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metaphorical | reversing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
218,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16364 | No great skill or intellectual effort is required, which is one way of saying that the human operator is being under-used, but the purpose of a routine is usually to avoid common human error such as omitting a step or reversing steps. | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction. | In general the value of formal routines is precisely that the operator, left to himself, will not normally function in such a systematic sequential manner. |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
56,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17277 | He had virtually no bite, as he had once overheard Adam say to Bridget, and heard it with helpless chagrin. | Lewis's bark, anyway, was always worse than his bite. | |
metaphorical | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
110,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22563 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to β have a go β and the placement went ahead. | She fought hard to get him a part-time playgroup place in the group his older brother attended. | She commented: |
literal | taken | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
174,
179
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20067 | To stimulate the development and the application within the agency of techniques of environmental modelling and forecasting in order that adequate preventative action can be taken at the appropriate time; | ||
literal | succeeded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
10,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19550 | Again Law succeeded by unorthodoxy; he was quick to grasp the essentials of an opponent's argument and quite prepared to be rude or direct if the situation demanded it. | In debate he was a formidable opponent, and one that Asquith was never able to master, for all his forensic skills. | In the long debates over Marconi in 1913 and over the Curragh " mutiny " in 1914 Law was able to nail Asquith's evasions where a more polished stylist might have been foiled. |
metaphorical | manage | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12713 | I don't know how she could manage the stairs | ||
literal | tour | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
121,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21138 | The core of the problem is simple: the National was invited to New York only last November, and the Kirov is planning to tour this summer. | The management of the Kirov, that other opera house in St Petersburg, are furious. | Both are presenting the great Russian warhorses, Boris Godunov and The Queen of Spades. |
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20309 | I'll tell you who you ought to fall in love with, Clare . β | You need a secure situation with someone you can trust, who you know will stick around because he loves you. | |
literal | receive | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
248,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15551 | Only then will two vitally important and complementary goals be achieved: to improve Britain's general educational and vocational competence, and hence our productive capacity; and to reduce our gross educational inequalities between the elite who receive a narrow education to a very high standard, and the rest. | Employers must be required to release 16-18-year-olds for education and training for at least two days per week. | |
literal | need | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13449 | Even with PAC data some assumptions would need to be made about numbers of persons per household if good population estimates were to be made. | A useful research exercise would be to compare the use of census and PAC data in deriving quantitative risk assessments and this is an interesting research problem. | |
literal | watch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
49,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22448 | I'm not allowed to Wednesdays cos your mum don't watch it on a Wednesday! | ||
literal | Watch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.594 | Watch! | ||
metaphorical | reflect | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15740 | Labour law will always reflect the balance of power in society, and a fully fledged labour court system will not remove class and fundamental employer-employee differences. | Second, it would ensure that workers enjoyed positive rights under law and reduce the emphasis of union immunities. | But it should be possible to create and enforce enough common rules to prevent the absurd see-sawing of industrial relations legislation we have seen since 1969. |
literal | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20143 | Some of the reasons for this β the difficulty of deciding on appropriate proxy variables and on economical yet non-biasing temporal and spatial sampling frameworks, taking account of the relative importance of aperiodic and rare events as compared to near-continuous processes, processing the vast volumes of data usually involved and organizing the multidisciplinary and (often) multinational researchers involved β are discussed briefly later. | Notwithstanding Mrs Thatcher's confidence that we can β fix β environmental problems, the difficulties associated with a task even as apparently simple as monitoring a state variable are considerable. | Even at this stage, however, it is important to stress that we have a very incomplete understanding of many processes in the natural environment. |
literal | getting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
104,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7534 | Fraser dealt with this problem without difficulty and explained to Law in 1913 that " the importance of getting important speeches in advance is shown in concrete manner by your Wallsend speech on October 29th. | In many quarters it is asserted that the Unionist Press are treated with greater courtesy by the Radicals than by their own side . " | The verbatim reports reached most of the newspapers in places such as Aberdeen at one o " clock in the morning of the 30th . " |
metaphorical | sees | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18094 | But once the user sees the potential of the system, a change in attitude takes place. | Initially the analyst does all the work, leading the user towards a system he thinks is right for the business. | The process becomes demand driven by the user. |
