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literal | begun | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1997 | Already the orchestra had begun to play and the elegantly dressed to appear. | Torchlights, flaring against the night sky and reflected in the water, had been set up wherever it was suitable. | |
metaphorical | misused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13273 | The female soil possessed and misused by the masculine force of the Spanish invaders. | At its most simple, La Chingada, as the mother of Mestizo culture is β the Mother forcibly opened, violated or deceived β. | The Indian Mexico raped and abused by the conquistador yet bearing his bastard child. |
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20804 | Just cos you thought you were | ||
metaphorical | rallied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15360 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north. | Anne was furious. |
|
metaphorical | foresee | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6864 | Neither, at first, did the incoming administration foresee the impact of rising unemployment, which was to be especially serious among the urban young. | 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. | True, the new Secretary of State for the Environment laid stress, from the outset, on the need for economic regeneration, and indicated his sympathy for the voluntary sector in the tackling of urban problems. |
literal | ruining | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16490 | In Strasburg, they have been known to lace beer with Picon, thereby ruining both drinks (as Queen Victoria reputedly did with claret and malt whisky), but still the result is not especially quenching. | No, refreshing. | |
literal | enjoy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5737 | Those of us who enjoy them need only a name for each condition, so that we may discuss them in expectation and in recollection. | Let puritans and pessimists damn, disapprove or dismiss these appetites; that is their loss. | |
literal | glanced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7851 | He glanced at the paint pot and brush that I was still holding. | β You're nothing but a hired hand, Breakspear, so shut the fuck up . β | β Go and paint something. |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8858 | Well well he hasn't got a father so he regards you doesn't he? | If you wanna take it that way . radio on |
|
metaphorical | straggling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19421 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist, now lay in a wilderness, amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat. | A sudden gust of rain dashed against the red bricks that were already stained in patches by water. | Dirty grey clouds tumbled across the sky above the slate roof, now the only thing that shone, glazed with rain. |
literal | played | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14379 | 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 | hurtling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9658 | From the resulting corner Rhodes made another fine save, hurtling to his right to deflect away Dixon's rising shot. | A neat step-over by Rocastle sent Thomas hurtling in on goal but Rhodes moved sharply off his line to smother the shot. | Finally, with Arsenal pressing hard, he clawed away Quinn's careful header from Thomas's drag-back. |
metaphorical | opened | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13842 | She dug into her pocket, unfolded a bit of newspaper, and read, Sportsman Jim Clark today opened a splendidly equipped physical training college at Larkwood in Wiltshire, formerly the family home of the O'Dare family. | Now Buzz grunted, β Look what I tore out of the Daily Mail . β | Lady O'Dare commented, β I wish them well . β β |
literal | varied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21827 | Definitions of β special needs β varied widely in the questionnaire responses β some defining it as children with disabilities, some including children with behavioural and emotional problems and some including children whose first language was not English. | This made the survey difficult to interpret. |
|
metaphorical | amount | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1124 | The essays in this book do not amount to a programme: but they are intended to provide a springboard for one. | The aim is to analyse a problem which economic growth alone has failed to cure β and to consider possible new forms of public action. |
|
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17612 | Did we, we go to Edith's to see her then did we not? | ||
literal | left | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11525 | Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough, like a dream β no, like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film, a Hitchcock movie perhaps. | For a song, too, because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back, meeting a valuer, walking about the house, picking things off shelves and out of cupboards. | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house. |
metaphorical | offer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13763 | For instance, in performing its quantitative risk assessments the Health and Safety Executive will rarely deal with distances from hazardous sites in excess of 1 km (Petts 1988) and census data will not offer sufficient resolution for accurate population estimates to be made. | Furthermore, the scales at which population estimates are often required means that even EDs are too coarse for risk assessments. | It should be pointed out, however, that the National Radiological Protection Board currently uses 1 km grid square resolution population data from the 1971 Census in its radiological protection studies (Hallam et al. 1981). |
literal | outplayed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13943 | They were tremendous, and outplayed us in the first half. | But he also said: β Let's not take any credit away from Oldham. | The plastic pitch is no excuse. |
metaphorical | perched | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14179 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old, perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners' ponies, so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him. | ||
literal | remains | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15914 | Human resources should be fundamental to subjects such as ergonomics which are essentially people-centred but the concept remains procedurally undeveloped at any level from a continent through countries, regions and companies down to particular working systems. | This is one reason why policy makers never seem to take account fully of the people affected by their decisions. |
|
literal | describes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4837 | Dangermond (1985) describes the use of the ARC/INFO NETWORK module for use in emergency planning situations. | He describes how a road network is digitized and subsequently analysed using allocation, districting and routeing algorithms. |
