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metaphorical
made
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 17, 21 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12341
Donations can be made to the Dolphin Research Project c/o Windsor Safari Park, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 4AY.
literal
Thank
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 5 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.549
Thank you.
Right okay.
literal
refused
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 174, 181 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15772
The party officers and Whips were solidly behind Chamberlain, but Law drew off some of his support among tariff reformers and, urged on by Edward Goulding and Max Aitken, he refused to withdraw unless his continued candidature would allow Long to win.
Carson thereupon fell out of the contest β€” or rather announced that he was not standing, for no official nominations had been made.
Against Chamberlain it was remembered that he was a Liberal Unionist (as was Lansdowne, who led the Unionists in the Lords) and that he had not been entirely loyal to Balfour since the referendum pledge.
literal
watched
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 43, 50 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22468
Making sure to appear casual, he carefully watched the men in dinner jackets and the women in full-length dΓ©colletΓ© dresses move slowly over the red carpet towards the restaurant at the rear, or climb the staircase to the gaming rooms.
It was going to be a good night, in spite of the fact that it was August and a Wednesday.
literal
want
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22208
We want to bring up a nice girl, not a little pig.
It's not good manners.
Alright?
literal
subjected
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 80, 89 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19525
Shops like greengrocers and chippies, with pitiful cash takings, were routinely subjected to armed robberies with shotguns, balaclavas β€” the whole bit.
Car theft became so common that private cars virtually disappeared from the area.
When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say β€˜ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking.
literal
surveying
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 119, 128 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19795
On his previous visits to Larksoken he had seen Martyr's Cottage spread out beneath him when he and his aunt had stood surveying the headland from the small top room under the cone of the mill.
But he had never been closer to it than the road and now, driving up to it, it struck him again that the description β€˜ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate.
literal
commissioned
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 46, 58 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3666
The painting, dedicated to Hale's mother, was commissioned by a mutual friend of Kahlo and Dorothy Hale, the managing editor of Vanity Fair, Clare Boothe Luce.
Although destroyed, she has also escaped.
The painting was agreed to by Luce in part to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend.
metaphorical
followed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 207, 215 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6803
Labour hopes to transform the situation by increasing the number of A-levels to five for the brighter youngsters and providing grants for four-year training courses (two years in a Further Education college followed by two with an employer) for the rest.
These reforms will only achieve their objective if accompanied by the implementation of the 1944 Education Act provision for compulsory part- or full-time education or training up to the age of 18.
literal
used
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 96, 100 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21725
The road he was on, veering left, would lead eventually to the station but was, he knew, seldom used since normal traffic and all heavy vehicles used the new access road to the north.
To the north the broken arches and stumps of the ruined Benedictine abbey gleamed golden in the afternoon sun against the crinkled blue of the sea and, breasting a small ridge, he glimpsed for the first time the topsail of Larksoken Mill and beyond it, against the skyline, the great grey bulk of Larksoken Nuclear power Station.
The headland was empty and almost bare, the few straggling trees, distorted by the wind, struggled to keep their precarious hold in the uncompromising soil.
literal
cooped
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 161, 167 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4153
We've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I've been bitten by bugs in a hooker's bed, tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair, stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin.
β€˜ According to all the books, a secret agent's life's meant to be glamorous.
Don't take that the wrong way.
literal
stay
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 4 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19278
stay Saturday night and Sunday night and we go back on Monday
literal
vanished
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 91, 99 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21825
UNTIL six or seven years ago, outsiders associated East Anglia with fens, flatness and the vanished Edwardian nannies of Frinton.
Its old churches, green fields and long beaches were cherished by the inhabitants of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, but not yet on the tourist agenda.
metaphorical
bring
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 87, 92 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2351
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.
In 1912 ordinary subscriptions still brought in only Β£12000 a year and it proved difficult to raise them to anything like what was needed.
Steel-Maitland told Balfour that " Farquhar and I are endeavouring to raise more money.
literal
attending
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 38, 47 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1700
They all worked with some under fives attending the schools they covered.
