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literal | overheard | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13955 | This remark was overheard by Adam as, in pale blue shirt and jeans, he sauntered through the door. | He said, β Elinor, you allowed ample provision in the trust for helping Clare β if the trustees consider that help is needed. |
|
metaphorical | lead | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11320 | The road he was on, veering left, would lead eventually to the station but was, he knew, seldom used since normal traffic and all heavy vehicles used the new access road to the north. | To the north the broken arches and stumps of the ruined Benedictine abbey gleamed golden in the afternoon sun against the crinkled blue of the sea and, breasting a small ridge, he glimpsed for the first time the topsail of Larksoken Mill and beyond it, against the skyline, the great grey bulk of Larksoken Nuclear power Station. | The headland was empty and almost bare, the few straggling trees, distorted by the wind, struggled to keep their precarious hold in the uncompromising soil. |
literal | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20953 | Oh right, I thought I told you then. | ||
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7321 | I'll check on Clare when I get back to London . β | He said, β Elinor, you allowed ample provision in the trust for helping Clare β if the trustees consider that help is needed. | He put a pile of papers on a side table. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8145 | Well you can go back | ||
literal | required | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16166 | Each WRA is required to produce a waste disposal plan and these are starting to appear. | These contain some valuable material on disposal practices, and volumes of waste generated and disposed of by each waste regulation authority (WRA) β counties in England, districts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. | They too contain useful material on, for instance, the locations of sites, though individual site licences must be consulted for details of what each is permitted to take in the way of hazardous wastes. |
literal | described | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4831 | Until then, he had been that most inhuman of creatures β the public figure described by others as β very human β. | But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton. | Now he really was human β unscripted, jokey, even a bit passionate. |
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9434 | God help the British plants under the new regime! β | β He really hates our guts! | |
literal | stolen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19327 | We've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I've been bitten by bugs in a hooker's bed, tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair, stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin. | β According to all the books, a secret agent's life's meant to be glamorous. | Don't take that the wrong way. |
literal | updated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21573 | The diagrams are updated periodically during the course of the simulation. | The most interesting are those which portray population flows as scaled ribbons on the network diagram, and evacuation shelter capacities as bar diagrams. | |
literal | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15200 | Sweetman took a pair of polarised sunglasses from his shirt pocket and put them on before inspecting me again. | He did not seem to like what he saw. |
|
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22595 | In the evening, bone-tired, she left the kitchen and went to put a reluctant Anna to bed. | Then she turned to helping Mrs Carson. |
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literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20479 | D' ya think so? | Yeah. | |
literal | seem | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17860 | But seen face to face, even in the informality of her own house, the absence of a spark of sexuality and, he sensed, a deep-seated reserve, made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected, and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space. | In her publicity photographs she could, he recalled, look beautiful in a somewhat intimidating, intellectual and very English mould. | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive. |
literal | depends | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4750 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw's introductory statement in which he spoke of (a) the need to β remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets β, and (b) the urgency of developing β policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends β (Hansard, vol. 8, 16 July 1981: col. 1405). | The first took place in the midst of the July 1981 riots, and had as its theme: β Civil Disturbances β. | The β scourge of criminal violence β was, Whitelaw argued, a danger to the whole framework of consent and legality on which the political institutions of British society were based. |
literal | collided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3334 | Over Spain, an American B-52 bomber carrying an H-bomb had collided in mid-air with another aircraft. | Two days later, Clare's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems β no job, no man β when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help: they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident. | The H-bomb, with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT, had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain. |
metaphorical | forced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6853 | But they might have to be supplemented by mercenaries from Flanders and the Low Countries, where the rapidly expanding population forced large numbers of young men into military careers. | The usual source of supply was town militias β Suger mentions those of Rheims, ChΓ’lons, Laon, Soissons, OrlΓ©ans, Etampes, and Paris in the royal army of 1124. | In the eyes of the faithful, these β Brabanters β, with their freebooting and lack of discipline after the end of campaigns, were as dangerous as heretics; in 1171 Frederick Barbarossa and Louis VII agreed to expel them from their lands. |
metaphorical | slipping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18738 | β Ah, fill the cup, what boots it to repeat, how time is slipping underneath our feet, β he quoted with a sigh. | ||
literal | become | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1900 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network (RIMNET) and has, as its prime responsibility, the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident. | The DoE, through Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP), was given the task of co-ordinating a national response plan, installing the radiation monitoring network and acting as lead government department in an emergency (HMSO 1988). | |
