticated nature of existing models, the lack of suitable data and inadequate computer power (see Fig. 9.3, derived from Tyler 1989).
In essence, they argue that tiny differences in the initial conditions of many systems can lead to widely different outcomes since the systems exhibit stochastic behaviour within a deterministic framework.
metaphorical
broken
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 123, 129 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2401
The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months, then nothing for four months, and were told the computer was broken, the accounts were being moved, the cheque was in the post, and so on.
They hired the first agent, β€˜ Digs ’, of Oxford Street, to manage as well as to let their flat.
literal
decorated
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 27, 36 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4596
Many are still elaborately decorated with pargeting, an ornate, patterned plasterwork practised in this area since the early thirteenth century.
Yet you only have to read Ronald Blythe's Akenfield to realise that these picturesque, half-timbered cottages, often painted the characteristic Essex pink (pale salmon), ochre or spring-leaf green, are more prosperous now than ever in the β€˜ real ’ past.
Most of East Anglia's prosperity today is due to City commuters, the second-homes market and tourism.
literal
eat
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 17 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5544
What did they eat, for example?
There are all kinds of different questions we can ask about the life habits of these trilobites, which are not subject to the same kind of careful scrutiny.
Because we do not have the legs preserved, it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding, and neither are the stomach contents preserved.
metaphorical
snarled
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 44, 51 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18804
β€˜ I've had enough of your melodrama, ’ Adam snarled.
metaphorical
consulted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 70, 79 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4009
However, for details of disposal the individual site licences must be consulted.
These give details of present site locations and some indication of permitted wastes, though little or no information on closed and abandoned sites.
The former Hazardous Waste Inspectorate operated a large database on all sites, with details of permitted wastes, including allowable quantities.
literal
ask
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 83, 86 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1427
So they should, and when the list of necessities is securely written down, you can ask the second question: How do I want this garden to feel?
Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit.
literal
said
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 27, 31 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16992
β€˜ Don't worry, Ruth, ’ she said kindly.
β€˜ I dare say O'Farrell will be back tomorrow before we leave.
metaphorical
made
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 15, 19 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12432
The review had made no mention of children with special needs.
The specialist social worker and another under- fives worker with a personal interest in the issues undertook a supplementary review to examine resources for these children.
literal
wait
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21946
β€˜ but I shall wait until tomorrow . ’
literal
Shall
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 5 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.451
Shall I just give you out a load and
metaphorical
given
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 21, 26 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7778
The answer sometimes given is that murderers should be treated differently because they are particularly dangerous: anyone who chooses to kill once can choose to kill again.
Should those decisions not be taken by the courts, in the same way as other sentencing decisions?
But this argument will seem less persuasive when we have discussed cases of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility: where a murder is reduced to manslaughter, the judge has a wide sentencing discretion and may, according to the facts of the case, select a determinate prison sentence, a hospital order, or life imprisonment.
literal
offer
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 42, 47 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13771
While ultimately qualitative, it seems to offer a method for coping with different types of process and incorporating stochastic and truly random events.
Results of running this with different scenarios include β€˜ time slice ’ maps of possible outcomes and of the exchange of material and energy within the study area.
literal
thought
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 37, 44 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20799
In cases where life imprisonment was thought to be the appropriate sentence, the trial judge would still specify β€” in open court β€” the number of years to be spent in prison, taking the gravity of the offence into account, and release would be determined by a judicial tribunal.
In its place would be a sentencing discretion, which judges would use, in many cases, to mark the relative heinousness of the murder by a determinate prison sentence.
Such a reform would bring improvements in natural justice without loss of public protection.
metaphorical
embark
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 106, 112 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5582
If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process, the time has come to embark on another major step, that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure.
How can the process of state building be developed?
literal
grow
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 75, 79 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9052
But you know how it is, it's family ties and kids growing up and then they grow up and have families of their own, then you get tied to the grandchildren or what have you.
Well we've wanted to move for twenty five years possibly.
I've been pushing for a long time but erm down here?
literal
suffer
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 259, 265 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19578
You will realise that this combination of red-ochre, of green gloomed over by grey, the black streaks surrounding the contours, produces something of the sensation of anguish, called " noir-rouge " from which certain of my companions in misfortune frequently suffer
literal
settled
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 124, 131 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18315
Theresa gave him a brief, pitying smile, dragged the plastic bags from beneath the seat then expertly freed her brother and settled him on her left hip while, with the other hand, she collapsed the pushchair, with a single vigorous shake.
The solid uncooperative bundle was surprisingly heavy; it was like trying to manoeuvre a firm and rather smelly poultice.
Dalgliesh took the baby from her while Theresa helped the children into the Jaguar and commanded with sudden fierceness, β€˜ Sit still . ’
literal
seemed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17910
He seemed uneasy.
You'd better go to St Stephen's for tests: they're properly equipped to handle this sort of thing . ’
metaphorical
made
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 252, 256 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12362
His enormous hands dwarfed the elegant menu which he was studying in apparent disbelief, and Peter Yeo noticed again, as Barton without rising extended one massive paw, that though the fingers were an ordinary length it was the width of the palms that made the hands so large.
Andy Barton, founder and chief executive of Barton Textiles, was almost as broad as he was long, virtually neckless, with incongruously long brown hair curling over his collar.
metaphorical
ranked
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 104, 110 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15392
Paul Harrison's Inside the Inner City: Life under the Cutting Edge focused on Hackney, a London borough ranked among the worst off on any scale of urban deprivation (Harrison, 1983).
The problems, however, were not confined to violent upheavals of this kind.
Harrison describes (p. 369) the way in which the inner urban powder-keg leads to a vicious circle, with many victims, but few individual villains:
literal
see
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 74, 77 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17601
But erm but the thing is they, they the blokes don't have to behind don't see that much do they?
They got their head down, see that
literal
know
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 2, 6 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10755
I know what you mean.
literal
say
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 225, 228 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17300
It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I don't think he could get a buyer actually, it's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he's not keen on selling it at that price.
Ours is actually a new house.
And I'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself.
literal
mummy
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 16 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13404
If you ask mummy she 'll