These social workers were based in the borough's Special Services Team.
They were aware of a number of pre-school children who did not have adequate access to resources or support when parents and professionals were becoming aware of the possible extent and implications of the disability.
literal
think
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 19 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20626
Seven fifty I think.
metaphorical
growing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 18, 25 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9059
Britain, with its growing traffic problems, seems an ideal place for the onset of this revolution.
He sees them as not only strengthening small communities, but also as actually beginning to reverse the population flows from the countryside to the towns.
Despite Mr Dobbs's tireless efforts, this is another revolution which Britain is likely to be viewing from the sidelines.
literal
want
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 46, 50 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22095
His mother kept poking toys which she did not want at her.
Anne sat next to him on his mother's cretonne-covered settee and Abigail lay on a plaid rug on the floor, kicking with her legs and punching with her arms.
A passage from a novel by John O'Hara came back to Adam.
metaphorical
gave
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 194, 198 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7147
He claims that serious work on inner-city policy began in 1979: but it was, undoubtedly, the riots of 1981, coinciding with the biggest drop in employment and job vacancies since the war, which gave impetus to the new approach.
Heseltine's vision was of β€˜ partnerships which recognise that there are some things that only governments can pay for, but also that the ingenuity and flexibility of the private sector is indispensable ’ (p. 156).
Urban Development Corporations were introduced in 1981 in London Docklands and Merseyside, and the Urban Development Grant came in late the following year.
literal
think
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 2, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20579
I think you need to I think you need to really of been somewhere else before
literal
surprised
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 6, 15 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19777
I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me.
I am not a small man, nor am I a weakling, yet the thin Sweetman seemed unconcerned as I jumped down into the cockpit.
metaphorical
missed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 13, 19 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13253
The one they missed pulled out from Warsaw's East Station at 2.50am yesterday carrying 809 cheering East Germans bound for the Rhine region of West Germany.
Many of the new arrivals, who waited in the street outside the embassy, said they were convinced there would be another train for them.
literal
funded
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 141, 147 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7102
In the UK such research is widespread though there are specialist environmental epidemiology research institutes at Southampton and Cardiff (funded by the Medical Research Council), and others at the University of Surrey (Robens Institute) and at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The latter houses the Small Area Health Statistics Research Unit (SAHSRU), which has a specific remit to conduct research into morbidity and mortality at local scales (Elliot 1988).
literal
awarded
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1748
Costs were awarded to the members' agents but not to Lloyd's.
However, he suggested there was perhaps a need to look into the system more closely.
literal
Put
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 2, 5 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.399
β€˜ Put your head close so that I can whisper.
Mr Dalgliesh is going to be one of the guests.
literal
received
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 20, 28 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15564
The Gulamalis never received the agreement form, the tenants' deposit or the first month's rent.
The second time round they dealt with R. and B. Lettings in London NW10, who they instructed just to find a tenant.
β€˜ Finally, we went to the office and they gave us a cheque, which bounced . ’
literal
drew
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 53, 57 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5378
At the entrance to the laboratory complex the others drew on their own masks.
Ineffectual or not against lingering gases it seemed a wise precaution, even if it was only psychological.
metaphorical
give
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 27, 31 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7707
Well exactly, yes, she can give you a ring erm or I could give you a ring for that matter erm.
expensive business for her, phoning from Manchester,.
metaphorical
bridged
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 105, 112 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2323
And it was only the Englishman overhearing the conversation between Goodenache and Trimmler that finally bridged the gap . ’
The importance of it didn't surface until Germany was reunified.
literal
Given
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 5 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.164
Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London, when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets, but perhaps permanent homelessness, it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement: β€˜ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in.
. β€˜; β€˜ The added coverage is exactly what I wanted ’.
literal
afflicted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 104, 113 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.935
Let us hope that G1S can, in some small way, help mitigate the suffering and hardship felt by all those afflicted by the effects of hazards which, as we have learnt with bitter recent experience in the UK, can occur in an untimely fashion in the most improbable of places.