literal | offered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13777 | He scrubbed at his face with the handkerchief she offered and gulped for air. | She's just lying there, but she is dead . β | |
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11589 | If you let him know. | Yeah if you let it, I mean you know he's fair like that. | |
metaphorical | set | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18265 | No general election was fought by the organization set up after 1911, but there is little doubt that there was a massive improvement; criticisms that were commonplace in 1910 were not to be heard by 1913. | Party organization provided the easiest advances because it was the only area entirely under the party's control. | The space available to Central Office was increased by the acquisition of St Stephen's House as well as St Stephen's Chambers, which had been occupied since 1874; the new office cost $3,000 a year in rent alone. |
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7276 | Don't think you can get away with it just because you've always got away with everything, since you set that nursemaid's apron alight . β | So for God's sake, pay up, you stupid shit! | |
literal | impose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9776 | We would eventually like to do it along with the management, within the philosophy we will impose . β | It is difficult to decide when you are an outsider what the business is like. | |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8855 | Well my mum got it for | ||
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21624 | The authors examine both near-surface sites and deep repositories (which use more restricted population criteria and allow offshore locations to enter). | Conceptually, what is offered is little more than an automated β sieve mapping β that land-use planners have used for many years, but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software. | Data layers include geological maps, conservation areas, transport routes, petrochemical facilities and demographic data. |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17785 | Well at least he can have a word with him about it and see what and he can do, and then you go to and see what they can do. | ||
literal | won | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22786 | When they saw that the war could not be won, even as early as 1941, some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . β | They didn't disagree with his aims, only his methods. | |
literal | Shall | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.452 | Shall we start? | ||
metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3394 | He knew about the light shining in darkness, and had come, for reasons completely different from Alexander's desire for exactness, specificity, to mistrust figurative language. | Daniel was used to such language; it was his daily, or anyway weekly, pabulum. | He never now made a sermon from a metaphor, nor drew analogies: he preached examples, cases, lessons. |
literal | writing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23042 | 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 | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17276 | He expected his father to rise and say something about that being no way to speak to one's wife or not in front of the child, he was capable of that. | But he had said nothing, only looked subdued, and Adam realized why. |
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metaphorical | operating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13880 | They were, however, an all-White group, operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community. | The Community Health Team aim was to ensure a place of treatment for children from the earliest possible age, to enable them to develop to their fullest potential. | They gave support to the Beacon and Elfreda Rathbone nurseries and most members saw these settings as the best places to β treat β children. |
literal | riding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16395 | When she reached the plateau she remained standing, watching for Joss Barnet, waiting for the moment when she would see him riding towards her. | There was no longer any need for her to be |
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literal | thank | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20454 | β Dear sweet Lord above, I do thank Thee for Thy kindness in showing me this lovely woman before I died . β | He kissed the air a fastidiously polite inch above her knuckles, then closed his eyes. | To my astonishment and chagrin Ellen left her hand in his as he opened his eyes and smiled at her. |
literal | describes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4842 | He describes the features of the four main systems that are currently in use in the UK and illustrates their application with reference to examples drawn from retail analysis and store location, market research, credit rating and target marketing. | In Chapter 12 Brown reviews the development of geodemographics from its origins in the computer-based social area analysis of US census tract data from 1950 onwards. | Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live. |
literal | give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7660 | In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field. | The discussion of operational problems and prospects further amplifies many of the issues raised in preceding chapters, particularly with respect to the problems caused by the dependency on secondary data sources and the need for much more detailed geographic information to overcome some of the problems associated with linking data sets. |
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metaphorical | dictate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
28,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5029 | The mood of the garden will dictate its eventual style. | It may be clipped classical, random cottage, modern high-tech, or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium, that no one has ever imagined before, but which exists in your head and wants to get out. |
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literal | phoned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14244 | β I phoned and said, β Where's the money? β and was told there were problems with the book-keeper, who would be coming in to sort it out, β says Debbie. | But July also passed without Debbie receiving any money. | β But nothing happened and I never heard from them . β |
