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literal | dragged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 . β |
metaphorical | includes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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. 186β911). | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10653 | Difficult to know. | ||
metaphorical | combined | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4649 | More problematic is the way in which such a dislocation has led to the acceptance of her β Mexicanness β 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 β. | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21885 | and we voted all these people that are here | ||
literal | sit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 β 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2696 | Because I came, I came to er Dellasel | ||
literal | greeted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | β Success is by no means guaranteed at auction, β says Graham Harrison. | |
literal | widening | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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. |
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literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17788 | Well we don't see him much now do we? | No. | |
literal | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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. |
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literal | developing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 β (RISKAT), inputs to which include data on wind direction and speed; the output of which is a map of calculated risk contours. |
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literal | located | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3019 | They were challenging the β pay now sue later β principle at Lloyd's, which says names should pay cash calls first and fight them later. | ||
literal | emulate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 . β |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7366 | My get a | ||
literal | aims | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10178 | Sorry to intrude on your on your privacy. | ||
literal | Sparks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 . β β |
metaphorical | manage | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12714 | I think we might be able to manage that. | ||
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8893 | You got a nappy on! | No, you don't! | |
metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 β. | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17922 | Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee. | He evaded Mark's eyes. |
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metaphorical | diverted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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. |
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] | 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 β 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 | [
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] | 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 β (Openshaw et al. 1989: 12). |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16679 | Could finish off the UK vehicle division, β he said forlornly, β and Don Peters, β 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9306 | I hear you've got two twentieth century | ||
literal | care | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 β¦ |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16591 | " Sometimes I wish he did, " said Frederica. | ||
metaphorical | save | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 | [
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] | 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 . β |
|
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, β Clare said. | β He automatically assumed that I was a lesbian . β |
|
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, β she had said to Penelope, β but after all there's a lot of money, quite enough for both of us . β | |
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 β. | 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 β, 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 β 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, β 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, β 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 . β | ||
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 β 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 . β |
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 . β | |
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 |
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