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literal | answer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1166 | Please be so good as to answer . β | β I asked you a question, dear heart. | |
literal | instils | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10083 | Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses. | On one level this work deals with a generalised β woman's experience β, yet the metaphorical power of Dorothy Hale's dress derives from Kahlo's use of clothing in her own self-portraits. | Hale's black velvet dress is cursed because it represents the values of the β Gringolandia β so hated by Kahlo. |
literal | read | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15455 | He treated reading as a team effort, getting them to read the Daily Mirror rather than the dull, babyish books on offer. | Every year he would have half a dozen nine- and 10-year-olds in his class who could barely read. | |
literal | captured | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2796 | But the hatred they aroused meant that they were liable to be brutally slaughtered if captured afterwards. | Their value in battle, as shields behind which the knights could shelter before they launched their charge, ensured their continued employment by those who could afford them β notably Henry II of England. | |
literal | looking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12124 | As his eyes focused he realized he was looking at a hideously swollen human body, and just then, as the light breeze shifted, he caught the stomach-turning odour of decay. | He saw a leg, uncomfortably wedged between sapling trees, swollen grotesquely, and gazed at it, stupidly, wondering if it was plastic. | He was a sensible and capable boy, an eldest child, so he moved closer, trying not to breathe, and stood steadfastly looking until he was confident of what he had seen: a body, must be a girl because it was wearing a skirt, lying face down, head towards the bottom of the embankment as if she had dived off the top. |
literal | developed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5002 | Unfortunately you cannot reach this stage until you have developed a prototype system. | And you can't develop a prototype system because the users haven't got a clue what they want. |
|
literal | wonder | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22795 | I wonder who's that? | Did you? | |
literal | Surges | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.496 | The system described by Berke and Ruch (1985) is raster-based and has an interesting modelling component called SLOSH (Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes). | It has been estimated, for example, that during the mid 1970s some 50 million US citizens were subject to hurricane winds of over 160 km/h and 6 million were subject to hurricane surge (Brinkman 1975). | SLOSH is able to estimate still water surge by grid cell for various hurricane intensities, angles of approach to the shoreline, forward movement speeds and landfall locations. |
literal | write | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23011 | And even people who write about | ||
metaphorical | based | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1781 | Almost as a logical outcome of this media blitz, it emerged in the summer of 1990 that Madonna, already a devotee of Kahlo's work, was commissioning a screenplay based on Kahlo's life. | In May 1989 Elle magazine ran a 16 page feature on Frida Kahlo as the β spirit of Mexico β (Fig. 1), while in Vogue (Feb. 1990) there was a 10 page interpretation of β the romance of Frida Kahlo's Mexico β (Fig. 2). | |
metaphorical | Getting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.152 | Getting the economy right. | But I mean these are, these are major things. | Now John Smith |
literal | bringing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2373 | You were bringing scientists and others into America just as we were. | β But your hands weren't that clean. | Scientists with Nazi records, scientists with a history of brutality, war criminals . β |
metaphorical | coiled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3288 | Metaphor lay coiled in the name sunflower, which not only turned towards but resembled the sun, the source of light. | Language was against him, for a start. | |
metaphorical | strewn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19451 | 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. | 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. | By the time we had drunk our third bottle of wine Ellen and I had long reached New Zealand and were already sailing north towards New Caledonia. |
literal | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20145 | The Cheviot housing association is slowly taking over property in South Meadowell. | A new police station is to be built. |
|
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22644 | We went to Floyds I think we went | ||
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22569 | But in the twelfth century, the house of Alsace could afford the high costs of their expeditions β Thierry went to Jerusalem four times, Philip twice β and the counts' repeated absences in fact promoted administrative reform; the baillis and the Grote Bref were as much the products of crusading as the English and Norman judicial system and exchequers were the product of the king-duke's divided attentions. | In the end, it was not in Outremer but in the newly conquered Byzantine empire that the Flemish crusading achievement was crowned with the elevation of Count Baldwin IX to the imperial throne in 1204. | |
literal | showed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18490 | After they reached two thousand feet, the instructor showed her how to fly level; he then encouraged her to experiment with the stick, manoeuvring the plane m every direction. | Miranda felt that the aircraft was an extension of her arms and her fingertips, outspread in flight. |
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literal | twiddling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21464 | Forster was sorely tempted to nip out and confirm that the noise was coming from George by twiddling the volume and tuner, but fought down the urge. | A fly landed on the empty, staring vizor, and crawled across it. | |
literal | needs | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13561 | For this purpose, the designer is too familiar with the product and he rarely takes the trouble to find out what the user really needs to know. | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons. | Often the manual has to be provided hurriedly at the end of a project when the budget is running out, and it is regarded as a tiresome chore still required after the essential design work has been completed. |