metaphorical | consider | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3907 | A glossary of terms and acronyms used can be very helpful not only to the reader but also to the writer who is forced to consider carefully how he is using various technical terms. | A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses. | Finally, all manuals should end with an index which supplements the table of contents at the beginning. |
literal | split | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19019 | The Central Electricity Generating Board (now privatized and split into two companies) is funding a large-scale, 2-year project to assess links to childhood cancer, while another recently announced study aims to look at links to sudden infant death. | A good bibliography is provided in Perry and Pearl (1988). | One obvious problem, with implications for any GIS input, is that the effects are highly localized, with little measurable field effect more than a few dozen metres away from the route centre-lines. |
metaphorical | balanced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1762 | The Elle feature transposed the β Kahlo style β to Kahlo lookalikes in contemporary clothing balanced around segments of Herrera's biography of the artist. | It is primarily her appearance, not the formal language of her art, that has graced the pages of Elle and Vogue magazines. | In the later Vogue piece only the style remained as the far more overtly sexual, Kahloesque models lounged and pouted in their β Mexican β interiors. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10602 | And I went down, I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to, I said to Robert now you know those shirts, that shirt I bought you for Christmas? | And he said yeah I said I could've got two for the price of one. |
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literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10945 | Well not you know cleaning so I don't know what kind of work they do. | ||
literal | argue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1303 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors, such as distaste for the defendant's background, allegiance, or other activities. | Admittedly, the Model Penal Code does contain a list of circumstances which may amount to extreme indifference, which assists the courts and increases the predictability of verdicts in a way that Scots law does not, but the essence of both approaches is that there is no precise way of describing those non-intentional killings which are as heinous as intentional killings. | |
literal | agreed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.978 | The painting was agreed to by Luce in part to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend. | 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. | Having lent Hale money to pay her rent she had been angered to discover her spending enormous sums on an haute-couture dress, and refused to turn up to not PRP but AVP + PRP; phrasal=[turn up] what, in retrospect, became Hale's farewell party. |
metaphorical | dreamed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5348 | It was an excitement that matched my own, for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny, magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe. | After that we would go to Tahiti, and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true. | By the time we had drunk our third bottle of wine Ellen and I had long reached New Zealand and were already sailing north towards New Caledonia. |
metaphorical | took | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21080 | The majority of rioters who took part in these unhappy events were young, black and Afro-Caribbean origin. | Let there be no doubt, these young criminals are not in any way representative of the vast majority of the Afro-Caribbean community whose life has contributed to the life and culture of the West Midlands over many years and whose hopes and aspirations are at one with those of every other law-abiding citizen. |
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literal | succeed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19547 | If I succeed it will unlock a lot of the mystery of what's been done on Titron. | Quietly. | And β¦ β |
metaphorical | reduce | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15671 | In a study of nearly 500 women, they found that zinc supplements did not improve either foetal health or reduce the number of pre-term labours. | Doctors in Bristol decided to test the theory. | |
metaphorical | suffer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19572 | At the same time, the residents of the poorest areas have to suffer, in a way that is not true of those who live elsewhere, a growing fear of attack on themselves or their property. | They are more likely to be stopped and searched, and to be the victim of mistaken arrest or conviction. | Improved police methods might help, writes Harrison, to contain the problem. |
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22547 | An important finding was that many relied on their own transport and went to stay with friends and relatives some distance away, rather than relying on the 19 official evacuation reception centres. | This led to the evacuation of 250 000 people which, although staggered over several days, led to great pressure on transport arteries. | Despite this, the evacuation was successful, partly because the accident occurred at a weekend and the immediately affected area was sparsely populated. |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12891 | I mean I think er, when your blood pressure was found out and you'd been taking tablets ever, so, I think it's kept it all under control and you've, you, we eat a sensible diet. | Ah well I, well, laugh I wouldn't say that really Gordon. | The only, the only er thing I complained about with you is, is the butter. |
metaphorical | sort | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18859 | I did manage to sort out the food for tomorrow and | Yes please cup of tea are making it then? good! | |
literal | became | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1847 | Finally, Malcolm Fraser, ex-editor of the Standard and of the Daily Express became first honorary press adviser and subsequently was employed to run the press bureau at the colossal salary of Β£1,200. | The party was indeed handed over to Birmingham. | Steel-Maitland, Boraston, Jenkins and Fraser made up a team of experts, all of sufficient status to deal with politicians who might call into the office; the work of the office was departmentalized for the first time and the heads of department brought together into a supervising board. |
