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literal | spoke | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19027 | I spoke to that was Monday night, yeah, she's been head of department, did I tell you that? | ||
metaphorical | amounts | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1128 | They seem to think that you can ask a businessman what his requirements are and get an answer that amounts to a draft system specification. | But many system developers are unable to assess requirements properly. | A doctor doesn't ask his patient what treatment to prescribe. |
metaphorical | showing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18508 | Most of the popular books showing the Mesozoic giants in their natural setting portray them wallowing about in swamps flanked by deep vegetation, their bodies largely under water. | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention, and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago. | Surely an animal of this bulk, it was argued, must be partly supported by water, and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft, luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps. |
literal | letting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11633 | If the letting agent is not managing the flat, the tenant's deposit should be given to the owner immediately. | The agency will keep the tenant's deposit until the tenant leaves. | |
literal | smiling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18785 | Theresa looked at Dalgliesh without smiling and said a grave thank you. | She reminded him of pictures of the young Elizabeth Tudor, the same red- gold hair framing a curiously adult face both secretive and self-composed, the same sharp nose and wary eyes. |
|
literal | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3648 | people are coming to do some Christian teaching for us, you know somebody from the | ||
metaphorical | rattled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15403 | We rattled them from the first minute and didn't give them any breathing space. | This was a great performanc. | We were helter-skelter for 90 minutes and we scored three great goals. |
metaphorical | point | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14465 | The doctors point out in the British Medical Journal that, though crack dependency is not a direct risk factor for Aids, prostitutes β trying to maintain expensive crack habits may be tempted into unsafe sex practices β¦ which in turn may lead to an increase in the spread of Aids β. | According to them, crack is widely available in Birmingham and most prostitutes they know use it daily. | |
literal | claimed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3191 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings, whose competence to declare war could not be impugned: thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI; they claimed discretion in the matter; and in 1184, the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus, through fear that its ranks might melt away. | So it could be a powerful weapon. | The contrast with the united front Louis VI and his troops presented to the emperor Henry V in 1124 was marked. |
metaphorical | sitting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18670 | In reality you just invent a tale, as if you were sitting round a fire in a cave . β | But people seem to think that stories are written to a prescription, that you sit down and say, you don't want it to be sexist, you don't want it to be racist. | |
literal | shoved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18453 | He sucked on his cigarette, furiously threw it into the fireplace, shoved his hands in his pockets, and glared at Adam. | You also grew up watching Grandfather's clients literally get away with murder . β | β Do you want to be found washed up on the seashore with a few vital bits missing? |
literal | total | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21107 | Dividends total 5p, up a penny, with a 3.75p final. | Earnings were level at 17.5p a share. | |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18102 | see that then. | And he said yeah I said I could've got two for the price of one. | Padded leisure shirts five ninety nine and I read the bloody thing out yesterday. |
literal | forget | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6884 | β But let's not forget we've still got a crisis on. | β Well, it's been a real eye-opener, β said the Exec Director. | Find the Englishman. |
metaphorical | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6955 | And I found we'd run out of milk for Anthony. | Mr Sparks doesn't think it's going to pass. | We have to have milk. |
literal | used | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21667 | Heywood and Cornelius (1989) have shown how GIS can be used for monitoring possible radiation releases and thus the relevance of GIS in nuclear emergency planning and monitoring. | They propose a national radiological spatial information system and, in a pilot project in Cumbria, have integrated several layers of data within ARC/INFO to show what this might involve (Fig. 10.2). |
|
metaphorical | splayed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19016 | This boat was called Dream Baby, and she was clearly an expensive infant for rods and whip-aerials and outriggers splayed from her upperworks like the antennae of some outlandish insect. | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue, black, silver, green and white had been designed to disguise a boat's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains, so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas. | She boasted a harpoon walkway, a fly bridge, and, above the highest wheel-platform, an aluminium canopy which held a radar aerial. |
literal | provides | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15034 | Thus it is a particular form of job aid which provides the operator with information on a system and its performance. | It is part of the communication package from the designer to the user. | |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8790 | She never got her use back and she never spoke again. | Ah well, and Aun I mean Aunty Lilly was like that Gordon. | |
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22635 | Then she dried her eyes on the hem of her petticoat and went slowly back to the house. | Sick at heart, she wept. | |
literal | pay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14118 | I agree, it's clearly a warning to pay, but I swear I know nothing about it. | Mike stared at his brother, then slowly said, β Not me. | It couldn't have been the brothers β they'd be even less subtle β¦ β |