literal | written | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23058 | I've written it all down. | Anyway, you'll know what it means when you see it. | Oh and yes β¦ a chap from Conservative Central Office rang up to say they'd like to know if you would be prepared to stand for the European Parliament. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10786 | I know. | ||
literal | based | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1787 | It originates from an Italian request to the Council of Ministers in 1973 to identify environmentally β balanced β and β unbalanced β areas in the Community; the first attempts to do this were unsuccessful and, though by 1981 it was clear that a new approach based on an environmental information system was the most promising one, funding for this was not secured until 1985. | The CORINE programme represents the product of much activity by the European Commission's Directorate-General (XI) for the Environment. | 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. |
metaphorical | fooled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6841 | At least, Mrs Huntley thought hopefully, she had stopped wondering, unbecomingly and stridently, how her uncle could have been fooled by Angela Morgan. | Penelope, however, it had to be acknowledged, had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle's will. | 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. |
metaphorical | deriving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4785 | For the moment let us use the above expression for deriving Biot-Savart's law. | We shall go through a number of examples later. | |
metaphorical | recognise | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15600 | The β impossibility β stemmed from the failure of such followers to recognise the symbolic importance of Kahlo's choice of clothing, a failure also intrinsic to her recent magazine appearances. | There is, however, an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image, a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933: β β¦ some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress β a la Mexicana β, but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' | The particularities of post-revolutionary Mexico are frequently subsumed by the decorativeness of the ethnic, by the generalised attractiveness of the radical avant-garde. |
literal | checking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3110 | These include the highly specialized nature of much of the technical analysis, the limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many of the findings of this kind of research and the consequent need for the development of knowledge-based inference machines for extracting useful information from secondary and often proxy data. | The chapter as a whole draws attention to a number of key methodological issues that are involved in environmental monitoring and prediction. | |
metaphorical | add | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.812 | add six | ||
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11610 | The sergeant's eyes widened, and he slid out of the Land Rover and stood back to let Jamie out. | ||
literal | carried | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2836 | The armed robber might say that he had no intention of using the firearm, that he carried it with him simply to frighten the victim, and that it went off accidentally: if the jury believes that, should he be convicted of murder? | Some of the people thus covered would be armed robbers, others would be terrorists. | |
literal | cry | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4401 | Penelope choked on her pudding and started to cry, angry, uncontrollable tears. | You are letting this disappointment β and that's all it is, you're still a very well-off young woman β get in the way of everything . β | Grizel Huntley reached out to comfort her but she forced back her chair and fled, clutching her handbag and napkin, leaving her mother with the ruins of lunch. |
literal | yeah | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23097 | Yeah, I done, yeah I done | ||
literal | afford | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.950 | β You'd think someone rich enough to own a rig like this could afford a pair of fenders . β | Ellen looked around the oddly painted powerboat. | |
literal | keeping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10421 | All these transactions were secret, for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party. | One such scheme involved the purchase of the Daily Express by Max Aitken with party funds, but the party was also propping up the Globe, the Standard, and a wide range of provincial dailies. | The papers were therefore bought through nominees or bank loans backed with party capital. |
literal | sold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18841 | You know it's goping to be sold this flat. | No captain she has her six months leave. | |
metaphorical | jerked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10317 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years, suppressed them and jerked violently away from them, but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events. | Was his whole life affected by what had happened at Ecalpemos? | Sometimes he felt that he was the person he was because of them and acted the way he did because of their effects. |
literal | eat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5550 | You don't want anything to eat? | No? | |
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9443 | 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 | drop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5439 | I drop it | ||
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7447 | Well, leave it up to me, I'll see what I can get I'll get for the party. | ||
literal | wan | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22030 | I wanna get him another towelling dressing gown because the blue one he had on the caravan he brought home for the winter bring them home and wash them. | But he would he said don't wash it I wanna wear it. |
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literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17007 | β I expect you mean will O'Farrell be back, β Mrs Carson said. | ||
literal | embody | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5590 | For Kahlo, however, choosing to don the costume of the Tehuana, as for example in Tree of Hope (1946) (Fig. 8), was to embody a powerful icon of cultural identity. | The particularities of post-revolutionary Mexico are frequently subsumed by the decorativeness of the ethnic, by the generalised attractiveness of the radical avant-garde. | Mexican Indian dress is extraordinarily diverse and by and large geographically specific, varying from region to region. |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8401 | What is it tomorrow morning and evening, and what are we going to do in the afternoon without? | ||