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20365 | she wants to tell us all about her wedding | ||
metaphorical | swirling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19853 | In an earlier than expected Commercial Court judgment, Mr Justice Saville found that the members had not produced enough evidence of irregularities in the β LMX spiral β, which sends catastrophe risks swirling round the market to stop the usual process of calling on cash deposits to make good syndicate losses. | ||
literal | WATCH | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.581 | WHO TO WATCH While the best that chart music can manage in the way of band names is Black Box, the pub circuit has always been ripe with imaginative handles. | Cheerfully bending ears this week somewhere in London are Bald Howlin' Bastard, Daisy Chainsaw, The Wandering Crutchless, Benny Profane, The Gordon Jackson Five and New Fast Automatic Daffodils. |
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literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10607 | And she came out you know seeing who was going in | ||
literal | explain | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6136 | After Handsworth part of the press response was to blame the riot on rivalry between West Indians and Asians, and even after the arguments were criticized by local residents; and community leaders, they were used to β explain β' what happened. | The usage of β race β during the September-October 1985 period took on new meanings, which had little if anything to do with the impact of racism as such, since the emphasis was on the cultural characteristics of the minority communities themselves. | In addition, the question whether the cultures and values of the black communities, their family structures, and their political attitudes β bred violence β was constantly raised (van Dijk, 1988). |
metaphorical | support | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19701 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism, particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy. | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large, and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume, that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller, living reptiles. | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active, but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded. |
metaphorical | acquire | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.754 | Task analysis has not and cannot be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course. | The techniques just described are no more than guidelines in what remains the creative art of studying and describing what an experienced worker is doing or will be required to do. |
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literal | side | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18587 | The only problem was if β he corrected himself β when it came, which side turning, if any, would it use. | He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor. | The further away the better. |
metaphorical | popped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14516 | He sat back, pulled off his mask, and popped the sweet into his mouth. | ||
literal | find | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6570 | 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. | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source. | |
literal | cover | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4274 | 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 | liked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11763 | He would have liked very much to be alone. | If he had done the shock would have been less but on the other hand, his holiday would have been spoilt. | 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. |
literal | granted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9007 | The question is: granted that D's purpose was to frighten, did he nonetheless realize that it was practically certain that his act would cause death or grievous bodily harm to someone? | A defence of this kind, a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm, requires the full definition to be put to the jury. | The jury should answer this by drawing inferences from the evidence in the case and from the surrounding circumstances. |
literal | require | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16156 | The operator may deviate from the listed procedure because it may require excessive moving about or because he is interrupted by the requirements of other tasks. | Baker (1984) suggests that four kinds of shortcoming emerge when checklists are validated in the real situation. | Systematic use of a checklist often reveals faults in work design such as inadequate access, visibility and labelling. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20489 | Don't you think it's horrible round here? | ||
literal | sticks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19308 | They're all there but their their umbrellas and their walking sticks | No. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16805 | Mr Freeman said an appeal was β most unlikely, because we are not going to get any more evidence . β | ||
literal | occurs | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13755 | β In fact, a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who's had a baby . β | He had another glance at her notes. | |
literal | treated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21214 | This is not to suggest that motorists should be treated differently. | 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. | The point is rather that, even though knowingly taking risks with other people's lives is usually unjustifiable, taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death. |
literal | merge | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13180 | Joseph Chamberlain retained his preference for independence but allowed himself to be overruled by Austen and by the overwhelming wishes of the Liberal Unionist Council to merge. | The National Union was merged with Central Office in 1911 and fusion with the Liberal Unionists followed in 1912. | To cater for all susceptibilities, the party became the " National Unionist Association of Conservative and Unionist Associations " β a decision that allowed some local parties to go on calling themselves Conservative, but the name " Liberal " was at last dropped. |
literal | straightened | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19422 | He straightened up and came over, directing his question at Delaney. | ||
metaphorical | work | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22858 | In theory, validation meant that the user had read the specification, imagined how the system would work in practice, and agreed the design. | Traditionally, systems were validated by users agreeing functional specifications. | |