literal | preferred | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14614 | He told Frederica he preferred his androgynes to be more obscured, more veiled, more suggested, and directed her attention to " Still-Life, Fete Gloanec 1888 " in which various inanimate objects, two ripe pears, a dense bunch of flowers, swam across a bright red table-top rimmed with a black ellipse. | He was unmoved, though the colours were rich and strange. | The picture was signed " Madeleine Bernard ", and Alexander told Frederica that Gauguin had flirted seriously with that young woman, had characterised her, as was fashionable at the time, as having the desirable, unattainable androgynous perfection, complete sensuality combined with unattainable self-sufficiency. |
literal | feels | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6437 | Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time? | β Do you want to be found washed up on the seashore with a few vital bits missing? | Do you want to be slowly battered to death, before dying in agony? β |
literal | live | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11928 | β A duke can live comfortably in a castle, after all β, the architect Cedric Price is quoted as saying. | Or would a simple injection of resources transform Kafkaesque honeycombs into happy living-spaces, with a consequent decline in inner-city ills? | β You and I would die of frostbite. |
literal | renewed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16055 | 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. | 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. |
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metaphorical | misjudged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13242 | Had she misjudged the time? | Or was she earlier than she thought? | No matter. |
metaphorical | managed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12732 | Though there was a lot to do, Clare, busy redecorating the shop and visiting wholesalers to buy stock, still managed to work one evening a week for the Movement. | Two weeks later, Clare bought the short lease of a small shop in the Pimlico Road, close to Mrs Gooden's home. | |
literal | added | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.826 | I have no doubt that others will be added. | However, Caithness himself stated that this first selection was β in no way a definitive list β¦ | The important thing is that the Thirty Year Rule is in force and that we can respond to developing perceptions of our times . β |
literal | urged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21586 | The party officers and Whips were solidly behind Chamberlain, but Law drew off some of his support among tariff reformers and, urged on by Edward Goulding and Max Aitken, he refused to withdraw unless his continued candidature would allow Long to win. | Carson thereupon fell out of the contest β or rather announced that he was not standing, for no official nominations had been made. | Against Chamberlain it was remembered that he was a Liberal Unionist (as was Lansdowne, who led the Unionists in the Lords) and that he had not been entirely loyal to Balfour since the referendum pledge. |
metaphorical | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18017 | But responses in 1985 were different, at least in terms of degree, and probably in relation to the extent to which the riots were seen as a β race β phenomenon by a wider body of opinion. | There are many continuities between 1980β1 and 1985 in relation to the common-sense images used in the press and television to cover the events. | The ambiguities and sub-clauses to be found in much of the press coverage during 1980β1 had at least acted as a countervailing tendency against the more extreme forms of discourse which blamed the riots completely on black people. |
literal | sued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19570 | In December 1991 she sued. | 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). | |
literal | committed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3681 | They were, however, an all-White group, operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community. | The Community Health Team aim was to ensure a place of treatment for children from the earliest possible age, to enable them to develop to their fullest potential. | They gave support to the Beacon and Elfreda Rathbone nurseries and most members saw these settings as the best places to β treat β children. |
literal | funded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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171
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7101 | Between 1982 and 1988 provision gradually increased, so that by 1988 there were 12 children's day centres, about 70 playgroups and 350 assisted child-minding places funded partially or totally by the Social Services Department, and 1,075 full-time and 824 part-time places in nursery schools funded by the Inner London Education Authority. | In 1982, 44 per cent of under fives in Islington had the use of an under -fives facility, 29 per cent on a full-time and 15 per cent on a part-time basis. | |
literal | slaughtered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
86,
97
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18708 | As princes saw it, it was a just war in the fullest sense of the term; those who were slaughtered in its battles were regarded as among the martyrs of the church. | The war, declared by one whose moral authority was unimpeachable, was to free the Eastern churches, to end Muslim guardianship of the holy places, to restore Jerusalem to its proper state. | When Raymond of Toulouse, Robert II of Flanders, Robert Curthose, Stephen of Blois, and Hugh of Vermandois responded to the call, past and present members of their military households fell almost automatically into rank behind them, to test themselves against terrible dangers, but also to enjoy the companionship in arms, the adventure, the deeds of daring which were the stuff of the chansons de geste. |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12433 | The thousands of tons of steel made real communication impossible. | The radio on the dummy suddenly screeched into action as Delaney's distorted voice gave it life. | His own radio was off. |
literal | depending | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
74,
83
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4740 | We are then left with only one equation formula] or formula] or formula], depending on our preference. | Thus we may safely ignore the magnetic field when determining the lines of current flow. | Eqn (3.38) tells us that there is some analogy (see Example 3.3) with the electrostatic case treated in Chapter 2. |