literal | waiting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21921 | IN THE small Devon town of South Molton, Julie Widlake is waiting with anticipation for Friday 20 October. | She and her boyfriend have had their future planned for some time: they want to start farming in a nearby village, where they also intend to build a bungalow. |
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metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3438 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source. | Having lent Hale money to pay her rent she had been angered to discover her spending enormous sums on an haute-couture dress, and refused to turn up to not PRP but AVP + PRP; phrasal=[turn up] what, in retrospect, became Hale's farewell party. | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy β the most beautiful dress in New York β, telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband. |
literal | constructed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3998 | If these are digitized and buffer zones constructed around them (Fig. 10.3) we can quite easily test hypotheses about prevalence in such buffer zones as compared with prevalence outside. | For instance, one hypothesis concerns the role of electromagnetic radiation, a source of which is overhead high-voltage transmission lines as noted earlier. | However, we should bear in mind the earlier point about the resolution of the data, since such electromagnetic effects have a very weak effect beyond perhaps 50 m (Wertheimer and Leeper 1982). |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17680 | In terms of principle, the rule requires justification because it departs from the principle of correspondence (see Chapter 5.2(a)), namely that the fault element in a crime should relate to the consequences prohibited by that crime. | If the point of distinguishing murder from manslaughter is to mark out the most heinous group of killings for the extra stigma of a murder conviction, it can be argued that the β grievous bodily harm β rule draws the line too low. | By allowing an intent to cause grievous bodily harm to suffice for a murder conviction, the law is violating a general principle, turning the most serious of its offences into a constructive crime. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17712 | OPCS, of course, is a major data repository for medical statistics and their various Monitor Series are of use, though only at the scale of district health authority and above (see Gatrell and Lovett 1988 for an example). | There are numerous potentially usable databases for environmental epidemiological work. | Regional health authorities will from time to time produce mortality data at ward level. |
literal | prolonged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14838 | Nowadays the problem is quite the reverse: medical science is generally able to determine whether D's conduct caused the death, and innovations such as life-support machines mean that life can be prolonged for months and years in some instances. | The β year and a day β rule is a legacy of times when medical science was so rudimentary that, if there was a substantial lapse of time between injury and death, it was unsafe to pronounce on whether the defendant's conduct or some other event caused the death. | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident, having been kept on a life- support machine for almost the entire time. |
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22204 | We don't want you on tape. | ||
metaphorical | stand | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19097 | How, they argue, would Alice, or The Wind in the Willows, stand up against such scrutiny? | But the Ahlbergs have no time for literal interpretations of their work. | The way to look at Bye Bye Baby, they insist, is as a β light, surreal comedy β. |
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3479 | Sophie was supposed to be doing the chorus so I grabbed Mary, and said come with me on the half way through, called Sophie why are you doing all the talking Dot and not Mary! | ||
literal | discuss | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5135 | We shall discuss the rest first (Sections 3.2β3.5), and that will give us some idea of the relative significance of electric and magnetic fields. | It may be roughly divided into two parts: magnetostatics and the rest. | Sections 3.6β3.16 are concerned with magnetostatics, where electric fields are assumed to be zero and the interrelationship of J, H, and B are studied. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20615 | Oh I think I've got one. | ||
literal | glazing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7860 | Double glazing!! | A man tried to. | And it's on the, on the Station Road. |
literal | thinking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20675 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window, but it is a vital part of the gardening process. | Before you can make, you have to know what it is you are making. |
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metaphorical | driven | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5415 | A great many crocodile tears were shed, for, since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership, they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office. | Nor was it clear that Balfour's departure was universally desired: at the National Union Conference a few days later, Leo Maxse was booed off the platform, and constituency parties everywhere passed resolutions regretting Balfour's decision. | The shock caused by Balfour's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late. |
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11742 | Vaison doesn't like sultana. | Do you know that? |
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literal | recognised | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15605 | For children's needs to be considered with parents and their wishes acknowledged and recognised. | ||
literal | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7725 | All the other equations are all right but will not necessarily provide the simplest starting point for solving a given problem. | It is correct for most of the chapter with [formula] taken as a constant but breaks down for ferromagnetic materials, which will be discussed in Section 3.11. | We shall, therefore, introduce a number of alternative formulations. |
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20278 | But you tell me how just how is he going to do it? | Of course he is. | I mean, ee, they don't explain to you how they're going to do it do they? |
literal | resembling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16224 | The sauropods have relatively long, pillar-like legs, resembling those of the elephant, the largest living land animal, and may have been well adapted for supporting the huge bulk of the animal. | Consider the structure of their legs. | The feet of the sauropod are small (relatively speaking!), with short, stubby toes, yet animals that walk on soft mud tend to have spreading feet to distribute their weight more evenly. |