The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
literal
replied
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 48 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16100
β€˜ Maybe not, but he soon will, ’ Muldoon replied quietly.
literal
arose
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 38, 43 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1353
Much of the impetus for such research arose in the USA from observations on river basin management and the need to reduce flood damage.
Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century.
The vast majority of natural hazards studies have ignored the physical nature of the events per se and have concentrated on behavioural issues such as the perception and estimation of hazards.
literal
lined
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 82, 87 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11799
He was out of the room before she could open the box, a dark blue leather affair, lined with white velvet, against which lay a fine gold chain with a small oval locket set around the edge with seed pearls.
She gasped in amazement.
literal
stopped
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 100, 107 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19392
The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed, and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches.
He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit, and walked on, to catch her up, along the raised embankment.
He particularly liked this stretch; nothing but the odd tractor and the horses ever came down this embankment, and the birds were unworried by his presence.
literal
mean
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 2, 6 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12920
I mean, I, I couldn't believe it when they were saying that.
But a hundred young people a week!
literal
tell
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 18, 22 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20323
Probably, fucking tell by, cos there was I thought
metaphorical
set
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 111, 114 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18252
I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility, something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’
It's something I've always had an affection for.
metaphorical
quenching
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 12, 21 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15293
Wine is not quenching, but no less in demand for that.
What of this thirst that can be satisfied by an unquenching drink?
Try to quench your thirst with a light, fresh white and you will drink enough to put you on your back.
literal
see
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 44 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17688
It turns out that our animal was able to see in almost every direction β€” upwards, downwards, sideways and forwards, and even backwards, because the eyes bulged out beyond the line of the rest of the body.
So we can deduce what the field of vision of our globular-eyed trilobite was, by looking at the directions in which all the lenses face.
Most other trilobites have a predominantly lateral field of view.
literal
overlapping
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 16 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13963
Vast overlapping planes of brickwork are modelled with careful set-backs and subtle bands of detail.
But there is nothing homely about the general effect.
The result is an expression of the monumental aesthetic of the early twentieth century, with strong American overtones.
literal
described
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 16, 25 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4809
It was when she described seeing film of the results of the bombing on television, and thinking: β€˜ They think I did that! ’
Just once a couple of tears rolled down.
literal
think
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 14 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20473
But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.
β€˜ I know, Mark.
They are working on it right now.
metaphorical
dampen
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 17 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4460
That would dampen it a bit wouldn't it?
I think I'd probably put my wardrobes on his, on the stair wall.
literal
illustrates
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 91, 102 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9722
He describes the features of the four main systems that are currently in use in the UK and illustrates their application with reference to examples drawn from retail analysis and store location, market research, credit rating and target marketing.
In Chapter 12 Brown reviews the development of geodemographics from its origins in the computer-based social area analysis of US census tract data from 1950 onwards.
Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live.
metaphorical
quenching
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15291
Are they quenching?
Does any drink look more quenching than one of those Italian or French patent aperitifs, swirling in a refractive pink or russet oiliness, clothing the melting ice: a Campari, Dubonnet, Lillet or (too rare in this country) a Picon?
No, refreshing.
metaphorical
puts
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 50, 54 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15247
With that characteristically strong statement, he puts his finger on the secret of the Ahlbergs' phenomenal success with adults and children alike.
β€˜ I would say, just sit down and tell a good story, and to hell with the morality, ’ Allan Ahlberg declares.
literal
say
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 18, 21 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17317
Paul will do as I say.
β€˜ Yes, but that's only a technicality.
And I'd also like you to sign this document, Adam added, β€˜ which absolves me and STG from any further responsibility once Paul Littlejohn has been substituted . ’
literal
smiled
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 17, 23 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18766
He looked up and smiled.
literal
described
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 62, 71 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4808
It was a fair achievement in a town which an earlier observer described as β€˜ 44 hovels ’.