literal | questioning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15297 | This is a clear example of the extension of the Prevention of Terrorism Act where criteria for stopping, questioning and searching are purely subjective to the official involved. | Will a person's accent, dress or skin colour indicate the potential terrorist or, for that matter, football hooligan or drug pusher? |
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literal | prefer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14612 | Top of the Pops stuff doesn't, in the sense that people who like to go and see live music don't people who like that kind of music prefer the prefer it in a | ||
literal | understanding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21516 | In describing the project, a non-punitive model for understanding probation practice will be developed. | Issue will be taken with the appropriateness of applying the concept of punishment to the probation context through reference to a demanding and successful probation project concerned with offenders in trouble through drink. | This non-punitive paradigm will provide a framework for contrasting the efficacy of current practice with future plans inappropriately to transform probation work into β a new approach to punishment in the community β (p. 18, para. 4.3). |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16856 | So I said send me a cheque and I'll go and shop. | he'd realized that it was my birthday, and wha, what did I want? | |
literal | contained | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4036 | The room, which contained nothing superfluous, nothing pretentious, was both pleasing and extraordinarily comforting and, for a moment, he wondered why. | Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun. | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough, the soft ticking of the wall- mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall, the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door, the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs, the open hearth? |
literal | remains | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15910 | But the best answers are probably obtained where the functional design of the fossil points to the same life habits as a living analogue, and where both are consistent with the geological circumstances in which the fossil remains occur. | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached (unless somebody dredges up a β living fossil β from the depths of the ocean) β there are only varying degrees of probability. | |
literal | according | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.688 | The Picassos, according to Sotheby's valuer, were β sloppy β. | They say there were blank sheets bearing Dali's signature alongside 20,000 fake Miros and 650 fake Chagalls. | |
literal | refused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15767 | He placed the proofs on the desk, refused Alice Mair's offer of coffee and followed her back to the front door. | She walked out with him to the car and said: β I was sorry about your aunt β sorry for you, I mean. |
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literal | toured | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21139 | When New Zealand last toured Ireland in 1978 Leinster were ignored. | Leinster have been undermined by their failure to secure prestige fixtures since the mid-Seventies. | The same thing happened in 1984 when the province was denied a fixture against the Wallabies. |
literal | getting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7553 | Oh, oh no, you're getting confused, you know the book that is out, that is on | ||
literal | gives | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7802 | Moreover, recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic (every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic. | Thus no meteorologist would attempt to forecast the weather 2 or 3 days ahead without using a mathematical model based on observations from all around the world. | Thus, to understand some local and many regional, national and continental and all global environmental events, we need to have a global perspective and hold global databases (Rhind and Mounsey 1989; Mounsey and Tomlinson 1988). |
literal | allowed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1071 | I'm not allowed to Wednesdays cos your mum don't watch it on a Wednesday! | ||
literal | According | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2 | 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. | These include not only central and local government but also major utility companies and transport suppliers. | 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. |
literal | progressed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14833 | By 1990, IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects (IGBP 1990) addressing these four themes. | 1 . Documenting and predicting global change; 2 . Observing and improving our understanding of dominant forcing functions; 3 . Improving our understanding of interactive phenomena in the total Earth system; 4 . Assessing those effects of global change which will be large scale and cause major modifications to both renewable and non-renewable resources. | In addition, plans for regional research centres and for the data and information systems for IGBP (known as IGBP-DIS) had been announced. |
literal | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20949 | Nigel mentioned, he told me it was erm er like four, five hundred in tt to | ||
metaphorical | snapped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18800 | β As were ours, β snapped back Sorge. | β But your hands weren't that clean. |
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metaphorical | barring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1777 | And here, barring the road, was the familiar old farm gate still in place. | 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. | 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 | pull | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15065 | I was calling Sweetman's bluff, confident he would not dare pull the trigger, and equally confident that my marine training would let me turn him into mincemeat. | The gun's threat had not stopped my advance. | I was also half drunk, and thus filled with the Dutch courage offered by Mama Sipcott's worst white wine. |