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literal | cos | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4234 | cos I've noticed it's very sticky on here, that you should wipe it cos it | ||
literal | leave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11415 | It's the nice ones that leave their drink there. | ||
metaphorical | enacted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5653 | Whatever the justifications for introducing this policy, it serves to underline the fact that sentencing in murder cases is enacted without each case being considered individually, after hearing representations from the offender's counsel, and without a sentence announced in court and subject to appeal. | In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers, terrorist killings, murder during robbery, and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children, fixing a minimum of twenty years' imprisonment for these offenders. | |
literal | required | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16170 | Evacuation plans are required to cover an area within a distance of 2.4 km; these detail the roles to be played by the emergency services. | Nuclear power stations must prepare a plan and submit this to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and Health and Safety Executive for approval. | The very narrow emergency planning zones contrast with those in the USA (Collins 1981), where planning is required up to 16 km from the site to cover exposure to radiation plumes. |
literal | provides | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15032 | This module has been developed using IBM's Graphics Kernel System and provides a number of display screens. | Southworth et al. (1989) have enhanced the MASSVAC model with the addition of a colour graphics module which they call MVOPL. | The most interesting are those which portray population flows as scaled ribbons on the network diagram, and evacuation shelter capacities as bar diagrams. |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8783 | Perhaps when they come back they've got six months you know they've got a month's work on their hands. | ||
metaphorical | maintain | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12480 | that of an instruction in the martial arts compatible with the maintenance of a prince's peace; that of an outlet for competitive instincts within the claustrophobic confines of a court; and that of display to maintain princely social status. | Yet they supplied real needs:. | So they flourished everywhere. |
literal | provide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14970 | Such investments had a double purpose, for they could bring in income and provide a political bonus. | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end, but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds. | 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. |
literal | claims | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3196 | He claims that's been done. | Indeed yes. | Exactly. |
literal | cost | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4249 | Well what does it cost to get a little what's a name now? | You just never been round to look. |
|
literal | destroyed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4908 | Although destroyed, she has also escaped. | She leaps from an architectural monument to a phallocentric world. | 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. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20659 | Yes I think I did. | Yes. |
|
metaphorical | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22641 | To be sure there was still a strong response opposing Enoch Powell's call for repatriation, from all shades of political opinion, but the racialization of public debate about the 1985 riots went much further than 1980β1. | Peregrine Worsthorne, for example, used the ferocity of the confrontations in Handsworth, Brixton, and Tottenham to argue that there was a major question mark over the possibility of assimilating the β coloured population β into mainstream β British values β (Sunday Telegraph, 29 September 1985). | |
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7455 | When he didn't get any response, he patted the Uzi beside him on the steel floor. | ||
literal | ensure | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5782 | Thus, even if it would be excessive to sweep large numbers of the deaths now recorded as β accidents β into the law of homicide, there may be sufficient justification for creating or enforcing offences designed to ensure safe conditions of work, safe goods, safe buildings, and so on. | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres. | It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater. |
metaphorical | lay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11295 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist, now lay in a wilderness, amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat. | A sudden gust of rain dashed against the red bricks that were already stained in patches by water. | Dirty grey clouds tumbled across the sky above the slate roof, now the only thing that shone, glazed with rain. |
literal | arranged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1365 | She brushed her mistress's hair and piled it on top of her head in a cluster of curls, carefully and meticulously arranged to look quite casual. | Then she turned to helping Mrs Carson. | It was a style Ruth had devised herself and Mrs Carson was delighted with the result. |
literal | provide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14982 | With two-dimensional representations such as maps it remains important to avoid too much homogeneity and provide substructure in the form of main roads and key buildings or other features such as rivers. | See, for example, Fig. 5.3 |
|
literal | produced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14791 | A number of stories using such imagery were run by both the quality and the popular press during this period, but similar arguments are to be found in parliamentary debates (Hansard, vol. 84, 21 October 1985, cols. 30-.46, 388), and even in official reports produced by the police on the riots in Birmingham and London. | Even the Daily Mail, which deployed the clearest use of β race β and β outside agitator β arguments, ran a major story on Broadwater Farm under the headline: β Burnt-out hulks litter this concrete jungle β¦ despair hangs heavy β (8 October 1985). | |
metaphorical | pointing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14487 | β We're trying to smooth the path for purchasers, and streamline the system, β says Graham Harrison, pointing out that live telephone bidding will also be available for those unable to attend. | Holiday homes and commercial property have been included among the lots to be auctioned. |
|
metaphorical | serve | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18215 | We have now collected a good number of formulae which will serve us well in the following sections. | ||
metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3420 | In Kahlo's work there is a powerful mix of these discourses, yet her role as an archetypal woman painter has come to dominate responses to her work. | It is through her emergence as a cult painter of the feminist movement of the 1970s that her current reputation has evolved. |
|
metaphorical | shift | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18385 | That proposal, if implemented, would shift almost all the decision-making in homicide cases from the trial to the sentencing stage: the only issue of any consequence in most cases would be the sentence to be imposed, and all the distinctions now drawn at the stage of criminal liability would be reflected in the sentence alone. | In England there has been a proposal that we should do away with all these distinctions, leaving a single offence of criminal homicide. | The jury would have no role in most homicide cases, since a plea of guilty would be the norm. |
literal | parked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14058 | Well you wouldn't dare leave your car parked. | ||
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7911 | But I did go out or something. | ||
literal | gripping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9048 | There's no reason why they shouldn't be funny or gripping even if they don't use many words . β | β A lot of books used in schools are technically readable but rather drab stories. | |
metaphorical | present | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14646 | It is easy to present the relevant equations; we have all of eqns (1.1) -(1.7) but have to substitute a/at = O, yielding formula. | ||
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22085 | Do you want the details anyway? | ||
literal | construct | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3992 | Merchant et al. (1987) for example, use the image processing system ERDAS to construct an index of vulnerability to groundwater pollution; this uses variables such as depth to water table, soil type, slope and so on (see Estes et al. 1987 for a similar approach). | As Foresman (1986) suggests, we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role. | Barringer et al. (1987) overlay data on soil type and geology with that of groundwater quality (hardness and corrosivity measures) and build a linear model which shows that the background environmental variables are good predictors of the water quality indices. |
metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3461 | Only certain types of property normally come to auction, however. | Traditionally, country cottages and houses which have unusual or unique features or are in need of a lot of renovation may be auctioned, if only because valuation is likely to be difficult. |
|
metaphorical | investigate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10198 | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers: negative electrons and some positive particles, which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment. | We shall assume that the two kinds of particles have equal densities and move in opposite directions. |
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literal | spoke | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19029 | John House spoke of the history of the gathering of the images, an emptiness here Jacob wrestling the Angel), an unexpected illumination there. | The colleague looked at Frederica with an apparently absent-minded scanning attention. | Frederica listened attentively; went on and signed the Visitors' Book. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16677 | Cos Ken said, first of all he couldn't find any and he said oh he said perhaps I should've bought them when I saw them, nine ninety nine. | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then, they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones. |
|
literal | determined | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4956 | What it means is that the time of release from prison is determined by the Home Secretary, on the advice of the Parole Board and the Lord Chief Justice, rather than by the judge at the trial. | This brings the discussion to a crucial point: what does the sentence of life imprisonment mean in practice, and what would be the alternative? | In procedural terms, therefore, the life sentence involves a transfer of function: normally it is the judge who determines the sentence (or at least its upper limit, since earlier release on parole may be possible), whereas a life sentence entrusts that function to the executive, who must first ascertain the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge. |
literal | knowing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11060 | β If they do work, that is wonderful β but we have no way of knowing for sure. | There have been no controlled trials of the Gerson therapy. |
|
metaphorical | offers | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13803 | One method in particular, kriging (now available as part of the UNIRAS software), offers not only a contoured surface but also an estimate of the standard error at any point on the map. | The point worth making here is that there are many alternative schemes for interpolating from irregular point data (Lam 1983). | Where this is high it suggests that an additional sampling station might be set up. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16615 | And erm Mark was in last week he said | Students, yeah I know. | |
literal | succeed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19543 | Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously; he also turned down Balcarres's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year. | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken. | Faced with Chamberlain's proposition, and without a majority of his own, Long had no option but to agree. |
literal | construct | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3995 | Whether attempting to construct a database of resources for use in planning responses to nuclear emergencies, developing optimal routes for scheduling the safe transport of hazardous substances, or monitoring the health implications of a disaster, GIS can assist in identifying possibilities and formulating solutions. | Few areas of the application of GIS technology can be as socially significant, or environmentally relevant, as the management of emergencies and disasters due to natural and technological hazards. | The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. |
literal | anticipated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1180 | The punitive approach anticipated for the Probation Service in the White Paper is underpinned by a definition of punishment that resides β in the restrictions on liberty and in the enforcement of the orders β. | The White Paper goes on to emphasize: β It is the loss of liberty involved in carrying out the terms of the order rather than the activities carried out during the order which is the punishment β (p. 18, para. 4.4). |