But Nicholas's grand design collapsed in 1918 when his Serbian son-in-law, Alexander, deposed him and incorporated Montenegro into Yugoslavia.
metaphorical
deal
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 30, 34 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4494
It's women have to go out and deal with it . ’
β€˜ The men are all useless β€” sitting indoors if there's trouble in the street.
metaphorical
got
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 31, 34 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8715
I'd of thought they would have got just as much sun and rain as everything else.
metaphorical
exchanged
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 48, 57 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5989
THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, exchanged a symbolic kiss of peace with Pope John Paul II yesterday at a mass attended by thousands in St Peter's Square, Rome.
literal
come
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 20, 24 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3375
Cos mummy only just come down for breakfast.
Ah but that wasn't on before was it?
literal
made
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 23, 27 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12448
Wavebreaker's hull was made of steel and, while such hulls are marvellously strong and safe, they are soon weakened if their steel is exposed to salt air.
β€˜ I'll give it some paint . ’
I had to paint the gashes as soon as possible so that rust would not begin to bite into Wavebreaker's long sleekness.
literal
muttered
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 49 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13414
A junior spin doctor is reported to have muttered, though admittedly out of my earshot: β€˜ We've been snubbed . ’
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.
literal
desire
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 104, 110 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4895
These are sensuous pleasures at their most enjoyable when we ritualise them, but how do we feel when we desire them?
Worst of all, there would be no aroma, taste, texture or finish.
metaphorical
keep
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 15, 19 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10393
Labour β€˜ would keep tight rein on spending ’
literal
clipped
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 119, 126 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3252
The loveliest, to my mind, is Melford Hall, whose charming, octagonal Jacobean gatehouse is reached along an avenue of clipped yew trees and, with its high windows flooding the octagon with light, is my fantasy of the ideal study.
There are several splendid houses near Long Melford that would make for a gentle afternoon's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich of a few centuries ago.
metaphorical
filled
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 28, 34 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6544
" Herod then with wrath was filled . "
" Unto us a Boy is born . "
The voices played with the slaughter of the innocents, treble and descant hunting each other, while she bowed her head, unable to sing in tune.
literal
Let's
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 2, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.286
β€˜ Let's make sure it knows where we are . ’
literal
shown
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 59, 64 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18524
In the past when we identified forms of pollution, we have shown our capacity to act effectively.
The great London smogs are now only a nightmare of the past.
metaphorical
got
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 8 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8742
It's got a garage and everything!
literal
mean
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 30, 34 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12994
We say we are thirsty when we mean that we fancy a glass of wine, a pint of beer, a gin and tonic or a shot of whisky β€” the pleasure of naming our poison β€” at the end of a busy day or tiresome week.
That is not thirst.
metaphorical
see
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 22, 25 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17654
I don't think you can see things the way I see them.
I'm fifty and have a long way to go.
literal
handling
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 68, 76 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9155
The British government carried out a review of its arrangements for handling nuclear accidents overseas following the Chernobyl accident.
The DoE, through Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP), was given the task of co-ordinating a national response plan, installing the radiation monitoring network and acting as lead government department in an emergency (HMSO 1988).
literal
sobbed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 26, 32 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18820
β€˜ We're going home, ’ she sobbed.
β€˜ I don't want to go back to Mrs Gutermann's.
metaphorical
dug
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 138, 141 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5474
Ellen ignored my advice while I, obedient to the rule that if a job needed doing then do it without delay, found a pot of white paint and dug through the locker for a clean brush.
Then, from behind me, an unfamiliar voice sounded: β€˜ Oh, ring my bells . ’
literal
cos
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 4, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4210
No, cos it's not got the aerial it would do.
It would do.
literal
grew
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 39, 43 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9029
He was raw to bad news, more raw as he grew older, which was not perhaps quite what he had expected.
Under his arm he carried a folded newspaper with that day's headline: PEACE MOTHER DIES.