literal | lay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11297 | Then he pulled down the sheet, which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night, and she lay naked before him. | And when he had undone her gown, and had difficulty in lifting it over her head, she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off. | |
literal | asked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1475 | Jamie asked, anxiously. | β How long had she been there? β | |
literal | relied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15868 | (When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury, when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures.) | His concern was solely with effectiveness rather than style; he rarely spoke with more than brief notes and left it to the occasion to furnish the words. | As an extempore speaker he was able to tailor his words to his audience's reactions and so convey the impression of personal conversation even when addressing thousands. |
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8009 | 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 | deporting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4761 | Arresting or deporting the tens of thousands of Palestinian professionals who would be employed in perfectly apolitical, harmless and humanitarian jobs can only further isolate the Israeli Government. | Israel's reaction, however hostile, could only further our cause. | Half-way measures can only imply half-way success. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10673 | From the optical properties of this mineral we know that the lens was able to interpret light coming from a direction more or less at right-angles to the lens surface. | The trilobite eye was of a compound type, and each lens was made up of a calcite crystal. | 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. |
metaphorical | add | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.804 | So it's like one, two, one, two and one there and but put like erm seven add seven add seven is. | Those two add? | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10712 | I don't know how she could manage the stairs | ||
literal | argued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1307 | For Mrs Bujok it was argued that the 1936 Act was designed to secure in the interests of the community at large that statutory nuisances did not exist. | It was submitted that an owner cannot turn his back on his property because when he purchases and>takes on the responsibility of letting, he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate. |
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literal | identifies | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9678 | In the last part of this contribution, Brown identifies a number of priorities for future research. | Like Gatrell and Vincent and Shepherd before him, he is concerned with the lack of detailed geographical information particularly in this case with reference to the years between censuses. |
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literal | wandering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22051 | In it, a small child roams the streets, talking to strangers, until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram. | The Ahlbergs have been accused of not facing up to the harsh realities of life, of being too cosy and sweet, but their latest picture book, Bye Bye Baby, published today, breaks the mould. | |
literal | digress | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5075 | This is to digress. | What of this thirst that can be satisfied by an unquenching drink? |
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metaphorical | draws | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5341 | 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. | Does the β grievous bodily harm β rule extend the definition of murder too far? | 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. |
literal | married | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12788 | Of course he knew there was no possibility of this, now or when he returned home, for when you were married you never could be alone. | He would have liked very much to be alone. | Presumably that was the point. |
literal | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2717 | Lawton came and crouched down in front of it. | ||
literal | offending | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13757 | Government concern about the problem of drink-related offending is as old as the Probation Service. | Indeed, as Bochel (1976) has shown, the establishment of a Probation Service in England and Wales was inextricably linked with work undertaken with offenders in trouble through drink. |
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literal | hold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9553 | It would be technically possible, for instance, to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world, akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population. | Parenthetically, the form in which the data may be held can affect dramatically the scale of the problem faced. | In practice, legislation generally forbids such data being held thus and distributed in anything other than area aggregate form; the cross-tabulations commonly employed (e.g. to give tables of population numbers broken down by age and sex) often result in a great multiplication of the data volumes. |
metaphorical | competing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3717 | First, it would consolidate the structures of the developing national authority which is competing to replace the occupation authority. | AN ESCALATION of the Intifada in this direction would serve two purposes at once. | Second, it would consolidate the image and essence of the Intifada as a constructive, not a destructive, force. |
literal | wait | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21894 | He could wait six months couldn't he? | ||
literal | hesitated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9505 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings, whose competence to declare war could not be impugned: thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI; they claimed discretion in the matter; and in 1184, the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus, through fear that its ranks might melt away. | So it could be a powerful weapon. | The contrast with the united front Louis VI and his troops presented to the emperor Henry V in 1124 was marked. |