literal | paint | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14033 | " To paint, " she remembered from Proust's description of fictive Elstir, " that one does not see what one sees . " | A whirl of blue and rose, for in less formed plungings of water and wind. | To paint light and air between ourselves and objects. |
metaphorical | become | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1885 | He wandered restlessly about, and decided that the lie might as well become the truth. | It was, he felt, just too difficult to be at home at all, with Claudia in a permanently bitchy mood and both his teenage children taking their cue from her and behaving intolerably. | Without Angela Morgan, at least two major clients were in danger of not getting the assiduous service they were paying for, and it would be well worth trying to see if one of them, whom he knew to be a fellow refugee from family life at the weekends, could be found. |
metaphorical | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6989 | Indeed, while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities, the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas. | Meanwhile, there were other incentive schemes β Enterprise Zones, for example, and simplified Planning Zones, which aimed to lift tax and planning β barriers β in order to facilitate investment. | The Department of the Environment alone by 1988 was spending half a billion pounds out of an Action for Cities total, involving most Home departments, estimated at Β£3 billion. |
literal | needed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13533 | John McLeish was in his office, Saturday or no Saturday, telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork. | The phone rang and he picked it up, frowning. |
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literal | attending | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1698 | Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending. | These included parents, under- fives workers, specialist workers, children's day centre organisers and playgroups organisers. | |
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7600 | β I never see how they get the sales per square foot in these places, β Barton observed, without further greeting. | β I mean, they're not open twelve hours like my shops, and they aren't using the space . β |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3660 | Many commented on lack of information about the range of facilities on offer. | Parents wanted to be part of the decision-making and did not feel that they were. | One Afro-Caribbean woman described how she felt that she was never given a choice of provision for her son, and objected to being told he should be in a specialist nursery for his own good. |
literal | seems | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
47
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17961 | If the animal lived on the sea bottom, it seems unlikely that it would have eye lenses specialized for looking downwards, and we begin to suspect that the animal habitually dwelt above the sea floor. | Most other trilobites have a predominantly lateral field of view. | Other features of its shape are consistent with this. |
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22623 | That's a really wicked thing to say, he went, no it's not it's bad, it's not wicked. | He thinks of wicked as being good, he doesn't, cause Mandy says wicked. |
|
literal | fucked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7069 | No, no, I use it's usually fucked. | ||
literal | convinced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
65,
74
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4140 | Thus, while almost all scientists are β at the time of writing β convinced from the evidence that change in climate is under way and that regional effects may be much greater than the global average, the magnitude of the latter is now thought likely to be about half of what was predicted only 5 years ago. | In giving the 1990 Robens Coal Science Lecture at the Royal Institution, Sir John Mason (a former Director of the Meteorological Office) urged caution in interpreting the results of the massive atmospheric and oceanic modelling exercises; as the equilibrium models are refined to take account of the thermal lag in oceans, etc., lower values of predicted changes are likely. | |
literal | greet | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
46,
51
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9018 | Muldoon never emerged from behind his desk to greet colleagues. | Why the hand on the arm and the over- friendly approach? | Only visitors and VIPs got that special reception. |
literal | woven | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
85,
90
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23004 | To each side of the hearth was a high-backed wicker armchair in an intricate closely woven design fitted with patchwork cushions. | On the left-hand wall was a working fireplace, the two recesses fitted with wall-to-ceiling bookshelves. | There was an open roll-top desk facing one of the wide windows and, to its right, a stable door, the top half open, gave a view of the paved courtyard. |
literal | embody | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
43
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5591 | In both features she is also seen to embody a wider set of assumptions about Mexico itself; exotic, passionate, yet constantly struggling against pain and deceit. | The visual references in the two magazines are as much from photos of the artist as from her work. | While Elle, Vogue and subsequently The Independent (Fig. 5), stressed different facets of Kahlo's public persona, they all shared the emphasis on β her β, as an encapsulisation of stereotypical images of Mexico, rather than her work. |
metaphorical | tells | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
113,
118
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20359 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others, he thought with cold clarity, if someone tells the papers, or the police and thence the papers, that I was there during the summer of 1976, living there, it will be all up with me. | He closed his eyes. | I will lose my practice and my reputation and everything that I have and can look forward to, if not my liberty. |
literal | becoming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
133,
141
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1941 | Ulster's opposition to Home Rule long pre-dated Law's leadership and he had rarely even spoken on Irish affairs in parliament before becoming leader. | In August 1911 the diehard peers used language as violent as any that Law was to use later, and in the crucial decision on the House of Lords Law sided with the hedgers rather than the ditchers. | Before he succeeded Balfour then, Law was not associated with any of the features that were to characterize his party leadership; his contribution was to use the leadership in the service of all of these causes, to make himself the spokesman for the most spirited sections of the party. |