literal | means | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
45
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13072 | The Vapour Corporation Power pop, which means don't expect to leave with your eardrums intact. | Cricketers, Kennington Oval (735 3059) 8pm Β£3. |
|
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8778 | Oh, you've got the! | ||
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
60,
64
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11741 | 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 | integrated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
58,
68
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10095 | The third section looks at the faltering progress towards integrated services. | The next section describes attempts to create a clear under -fives policy. | The fourth section examines the formidable barriers that were posed by reorganisation of social services, local authority cuts and the demise of the Inner London Education Authority. |
literal | filmed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
35,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6560 | The classic western TV series were filmed in back-lots, or in the semi-desert 20 miles from Los Angeles. | Westerns are no longer a cheap option. | Modern audiences no longer accept plastic bushes, and the southern Californian suburban sprawl means the production companies have to take their horses and cows to locations far away in Arizona or Montana. |
literal | eat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5530 | May be I will eat only half of it. | I just want it no no I'd like that small one. | I'm not eating whole of it. |
literal | buy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
33,
36
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2570 | β That's fine on the food β I'll buy the drinks, I'm too old to get used to women buying my drinks . β | McLeish considered. | |
literal | provide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
161,
168
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14973 | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants (Social Need) Act, which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing, education, and health. | It was initiated partly in response to the furore caused by Enoch Powell's 1969 β rivers of blood β speech, much as disturbances at the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival prompted further steps on the part of the Department of the Environment β β A riot makes a much bigger impact on government thinking β, as Donnison (1987) has pointed out, β than any amount of earnest and accurate research β. | Originally, the Programme supplemented existing central and local government schemes designed to meet special needs in urban areas. |
literal | According | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7 | According to unofficial reports, the arrangement was designed by the West German Foreign Minister, Hans Dietrich Genscher, the new Polish foreign minister, Krzystof Skubiszewski, and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who met recently at the United Nations in New York. | ||
literal | fall | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
36
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6322 | We had centuries of contacts to fall back on. | β You weren't Europeans. | For all their bravery and resourcefulness, their information was often wasted, because Stalin didn't believe them. |
metaphorical | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
87,
92
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7730 | Broadly, the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement, and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice. | Parents wanted to be part of the decision-making and did not feel that they were. |
|
literal | wants | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22339 | She wants to take over | ||
literal | whistled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
88
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22680 | In the high-ceilinged kitchen, surrounded by the smells of mint and basil, Buzz whistled β Roses of Picardy β with much dramatic warbling as she prepared Elinor's tea. | Leaves and yellow blossoms obscured the top of the window, while the bottom was covered by aggressive pink hollyhocks, seemingly determined to fight their way inside. |
|
literal | treat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
123,
128
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21202 | They gave support to the Beacon and Elfreda Rathbone nurseries and most members saw these settings as the best places to β treat β children. | They were, however, an all-White group, operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community. | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision. |
metaphorical | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
208,
212
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9376 | A central objective of the post-war welfare state was, indeed, to alleviate the problems of the urban poor, over whom Beveridge's Five Giants (Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness) had for so long held sway. | In the early 1940s and 1950s, the belief was widely held that a combination of government intervention β in the form of town planning, housing and health programmes, and the provision of social security β and permanent male full employment, together with an increase in real wages, would reduce suffering due to poverty to manageable proportions. |
|
literal | lead | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
268,
272
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11312 | It is, however, impossible to separate out processes acting at different scales and over different periods: a single volcanic eruption lasting hours or days sometimes leads to dust and gas being ejected into the atmosphere over a period of months and this in turn may lead to global climatic fluctuations over years or decades. | In this chapter, the primary concern is with changes occurring over time spans from minutes to centuries and from spatial wavelengths from about 1 m to about 100 km. | Conversely, a large-scale and long-period phenomenon such as the movement of tectonic plates can lead to local stress accumulation and to its release by an earthquake in a few seconds and with highly local effects. |
literal | elaborated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
121,
131
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5567 | There are important analytical problems to be addressed concerning the siting of such monitoring equipment and these are elaborated on later. | Given very wide regional and local variations in deposition, questions must be raised about the effectiveness of such a small network; local authorities will need to supplement it with their own networks. | |