metaphorical | caught | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2927 | β He caught a flight to Frankfurt. | The he hired a car, but the car was found abandoned on the outskirts of Frankfurt. |
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metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17769 | To see a unified Germany. | They all had one dream. | To regain what they had lost. |
literal | need | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13495 | We don't need cat food, we haven't got a cat, silly girl. | We don't need cat food. | |
metaphorical | closed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3263 | Sari Nusseibeh, a leading Palestinian intellectual, is professor of philosophy at Bir Zeit, the West Bank university closed by the Israelis early last year. | His ideas are widely influential among Palestinians. |
|
metaphorical | took | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21094 | β I suppose it is possible that squatters or other vagrants took possession of the house between the time of my uncle's death and the sale of the property. | Certainly my son never let it or allowed anyone to occupy it on either a temporary or permanent basis. |
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literal | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20009 | Yeah but you always sell a few to take out do n't | ||
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11730 | 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. | I've written it all down. | He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. |
literal | shown | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18528 | Lonesome Dove, a five-part story of a Texas-to-Montana cattle drive, also shown on CBS last year, was the best-watched TV mini-series of any kind in America for five years. | It won substantial critical acclaim and will show in Britain next year. |
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metaphorical | shows | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18544 | Enlargement shows a section through the lenses to show the direction of the field of view. | Twice its natural size. | |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8877 | Why, what you got on? | ||
literal | talking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20200 | Here's us, heading for trouble and God knows what else, and in the middle of you talking about Nordhausen, I start thinking of Peter. | β I know. | Wondering what the hell he's up to. |
literal | opening | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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119
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13852 | Francis Morgan stood and stared at them, and even before the man stepped forward steadily, hand extended, mouth opening to speak, he understood who they were and what they had come to tell him. | ||
literal | letting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
68,
75
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11638 | The self-regulating NAEA has 10,000 members, of which 2,000 also do letting and management. | But Galsworthy believes there is a clear need for the licensing of all letting agents. |
|
literal | posted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14547 | He posted the detective constable he had with him back down the path to join his colleague, armed with instructions to repel all attempts by anyone, however senior or armed with whatever authority, to go anywhere near the body unless he, Sergeant Black, personally accompanied them. | Then he climbed into the Land Rover beside his two passengers and drove off fast, with the aim of abandoning Jamie to the custody of his aunt as quickly as possible. |
|
literal | choked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3129 | 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 | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
62,
66
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16986 | β Angela's taking a few days off β she hasn't been well, β he said, easily. | Peter Yeo, who had known this particular juggernaut since he had his first small factory and two stores and dirt under his fingernails from shifting packing-cases personally, was not fazed by the question. | β I know she's been working very hard for you. |
literal | hopes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
36
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9614 | Colin Pavey of British Telecom hopes that they will be running by the end of the year. | β Two would be business -orientated and three would be community-orientated and located in schools. |
|
metaphorical | harm | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9252 | We do not wish to harm you, or your state. | Be with them in peace so that we may remain with our family and children in peace. | We wish to be unharmed, in our own state. |
literal | niggled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
95,
102
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13604 | Wyllie is confident his Western Samoan wing, Va'aiga Tuigamala, will play although he is still niggled by an ankle injury received against Neath two weeks ago. | The Test flanker Alan Whetton, whose hamstring injury kept him out against Wales, will form a powerful back row with Kevin Schuler and the international No.8, Zinzan Brooke. |
|
metaphorical | combine | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
266,
273
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3340 | As a delinquent nine-year-old at his prep school, he had once been required by the headmaster to write out in his best handwriting the whole of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes, old Gumboil, economical in this as in all matters, believing that writing lines should combine punishment with literary and religious education. | One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall. | The words, in that round childish script, had remained with him. |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
58
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8266 | Don't you remember the last time it was so beautiful going across across at home. | It was really beautiful I shall go alone |
|
literal | prove | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
114,
119
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14922 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey, in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food. | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton, and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food. | Puzzles remain, even though we can be certain of the rudiments of the story. |