He saw and did not see the paintings.
literal
mean
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 50, 54 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13043
You say they're having milk, he went, what do you mean?
why babies have a suck there.
Milk?
literal
invested
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 90, 98 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10192
Systematic collections were made from peers and from the City; by the outbreak of war the invested funds amounted to $671,000 β€” twice the sum in 1911 and worth four years " expenditure β€” and there was a special cash deposit of Β£120,000 for the coming election.
But I would b, e very glad if I might see you on your return to ask you to help me in two cases.
literal
pushed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 125, 131 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15121
So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it, and then he pushed th " trolley in, and I went in after, and the mother began her howling and shrieking, and Will said, " Well, I'll walk off and leave you to it . "
" Going about your father's business, are you? "
And I said, " Where are you going, then? "
metaphorical
attached
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 24, 32 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1658
First, the post was not attached to any specialist institution.
There was an expectation but not a contractual obligation that the postholder would work closely with the Beacon Nursery.
metaphorical
mean
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 88, 92 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12948
Is it possible that Major would rather go into opposition β€” with the dangers that would mean for his continued leadership of the Conservative party β€” than offer PR and Scottish devolution to the Liberal Democrats?
E VEN at this late hour, psephology, demographics and luck suggest that the Tories could still emerge as the biggest single party in a hung Parliament.
If so, we are dealing with a more Quixotic, romantic or principled figure than some of us used to think.
literal
modelling
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 108, 117 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13298
In addition to these data requirements, such users are also interested in developing their capabilities for modelling the changing relationships between the supply and demand for infrastructure in the context of both public and private sector decision-making.
According to Shepherd these users share a common need for up-to-date information on the amount, capacity and condition of urban land, transport networks, utilities, hospitals, schools and other major communal facilities.
literal
identify
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 8, 16 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9689
β€˜ We'll identify her, though, ’ he said, reassuringly.
The sergeant confirmed that that happened with bodies after a few days.
β€˜ Somebody will likely have reported her missing . ’
metaphorical
fixed-term
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 286, 296 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6703
The same applies to the general deterrent argument: its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all, and, if it does, whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long, fixed-term sentence.
Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public's perception of what life imprisonment means: if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years' imprisonment, the effect will be somewhat blunted.
As for public protection, this depends on executive decisions with regard to release; it fails to take into account whether it is necessary for public protection to keep β€˜ lifers ’ in for so long.
literal
said
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 93, 97 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16613
And I went down, I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to, I said to Robert now you know those shirts, that shirt I bought you for Christmas?
And he said yeah I said I could've got two for the price of one.
literal
provide
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 18, 25 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14958
In particular, to provide technical, scientific and economic information requested by the Commission in its tasks of identification, preparation and assessment of the implementation and results of environmental action and legislation;
literal
compared
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 105, 113 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3708
This is the so-called Chinese postman problem, which provides a Hamiltonian circuit through the arcs (as compared with the travelling salesman problem which is a minimum route through the network nodes).
Here, then, is a familiar operations research network problem: all roads have to be traversed such that the journey length/time is a minimum.
metaphorical
handle
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 140, 146 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9130
First, it would bring Britain into line with the best European practice, notably in Germany where local, regional and federal labour courts handle problems in a fair, dispassionate way based on law, precedent and judicial expertise in the labour field.
For three reasons such a move should be welcomed.
literal
remind
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 127, 133 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16010
Although predating the RRL initiative by several years β€” and, indeed the emergence of GIS as a major research area β€” we should remind ourselves of Openshaw's work on appraising nuclear reactor sites.
Using what would now be called GIS skills, Openshaw (1980) examined over 13 000 1 km grid squares in the UK which intersect the coastline and related these to data from the 1971 Census (which were made available for such grid squares).
literal
thought
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 42, 49 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20742
Andrew's coming home for the weekend so I thought it would be nice to have a drinks party.
Ah, yes …
I've invited the Bunkers, if that's all right.
literal
put
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 6 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15162
He put a pile of papers on a side table.