literal | hates | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9274 | β He really hates our guts! | β I suppose Mueller saw to that, β Mark said sarcastically. | God help the British plants under the new regime! β |
metaphorical | embark | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5583 | Naturally, to embark on such a step is not necessarily to succeed immediately in realising it. | Rather, it is a challenge. |
|
metaphorical | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
60
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6952 | Adam had insisted they stay in the room and she hadn't found a good enough reason to change his mind. | They had slept well, eaten well, slept again and eventually got bored with the passing countryside. | |
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
24,
28
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22373 | β It's not that I don't want to say anything but I just don't know what to say, β John Ryan, the Welsh coach, sighed. | His plans in ruins, he is now reduced, Micawber - like, to hoping something will turn up before his players face the All Blacks in five short weeks. |
|
literal | noticed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
56,
63
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13643 | Apart from some dark patches on the wall that he hadn't noticed before, there was nothing to see. | His intense scrutiny took in the shadowy and empty lengths of the corridor. | |
metaphorical | committing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
94,
104
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3684 | Such language focused attention on the individuals or groups who were β breaking the law β, β committing criminal acts β, and threatening the interests of the law-abiding β majority β. | He drew the conclusion from this that the riot β came like a bolt out of the blue β (Guardian, 21 November 1985). | |
literal | relating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
52,
60
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15851 | This contribution cuts across many of the questions relating to particular applications that were raised in preceding chapters and draws attention to the dangers of neglecting institutional and personal considerations in practice. | Campbell presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of the organizational issues involved in the development and implementation of GIS. | All too often, as the experience of many mature applications indicates, technical and data-related matters dominate the system development phase and technically elegant solutions are devised which fail to take enough account of user needs and capabilities. |
metaphorical | manage | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12712 | I did manage to sort out the food for tomorrow and | Yes please cup of tea are making it then? good! | |
literal | subdivided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
39
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19520 | Each of these may be further subdivided and the typology shown in Fig. 10.1 draws upon the classic work of Burton and Kates (1964) in separating geophysical from biological hazards and Zeigler et al. (1983) in distinguishing public (or what we might call societal) hazards from private (individual) ones. | As noted above, the simple division of hazards is between those which are natural and those which are technological or human-induced. | The further subdivision of natural hazards is self-explanatory as is that of individual technological hazards. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16841 | She said oh! | So I said, twentieth of March. | Tt. |
metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
57
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12512 | For the most part this is a reasonable assumption to make. | This assumes that nature only manufactures efficient designs. | Most animals today do seem to have bodies that accord well with the functions they have to carry out to survive: flyers are aerodynamically efficient, active swimmers have suitable streamlining, herbivorous mammals have teeth appropriate for grinding plant food, and so on. |
literal | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18055 | Never seen you in me life . β | β You all know me, β says Paddy, and a fat lady with good timing says, β I don't know you. | |
literal | took | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21067 | She took off the voluminous apron Cook had lent her and went in search of her charge. | And now it approached. | |
literal | miss | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13247 | Oh a big miss of that gear though in n it? | ||
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
39,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8650 | Er we saw her one day she said oh I've got the keys by the way. | I didn't know about it, I didn't even know she was looking for one then. | I said oh, keys for where? |
metaphorical | play | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
150,
154
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14372 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard. | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed, but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion, a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end. | In private conversation he told Asquith " I am afraid that I shall have to show myself very vicious Mr Asquith this session. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7973 | I loved to go back | I really liked it. | |
metaphorical | turn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21376 | Labour sought to turn the general election into a referendum on the NHS, asking voters for a mandate to reverse the changes. | Mrs Bottomley is convinced the Tory victory provides the opportunity to entrench the reforms β and to give doctors, nurses and managers the confidence to make them work. |
|
metaphorical | deriving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
70,
78
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4786 | We shall rather return to a very simple geometrical configuration for deriving Ohm's law. | It is not worth discussing any of these complications because one is rarely called upon to work out lines of current in a conductor. | |
literal | fainted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6309 | Clare almost fainted from surprise and anxiety, horror and shame. | Then she wept. |
|
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12916 | I mean you're you're not sort of right in the centre of town, but | That's it, yeah. |
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