literal | says | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17462 | We were lucky, β says Debbie Adams. | β They hadn't paid the interest and court fees, but we got back every single penny they owed. | |
literal | weeping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
192,
199
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22526 | Kahlo's naked body becomes not just the tortured self of her personal biography but a visual counterpart to the injured and defiled manifestations of Mexico's colonised past: La Llorona β the weeping woman β of popular myth and La Chingada, the raped and abused mother described in Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude. | Descended from an Aztec mother goddess, Llorona is a long-suffering mother figure, symbolic in a wider sense of the trauma of the Spanish invasion. |
|
metaphorical | alienated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
67,
76
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1031 | Hale's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer, a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture. | In Kahlo's painting, the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street, literally coming down to earth. | The horizontality of her fallen body is juxtaposed to the vertical thrust of the apartment building. |
literal | bought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2251 | No, well you know I bought | ||
literal | born | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
33,
37
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2193 | George Armstrong Edoardo Amaldi, born Carpaneto Piacentino September 5, 1908; died Rome, December 5, 1989. | ||
metaphorical | leads | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
204,
209
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11345 | 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. |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
33,
38
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8335 | One never quite knew what he was going to say next. | He always felt that effective musical criticism began by being well written, and he never lost his liveliness. | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music, a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time. |
metaphorical | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
204,
208
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9416 | Thus stated, there is no reference to the defendant's intention or awareness of the risks: the fact that D has chosen to commit rape, robbery, or another serious offence, and has caused death thereby, is held to constitute sufficient moral grounds for placing the killing in the highest category. | A fourth approach, adopted by English law until 1957 and still in force in many American jurisdictions, is some form of felony-murder rule: anyone who kills during the course of a felony (or, more restrictively, a serious crime of violence) or whilst resisting arrest should be convicted of murder. | Plainly, this is a form of constructive criminal liability: the murder conviction is constructed out of the ingredients of a lesser offence. |
metaphorical | drum | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
40
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5469 | He gave him a hand with a large oil drum, and then another, as Nell, tearing herself from her appointed task, dragged over a bench. | Lawton had already shifted some chairs, in readiness to form a barricade. | |
metaphorical | caught | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2917 | His attention was also caught by a woman dressed in midnight-blue satin and diamonds; the sister of a Middle-Eastern ruler, she was known as an audacious gambler. | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers, most of them Greek, move towards the baccarat room, where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour. | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive, boneless saunter: he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room. |
literal | asking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
68,
74
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1530 | thing is that you know we were at we, actually we got lost and were asking directions. | People people were running away from two lexical units; [run away]=phrasal verb you. |
|
literal | assessed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
131,
139
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1565 | Pearce et al. (1989) have argued that the effects of government, commercial and other actions on the environment can and should be assessed on a cost/benefit basis and this seems likely to be the basis on which at least the UK government will proceed. | Given such a lead, it is scarcely surprising that British scientists have sought to demonstrate the practical and financial consequences of environmental events and processes; Table 9.1, for example illustrates their perception of the importance of global environmental research to the UK domestic economy. |
|
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20322 | Please, I've found something, I must tell you. | β I'm sorry. | |
metaphorical | Take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
4
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.504 | Take fifty three. | ||
metaphorical | pursued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
157,
164
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15108 | Ideally one could construct a model of the fossil to test out these various functions in experiments, but the number of examples where the analysis has been pursued this far are limited. | Most animals today do seem to have bodies that accord well with the functions they have to carry out to survive: flyers are aerodynamically efficient, active swimmers have suitable streamlining, herbivorous mammals have teeth appropriate for grinding plant food, and so on. | 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 | became | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
10,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1845 | Car theft became so common that private cars virtually disappeared from the area. | Joyriders used front lawns to practise their handbrake turns. | Shops like greengrocers and chippies, with pitiful cash takings, were routinely subjected to armed robberies with shotguns, balaclavas β the whole bit. |
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