I'll check on Clare when I get back to London . ’
β€˜ There's rather a lot of paperwork here, things that you should be aware of . ’
literal
went
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 4 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22657
went and got the lemonade so I was tipping it in, so Terry goes, he goes I'll have it all!
literal
shouted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 149, 156 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18445
Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid, and brought up gasping for breath: β€˜ Make him sing God Save the Queen! ’ they shouted.
literal
thought
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20808
Oh dear, I thought you were a, there, oh there.
Where'd you come from?
baby speaking What's like?
literal
stopped
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 62, 69 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19388
Remember that incident when the Sultan's sister had her Rolls stopped, at two in the morning on the Grande Corniche, after leaving the casino?
β€˜ I'm not exaggerating.
They blew away the chauffeur's head with a machine gun.
literal
think
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 49, 54 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20649
Well since someone else switched it off I should think.
literal
hesitated
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 63, 72 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9506
β€˜ Quite a smooth landing, ’ the instructor said approvingly He hesitated, then warned, β€˜ Next time be careful not to land too fast or you'll run out of runway . ’
This woman was adventurous and ambitious: such pilots did not live long.
literal
frightened
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 75, 85 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7059
She had been on his mind since the morning he had seen her from his horse; frightened yet defiant, sparking with anger.
He would not tell her, this funny bewitching little English girl, that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her.
Almost, but not quite, she had come between him and the work he had had to do in New York City.
literal
waited
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 53, 59 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21910
Thousands of Montenegrins, many in national costume, waited at the quayside in Bar for the Italian warship that would bring him home.
Then they formed a slow procession behind the coffin into the mountains to the old royal capital of Cetinje for his reburial in the monastery there.
literal
accompanying
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 17, 29 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.673
When it did not, accompanying their princes in a joint crusading venture, as the lord of Amboise accompanied Fulk V or Hugh VI de Lusignan William IX, created new personal links.
On occasion, their determination to sacrifice for Christ played directly into their overlord's hands, as when the count of La Marche, who had no direct heir, sold his county to King Henry II in 1177.
The political spin-offs from crusading are therefore more difficult to calculate than at first glance they might appear.
metaphorical
take
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 98, 102 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19899
As for public protection, this depends on executive decisions with regard to release; it fails to take into account whether it is necessary for public protection to keep β€˜ lifers ’ in for so long.
The same applies to the general deterrent argument: its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all, and, if it does, whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long, fixed- term sentence.
literal
See
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 3 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.434
See you later
literal
betrayed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 17 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2087
You, you betrayed us then, you'd left hadn't you?
Yes you would.
You'd left me!
metaphorical
give
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 100, 104 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7694
The tenant is not obliged to ensure that the landlord is aware of the defects in the premises or to give the landlord an opportunity to remedy the defects before commencing legal proceedings.
IF a dwelling house is in such a state of disrepair as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance, the tenant may lay an information against his landlord alleging the existence of a statutory nuisance under the Public Health Act 1936.
Although that is the position in law, the court emphasised that as a matter of common sense a tenant should first complain to the landlord before exercising the right to prosecute.
metaphorical
captures
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 30, 38 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2799
The Dear Report on Handsworth captures this image and links it to the social condition of young blacks:
The imagery of the β€˜ black bomber, used in Handsworth was extended to the notion that there were groups of alienated and criminalized young blacks who saw the riots as a chance to engage in an β€˜ orgy of looting ’.
The majority of rioters who took part in these unhappy events were young, black and Afro-Caribbean origin . Let there be no doubt, these young criminals are not in any way representative of the vast majority of the Afro-Caribbean community whose life has contributed to the life and culture of the West Midlands over many years and whose hopes and aspirations are at one with those of every other law-abiding citizen . We share a common sorrow . It is the duty of us all to ensure that an entire cultural group is not tainted by the actions of a criminal minority . (Dear, 1985, p. 69)
literal
knew
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10553
Nell knew, and not only because she was a female of the same species.
She could see in its eyes β€” intelligence.