|
metaphorical | show | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18557 | β They want to show you that they trust you . β | ||
literal | acknowledged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.742 | 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. | Mrs Huntley sighed; her brother whom she had loved, but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault, had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth. | At least, Mrs Huntley thought hopefully, she had stopped wondering, unbecomingly and stridently, how her uncle could have been fooled by Angela Morgan. |
metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3460 | One should finish it come on | ||
metaphorical | remains | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15912 | Experience with practical calculations helps, but even after years of work one usually remains this side of infallibility. | It's hard to tell. | I regret to say that there are no general guidelines available. |
metaphorical | tied-up | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20896 | β I feel like a Maharajah waiting for the tiger to pounce on the tied-up goat, β Forster grinned. | β I hope I don't have to wait all night . β |
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metaphorical | carries | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2844 | The large frond carries many branches, on which there are numbers of leaf-like pinnules β more or less alternating on either side of the branch. | The original material of the axis shows up black against the background of the rock. | The specimen is 25 cm long. |
metaphorical | proceed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14758 | However the map does require more intellectual effort than does the routine not only in making decisions about how to proceed but also in filtering out the required information from the massive irrelevance (for a particular task) which is equally available. | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost, whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary. | Thus, one would expect the use of the maps to be slower than the use of routines with the human performance being more versatile but less predictable. |
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127,
134
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6764 | The point is that the traditional concepts of intention and recklessness do not, of themselves, appear to be sufficiently well focused to mark out those killings which are the most heinous. | Four alternative approaches have been described, and many others could be listed. | The law must resort to some kind of moral and social evaluation of conduct if it is to identify and separate out the most heinous killings. |
literal | justified | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
50
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10362 | One might ask whether motorists are ever justified in knowingly taking risks with other people's lives. | This example assumes that a sympathy for motorists with overwhelm any tendency to logical analysis. | Yet if the example is modified a little, so that the overtaking is on a country road at night and the risk is known to be slight, it becomes questionable whether the causing of death in these circumstances should be labelled in the same way as intentional killings. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7291 | Have to get out one of them dolls Phil. | Gonna have to get one of them dolls, she loves them. |
|
literal | frowning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7067 | The phone rang and he picked it up, frowning. | John McLeish was in his office, Saturday or no Saturday, telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork. | One of the pleasures of Saturday working was that the phone did not ring all the time. |
metaphorical | sent | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
124,
128
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18185 | Finally, after the third month passed with no rent received, Debbie phoned the tenants, asked them to pay her directly, and sent Landlords a recorded-delivery letter, which was returned, and finally one by ordinary post stating that Landlords were no longer employed as the managing agents. | She repeatedly phoned Landlords, but was either unable to get an answer or told that manager Howard Keizner was unavailable. | Because they hadn't done any management, Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant- finding fee and therefore owed her Β£2,400 (3 months' rent plus the deposit). |
metaphorical | approached | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1277 | And now it approached. | Mrs Carson, knowing how much was involved, had excused Ruth from all other duties until Anna's bedtime hour. | She took off the voluminous apron Cook had lent her and went in search of her charge. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
163,
166
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17684 | Irrespective of the use of surrogates, monitoring environmental processes only makes sense over time-scales which are extended by human standards (hence the IGBP (see below) is designed to run for two or three decades); | ||
metaphorical | operated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
69,
77
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13871 | The convex, middle part of the thorax contained the musculature that operated the appendages (which, as usual, are not preserved), and the relatively large volume of this region shows that the musculature was powerful. | The thorax of the large-eyed trilobite is remarkably long compared with the average trilobite (compare Fig. 33). | The construction of this giant-eyed trilobite suggests that it lived an actively swimming life well above the bottom, and possibly in the surface waters of the sea. |
literal | sprawled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19053 | His gaze came back to George, still sprawled over the control desk. | ||
metaphorical | getting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7538 | How you getting on? | That another one? |
|
metaphorical | scoop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
82,
87
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17527 | Sir: Labour does not need a commitment to proportional representation in order to scoop most of the centre ground at the next general election. | ||
metaphorical | checked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
24,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3101 | He stood, door in hand, checked by something in the way his visitors, a man and a woman, were standing. | The man, a stocky, greying fifty-year-old in a navy raincoat over a suit, his hair cut short, was attended by a uniformed policewoman, hair smartly set under the cap, her eyes watchful in the wide, flat, placid face, and both of them were standing square and stolid. |
|