literal | bring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
122,
127
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2341 | 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. |
|
metaphorical | says | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
103,
107
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17428 | Bristol and West claims these auctions will help to bring some action to an otherwise slow market, and says it was overwhelmed by the response from people wanting to sell in this way. | Their South Molton cottage (guide price Β£44,000-Β£46,000) is one of more than 20 lots to be put up for sale at the Barnstaple auction by Bristol and West Property Services, and one of more than a hundred which the building society subsidiary will be auctioning in eight West Country venues over a three-day period. | |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8848 | We've only got little. | ||
literal | stepping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
70,
78
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19297 | So here he was, a distinguished public man, also an artist of a kind, stepping obediently through Room I (French 1880s) and Room II (British 1880s and 1890s), on a lead grey morning, to the pale grey, classical, quiet place where the bright light shone and sang off pigment so that the phrase, miraculous stuff, seemed merely accurate. | Early. | |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
289,
292
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17797 | Where there is no capital punishment, however, the question of how many degrees of homicide it is desirable to have calls for careful weighing of the principle of fair labelling (see Chapter 3.3 (l)) against the cost and time arguments mobilised by the policy of efficient administration (see Chapter 3.3 (m)). | That cost is not difficult to justify where capital punishment is the penalty for first- degree murder. | |
literal | burn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
188,
192
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2515 | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England, tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north. | The hollow barking of a dog came from one of the stone sheds, but there was no sign of life around the buildings. | |
literal | growing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
109,
116
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9062 | Fortunately, technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades. | This all presents major problems of data storage, handling (especially for global data sets), display and dissemination. | Indeed, this may grossly under-represent the present situation: the rapid spread of UNIX-based systems seems to facilitate competition and, at the time of writing, performance of workstations per unit cost seems to be increasing at about 50 per cent per annum. |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17810 | Yes well you see? | He rushes to La Borg and that's also in Italy |
|
metaphorical | fell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6462 | She fell asleep to the sound of music drifting upwards from the drawing-room. | Though she thought sleep would never come, eventually it did. | |
literal | joined | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
56
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10334 | Seeds of the maple family are typically in pairs, joined at the base, with flat β wings β that help the seeds to disperse. | 62 Miocene maple seeds, Acer trilobatum. | Seeds of Acer are rare compared with the leaves, which can be found in rocks dating back to the Cretaceous period. |
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12060 | Daniel looked at the pink sky, the twisted trunks, the silvery leaves, the rhythmic earth streaked with yellow ochre, with pink, with pale blue, with red-brown. | Frederica and Alexander held a discussion of natural supernaturalism. | Olives, Frederica agreed with Alexander, could not recall the Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, in the day of Van Gogh the pastor's son, the lay preacher. |
metaphorical | served | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
56
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18227 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises. | The justices held Mrs Bujok was not required to ensure that the council were aware of the defective state of the property prior to laying the information. |
|
literal | yeah | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23093 | Some people can, yeah. | That's right, yes. | Mm. |
metaphorical | enacting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5655 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings. | If the council did not react to that notice, then would be the time for the tenant to exercise the right to prosecute. | |
metaphorical | constructed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4005 | This β black β criminal minority was constructed not only into the leading force behind the riots, but sometimes as the only force. | Indeed, throughout September and October 1985, and during the following months, the imagery of race continued to dominate debate about both the causes and the policy outcomes of the riots. |
|
metaphorical | carry | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
106,
111
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2846 | 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. | In other words, does English criminal law pick out the most heinous forms of killing as murders and manslaughters, or are the boundaries frozen by tradition? | 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. |
metaphorical | linked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11818 | This is often linked with a supposed denunciatory effect β the idea that the mandatory life sentence denounces murder as emphatically as possible β and with a supposed general deterrent effect, in declaring that there is no mitigation of sentence available for this crime. | It places the offender under the State's control, as it were, for the remainder of his or her life. | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety. |
literal | sat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17141 | He sat in seven minutes didn't he? | Oh, yes I know. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16666 | Buzz said, β But surely β¦ β |
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