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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3536 | come to tell you | ||
metaphorical | discusses | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5153 | Brown's chapter on geodemographics discusses an application field where primary data collected for operational purposes are typically evaluated in relation to secondary data derived from sources such as the Census of Population. | The range of data sets involved and the demands that are made on GIS technology in applications of this kind are often more limited than those of previous applications fields. |
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metaphorical | matched | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12816 | There were daunting moments in last night's First Tuesday (Yorkshire), but few of them matched that hint of a jackboot under the blue serge. | ||
literal | presiding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14695 | The work of Peter Townsend and others showed that, far from presiding over the elimination of poverty, the Wilson Government actually failed to prevent some of its features from worsening (Townsend and Bosanquet, 1972). | Disillusion swiftly followed. | Evidence began to mount that much of the social welfare paternalism of the post-war period had created almost as many problems as it solved. |
literal | attended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1696 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, exchanged a symbolic kiss of peace with Pope John Paul II yesterday at a mass attended by thousands in St Peter's Square, Rome. | ||
literal | measured | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13126 | Shah (1983) made a comprehensive investigation of natural disaster reports for the period 1974β80 and concluded that both disaster frequency and magnitude (measured in terms of lives lost) are increasing. | In 1970, for example, more than 200 000 people died in the cyclone and flooding of Bangladesh and in 1979 the hurricanes David and Frederick caused more than $3bn damage in the USA. | High death tolls are still a characteristic of less developed, low-income countries. |
literal | remember | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15958 | Do you remember? | ||
literal | appoint | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1261 | When a vacancy arose within this group of social workers in 1983 it was decided to appoint someone specialising in work with under fives with special needs. | This might have had the effect of drawing families into the specialist system at an earlier stage. |
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metaphorical | lay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11294 | The families of North Tynedale in westernmost Northumberland β Charltons and Robsons, Milburns and Dodds β were never slow to lay hands on each other's property in the lawless old days. | Here, where the Scottish border ran across the Cheviot Hills, far from civilisation, β reiving β, or cattle-thieving, was a way of life. |
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literal | staying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19274 | You're not going anywhere, you're staying here | ||
literal | bought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2244 | He bought himself er a padded shirt, you know? | ||
literal | owing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13998 | Thus the conclusion is that, owing to the repulsive forces between the electrons, a cylindrical electron beam is unstable. | It may be seen from the above equation that the magnetic force is negligible in comparison with the electric force unless the velocity of the electron approaches the velocity of light. | Using a technical term borrowed from electron optics we could say that the electron beam gets defocused. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10939 | Well I've got to know, cos sort of adult as well, I mean you included as I mean it's to put | ||
literal | born | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2197 | Hill expresses the way time has cheated them: his daughter was born while he was remanded in custody, and is now 14: β She would change dramatically and I didn't feel a change in myself mentally. | I'm still 20 in my head. |
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literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7362 | Mr Dobbs, who is chairman of Telecottages UK, warns possible users not to get bogged down with the technology: β The equipment is a tool to overcome what needs to be done. | People mustn't think that because there's a computer, they've got to think of a use for it . β |
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metaphorical | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8255 | Before going on, just a few words about the classification of steady currents. | It may be roughly divided into two parts: magnetostatics and the rest. |
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literal | argue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1292 | How, they argue, would Alice, or The Wind in the Willows, stand up against such scrutiny? | But the Ahlbergs have no time for literal interpretations of their work. | The way to look at Bye Bye Baby, they insist, is as a β light, surreal comedy β. |
literal | arranged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1367 | This fossil bark is typified by its lozenge-shaped leaf scars arranged in spiral rows. | The plant material itself is converted to black carbon. | This fragment is 1O cm long. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16919 | Well having said that Gordon, your mother lived to a good old age, and my mum, and my father did. | ||
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20766 | How could she have thought that he would? | So he had not failed her after all! | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened, since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon, and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her. |
literal | learned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11382 | What he has learned from Goldsmith (β the only genius I have ever come across β) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation. | β The concept of the company does not interest me - it's the businesses that are important. |
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literal | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20113 | β So why should the English guy take off with the girl? β | The DDI changed the subject. |
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literal | used | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21698 | Much of his leadership was thus a form of pragmatic extremism, extreme action and the threat of more extreme action to come, but used in the cause of more limited objectives. | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot, when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots. | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed, but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion, a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end. |