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
127,
130
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7493 | come home from work she said I've been looking round in Boots and that for you, she said er I've decided, she said I was gonna get you a gift voucher. | ||
literal | lifted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
96,
102
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11664 | It swung open at his touch but closing it, as always, was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which, no matter how frequent his visits, would always be alien territory. | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue. | |
literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
62,
67
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11075 | Half Moon Putney 93 Lower Richmond Rd, SW15 (788 2387) Better known for its jazz, but a good, wholesome venue for rock nonetheless. | ||
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16774 | In his sermon, Dr Runcie said: β We should ever recognise the scandal that Anglicans and Roman Catholics must celebrate two eucharists to make one memorial of our redemption on the day of our Lord . β | Though Dr Runcie and his party could not take Holy Communion at the papal mass, he had earlier celebrated the eucharist at the Anglican church in Rome after three demonstrators rose from the congregation as he ascended the pulpit; the visit has been dogged by protests from supporters of the Rev Ian Paisley. | |
metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
138,
142
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12549 | In his sermon, Dr Runcie said: β We should ever recognise the scandal that Anglicans and Roman Catholics must celebrate two eucharists to make one memorial of our redemption on the day of our Lord . β | Though Dr Runcie and his party could not take Holy Communion at the papal mass, he had earlier celebrated the eucharist at the Anglican church in Rome after three demonstrators rose from the congregation as he ascended the pulpit; the visit has been dogged by protests from supporters of the Rev Ian Paisley. | |
literal | loves | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12297 | Gonna have to get one of them dolls, she loves them. | Have to get out one of them dolls Phil. | |
literal | assessing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1572 | There are great difficulties in assessing health effects, however, since exposure varies greatly from house to house within small neighbourhoods. | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon. | Carefully designed case-control studies are therefore required to measure the separate effect of radon exposure after controlling for smoking behaviour and other risk factors. |
metaphorical | find | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
74,
78
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6599 | She was a very private woman, I suspect one of those fortunate people who find no other company more agreeable than their own. | Perhaps I should have tried harder too. | It always seems presumptuous to encroach on that self-sufficiency. |
literal | talking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
107,
114
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20207 | In spite of apparently incompatible personalities β she is small and shy, he is large and does most of the talking β they have an empathy which is essential to the way they work, a persistent mutual pestering. | The success of the Ahlbergs' working relationship must have a lot to do with their long and happy marriage. | |
literal | thinks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20696 | He thinks of wicked as being good, he doesn't, cause Mandy says wicked. | That's a really wicked thing to say, he went, no it's not it's bad, it's not wicked. | |
literal | walks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
183,
188
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22008 | And now, for the first time, he thought that he could smell the North Sea, that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays, of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems, of his aunt's tall figure at his side, binoculars round her neck, striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds. | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds, their lumbered heads straining in the wind. | And here, barring the road, was the familiar old farm gate still in place. |
literal | seems | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
5
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18003 | seems to be wide awake could of got up | ||
metaphorical | work | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22844 | Hips don't work properly hmm | ||
literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8536 | You're gonna kill somebody one day you know using that! | ||
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20743 | At first he had thought that he could write a plain, exact verse with no figurative language, in which a yellow chair was the thing itself, a yellow chair, as a round gold apple was an apple or a sunflower a sunflower. | He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles, the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love, the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel, the asylum fears. | Sometimes he still saw the brushstrokes, as it were, in this naked way, so that his earlier thoughts of this garden had to be undone, the idea of black wings to be stripped from the painted leafage, the vulgar idea of blood splashes washed off the notation of geraniums. |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8623 | As soon as they got home, Anne started getting Abigail to bed. | Their cases humped upstairs and put into the bedroom, Adam looked Rufus Fletcher up in the phone book. |
|
literal | started | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
35,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19194 | 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 | Mind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
4
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.328 | Mind I saw them in tt they were the same price in erm You Can't Go Wrong and tt the place opposite Woolworths in Caerphilly | Yeah. | |
literal | envisaged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5837 | It is envisaged that the totality of activities will extend the existing State of the European Environment report (CEC 1988) through addressing the issues of the quality and sensitivity of the environment and also the pressures upon it. | Considerable stress is laid by the Commission on collaboration with national data-gathering agencies and with states adjacent to the Community's borders. | Priorities for the new agency include study of atmospheric emissions and quality, water resources and quality (including the marine environment), soil erosion and pollution and important land resources, and biotopes and nature conservation. |
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