literal | covered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4299 | The supposedly jokey answers are illustrated by photographs of people sleeping outside covered by copies of The Independent: they look like some of the hundreds of visitors who come to St Botolph's Crypt Centre for homeless people every day. | β What do independent experts say about our 10 extra pages? β asks the advertisement. | |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8743 | It's like, what's it they've got? | ||
metaphorical | stopped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19394 | They never stopped being Germans. | But these two wanted to go home. | Maybe it's the only thing they ever dreamt about . β |
metaphorical | occupied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13717 | Or that my mind, which I consider intelligent and creative, is occupied only with sex, violence and car engines? | Am I, as a man, supposed to think that, if my body is hairy, it is β thick and bestial β? | Is this funny? |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12449 | We have made a bid of nearly Β£700m for a company with a book value of Β£200m β we've acknowledged there is some extra worth there, but I cannot see the sort of value they are talking about in property. | β I do not regard property profits as earnings. | If they can prove it is there, we might pay for it, β |
literal | yeah | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23098 | Yeah, but yeah I do say so! | ||
metaphorical | stopped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19397 | β I never heard of them, β the DDA stopped him. | ||
literal | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12369 | I made beans, when I'd finished sorting out this one I. | What did I do today? | Charlotte don't play with that lovey. |
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22368 | β I only want to know who slashed that picture if you didn't . β | β Of course not, you bastard, β Adam said. | |
literal | blush | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2152 | β With no trace of a smile or a blush the baroness quickly corrected herself β β an irrigation system β β but the slip was a telling one, and I'm sure they would have appreciated it in Bangladesh. | She went on to list her daughter's achievements: β She put in an irritation system β¦ | |
metaphorical | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7822 | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering β and at half-time, building on their win over Newbridge, it looked as if they would. | Nicholas was sympathetic: β He is only as good as the players we give him . β | They had weathered Bridgend's early fury, conceding a try before coming back with some confidence to score three of their own. |
metaphorical | assess | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1563 | The other side of press management, depending on informal contacts, is less easy to assess. | So in the supply of information to newspapers predisposed to support the party, much was achieved merely by employing a specialist. | In 1911 Steel-Maitland invited Blumenfeld of the Daily Express to Central Office for a two-way exchange of ideas and advice. |
literal | mind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13219 | I don't mind for about two three days | ||
metaphorical | hammering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9117 | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering β and at half-time, building on their win over Newbridge, it looked as if they would. | Nicholas was sympathetic: β He is only as good as the players we give him . β | They had weathered Bridgend's early fury, conceding a try before coming back with some confidence to score three of their own. |
metaphorical | bypassing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2574 | They came into the possession of my son Hilbert John Adam Verne-Smith under my uncle's will, bypassing myself, though my son was no more than nineteen at the time of my uncle's death. | β Wyvis Hall, Nunes, Suffolk, and the twenty acres of land surrounding it were the property, through his marriage, of my uncle, Hilbert Verne-Smith. | Being an undergraduate at the time, my son naturally never considered actually residing in the house. |
literal | appear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1208 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence. | The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time. | This is perhaps best illustrated with reference to earthquakes. |
literal | cost | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4242 | Even though this kind of action may cost a lot, I believe it to be money well and necessarily spent because the health of our economy and the health of our environment are totally dependent upon each other β¦. | We are spending Β£4 billion on cleansing the Mersey Basin alone, and the Thames now has the cleanest metropolitan estuary in the world. | The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development. |
literal | ensued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5762 | Hattersley had suggested that the riots were a β direct product β of high levels of youth unemployment, and a furious debate ensued in both Parliament and the media about this assertion. | Much of the subsequent controversy about this analysis centred on the question of youth unemployment. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5767 | Hence a suitable choice of will ensure that formula. | If we add to A the gradient of a scalar function, the resulting vector A' still gives the same magnetic field because [formula]. | So we are left with eqn (3.11). |
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9500 | β I'll help, Mrs Cranbrook, β Ruth agreed. | β They're not back then? β |
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literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11186 | β I still don't know if my family know where I am or if they will suffer from my decision. | Among those leaving was Cornelia, 22, a young East Berliner destined, she said, for West Berlin via a very circuitous route. | But I saw no other way out: I didn't know if I would ever have a chance again . β |
literal | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15215 | This is to be put into operation by concentrating on four themes: | Priority in the IGBP is intended to be given to those areas which deal with key interactions and significant changes on the time-scales of decades to centuries, that most affect the biosphere, that are most susceptible to human perturbations and those that will most likely lead to a practical, predictive capability for global change. | 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. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7434 | We don't get out much at the moment. | ||
literal | Used | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.573 | Used slave labour. | Built the factory right in the heart of the mountains. | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons, before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . β |
literal | kissed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10515 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms, so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her. | Of course he could look up Robin Tatian but where, really, would that get him? | She was almost asleep. |
literal | wondering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22811 | He saw a leg, uncomfortably wedged between sapling trees, swollen grotesquely, and gazed at it, stupidly, wondering if it was plastic. | Straightening up beside the dog, he looked where she was looking, and blinked. | 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. |
metaphorical | looks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12213 | β We have taken a step backward, β Ryan said β and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November. | As the Welsh squad do not meet again until 30 October, time has all but run out. |
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metaphorical | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19985 | The usual tactic was to march troops across the enemy's territory, plundering and looting; to take fortified places if the task was easy; to obtain allies among the lords of the locality; and to retreat without fighting a battle if at all possible β in effect an application to a wider canvas of the some technique of warfare which had earlier made castellans formidable in the immediate environs of their castles. | The pattern caused problems, in that the circumstances which might trigger off renewed fighting were unpredictable; yet the moment an opportunity offered, princes had to be prepared for invading their enemies; there was no time for lengthy preparation. | It necessitated the rapid mobilization of auxiliaries to join a core of highly-trained troops kept constantly, at the ready β the princes' military households, which became the linch pin of the system. |
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52,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14951 | As for the private sector, while BT may be happy to provide pump priming for five telecottages in the north of Scotland, it is not about to bankroll a nationwide network. | Nor, it seems, is anyone else. |
|
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17690 | It was nice to see Stratford. | Mm. | I wonder if that they filmed that at the time when the boat was in Stratford. |
literal | include | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
36
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9826 | Even so, the All Blacks, who include seven capped players, will give today's opponents due respect. | 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. |
|
metaphorical | Risking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.410 | Risking the dismay of circuit engineers some theoreticians do, in fact, refer to eqn (3.35) as Ohm's law. | The essential thing is that the relation [formula] is equivalent to Ohm's law. | |
literal | developing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
74,
84
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5008 | In addition to these data requirements, such users are also interested in developing their capabilities for modelling the changing relationships between the supply and demand for infrastructure in the context of both public and private sector decision-making. | According to Shepherd these users share a common need for up-to-date information on the amount, capacity and condition of urban land, transport networks, utilities, hospitals, schools and other major communal facilities. | |
literal | packing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14008 | Cos you're packing up. | Yeah. | |
literal | hope | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9595 | Latecomers who continue to hope | ||
metaphorical | worry | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
56
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22981 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried? | She was almost asleep. | Was his whole life affected by what had happened at Ecalpemos? |
metaphorical | pitching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
73,
81
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14305 | β I am the centre of my existence, β Clare sang, as if chanting a psalm, pitching her voice an octave lower, as she pushed Josh to her playgroup the next morning. | ||
literal | ensure | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
84,
90
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5780 | There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content. | The International Ergonomics Association developed a general ergonomics checklist which is reproduced in Edholm (1967). | The context is, of course, the context of ergonomics as conceived by the designers of the list. |
metaphorical | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
58,
61
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15228 | When Austen sat down Chaplin suggested that he had better put the question at once and on getting an affirmative shout did so. | Austen followed. | A clever way of stifling discussion and few could have done it so well. |
literal | thanked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20452 | McLeish thanked him gravely, feeling, as he often did with the Wilsons, that he was being enveloped in a large feather eiderdown, and, made restless by the call, went down the corridor to where he knew Catherine Crane was also in, getting her office in order. | He stopped at the door and smiled at her. |
|
literal | treat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21200 | The All Blacks would treat such an outmoded approach with the scorn it deserves, although on the other hand they might have been impressed with Bridgend's contrasting mobility and aggression. | The back row were swifter to the loose ball, had a clearer idea of what to do with it when they got there, and their impressive half-backs were given every opportunity β which they eagerly took β to control the game. |
|
literal | returning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
54
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16337 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered. | Had she not been so downhearted Ruth would have enjoyed herself. | |
literal | comprises | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
250,
259
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3757 | Kessell (1988) describes a PC-based GIS called PREPLAN (PRistine Environment Planning LANguage) which is a natural area management, land-use planning and fire modelling system developed for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, PREPLAN comprises four modules: a simple raster-based GIS; a grid cell resource database; a wide range of vegetation, fuel, fire behaviour, erosion and land-use models; tabular, statistical and colour graphics output system. | In dry parts of the world, such as Australia, forest and bush fires are an important natural hazard and some attention has been given to the ways in which GIS might help examine their potential impacts. | With this system real-time fire growth can be modelled, taking into account changes in terrain, fuel and temporal changes in the weather. |
literal | watching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22489 | You also grew up watching Grandfather's clients literally get away with murder . β | You think you can push me around because you've been doing that since we were in the nursery. | He sucked on his cigarette, furiously threw it into the fireplace, shoved his hands in his pockets, and glared at Adam. |
literal | amused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1137 | β Get off this boat, β I told him, but my anger only amused Sweetman who unfolded his long thin legs from the cushioned thwart. | ||
metaphorical | show | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
19,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18470 | Many distributions show a peak in a particular age group mainly associated with taking on a large number of young people when the organisation was started or reorganised, this is not desirable because it leads to excessive competition for promotion at particular stages. | It also makes for regular changes as staff retire and are replaced. | These comments are obviously most relevant for work forces where there is little tendency to move out, this is characteristic of a surprisingly large number of organisations in European countries and in Japan but much less so in the U.S.A. |
metaphorical | work | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22830 | And that can work to your favour because if ever you have a problem, then you know. | ||
metaphorical | sought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
109,
115
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18884 | Robin Cook, a member of the national executive and the health spokesman, said that a Labour government which sought to force its programme on an unwilling nation would be unsocialist. | ||
metaphorical | hang | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
269,
273
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9157 | Allan Ahlberg says: β In the past, a lot of children's books seemed to be the work of talented illustrators whose pictures looked brilliant framed in a gallery, but when you tried to read the book, there was nothing there, because the words started as a coat-hanger to hang pictures on . β | They see themselves not as author and illustrator, with separate roles, but as a partnership of β book-makers β, contributing equally to the process. | |
metaphorical | displayed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
131,
140
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5192 | The unclothed body is not a β self but a socialised body, a body that is opened by instruments, technologized, wounded, its organs displayed to the outside world. | The β inner β Frida is controlled by modern society far more than the clothed Frida, who often marks her deviation from the norm by defiantly returning the gaze of the viewer. |
|
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3478 | Some of the schemes they come up with. | Christ! | Get your blood going. |
metaphorical | cringing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4370 | will sit there cringing, said I can't believe they put this rubbish on terrible. | I haven't watched Top of the Pops. | |
literal | proceed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
108,
115
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14761 | It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed. | Greenberg (1983) and a collection of papers in Greenberg (1987) review some of the literature on environmental epidemiology. | One is to collect morbidity and mortality data (usually the latter is more widely available, though the former more useful) and to examine spatial distributions for clustering. |
literal | wondered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
34,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22799 | At times, she was downhearted and wondered whether she would ever write another book. | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word, or name, and then became impatient with herself; she was often frustrated because she couldn't move as swiftly as she did before. | β When you want to write, you'll write, β Buzz would tell her then. |
metaphorical | extended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6207 | The scope was extended in an β enhanced β Urban Programme, which included economic and environmental as well as social projects, and was specifically directed at the inner urban areas where the problems were most severe. | Originally, the Programme supplemented existing central and local government schemes designed to meet special needs in urban areas. | Earlier, the change of emphasis from a β social β to an β economic and environmental β focus had been reflected in a switch of responsibility for the Programme from the Home Office to the Department of the Environment. |
literal | failed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6293 | So he had not failed her after all! | With Mrs Cranbrook's words Ruth's appetite immediately returned. | How could she have thought that he would? |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10687 | He would know more, much more, in the days to come. | Those were the facts, as far as he knew them up to this moment. | What was certain was that he could no longer use the escape key. |
metaphorical | work | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
136,
140
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22828 | And he said I was completely confused and I couldn't, he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and, er, you know my mouth wouldn't work, he said, but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital. | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy, he said, and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed. | And they were saying, they were saying that, you know, you associate strokes with older people, but there's a hundred young people a week have strokes! |
metaphorical | felt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6495 | He had felt, perhaps, briefly, the power of the survivor. | He had himself been rising thirty-seven and when The Yellow Chair was put on had passed that age, was older now than Van Gogh, as he had, in the 1940s, realised that he was older than Keats. | What nonsense. |
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