literal | welcomed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22539 | The crowds of Burgundians who accompanied the king learned to respect him; on their return, they sought the arbitration of the royal court in their disputes, and they welcomed Louis's intervention within the counties that fringed the duchy of Burgundy. | His friendship with Raymond V of Toulouse, a fellow warrior, reversed the trend of history since the middle of the tenth century, in bringing the princes of the far south back into the king's mouvance. | As William of St Denis put it, |
literal | walk | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21960 | I stay in the car cos er I don't want to walk, too cold | ||
literal | accommodating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.661 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was, and standing aside to motion him in she said: β It's good of you to be so accommodating, Mr Dalgliesh. | He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother, although she looked the elder by some years. | I'm afraid Nora Gurney is implacable. |
metaphorical | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20276 | But if the diameter of the beam is reduced, eqns (3.33) and (3.34) tell us that the forces are even larger. | In that case both of them will move inwards under the effect of magnetic force. | What happens then? |
literal | urging | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21589 | The Independent has learnt that 1,800 American Roman Catholic nuns wrote last winter to Dr Runcie, urging him to defy the Pope over the ordination of women. | Sister Margaret Traxler, of the National Coalition of American Nuns, said that she had told Dr Runcie: β The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity; but we say, how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil? β |
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literal | losing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12240 | 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. | 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. |
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literal | sold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18828 | FROM this month, all new cars submitted for British type approval, the test which allows them to be legally sold in the UK, must be able to run on lead-free petrol. | As a result of this rule, and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns, the motor industry's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth. |
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metaphorical | warned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22403 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard. | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed, but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion, a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end. | In private conversation he told Asquith " I am afraid that I shall have to show myself very vicious Mr Asquith this session. |
literal | Hold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.252 | Hold my hand nicely sweetheart, there's a good girl we're coming up to a busy road in a minute and it's dangerous Walk nicely darling, there's a good girl walk nicely just stand still a minute sweetheart hold my hand Charlotte please hold my hand there's a good girl. | What love? | |
literal | overcome | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13946 | Bristol and West hopes that by arranging collective auctions it will be able to overcome this problem. | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate, for endowment or pension- linked policies, on several of the houses up for sale, an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders (mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses). |
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metaphorical | save | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17181 | Well that'll save. | ||
literal | Looks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.320 | Looks a bit agitated! | ||
literal | learning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11387 | In addition the Elfreda Rathbone organisation, a voluntary organisation helping people with learning disabilities, ran a free day nursery in the borough for a small number of children with learning difficulties. | Since 1983 numbers at the Beacon continued to fall as it was increasingly seen as a resource for children with severe and multiple disabilities. | |
metaphorical | pronounce | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14869 | The β year and a day β rule is a legacy of times when medical science was so rudimentary that, if there was a substantial lapse of time between injury and death, it was unsafe to pronounce on whether the defendant's conduct or some other event caused the death. | (The requirements of causation in the criminal law are discussed elsewhere.) | Nowadays the problem is quite the reverse: medical science is generally able to determine whether D's conduct caused the death, and innovations such as life -support machines mean that life can be prolonged for months and years in some instances. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4074 | Their value in battle, as shields behind which the knights could shelter before they launched their charge, ensured their continued employment by those who could afford them β notably Henry II of England. | 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. | But the hatred they aroused meant that they were liable to be brutally slaughtered if captured afterwards. |
metaphorical | took | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21050 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures, Rufus thought, and a couple of weeks later it was all over. | Coincidentally, as the community and their lives together broke up, so did the weather. |
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metaphorical | sorting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18872 | β She's doing a good job on sorting this Huerter thing, too. | Bloody ridiculous them blokes at the DTI pushing assistance for Huerter. |
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metaphorical | left | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11498 | A row of epic proportions had ensued, which he and Angela had evidently enjoyed but which had left Sarah and Jennifer sick with distress. | β Well, I told them that, β Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other's eye in silent agreement that he hadn't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out, reception at the House of Commons, replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22708 | They win their parents over with a rose-tinted vision of the world which is decidedly reassuring. | The husband-and-wife partnership behind such classics as The Jolly Postman, Burglar Bill and The Baby's Catalogue win children over with ripping yarns and a wicked sense of humour. | Their books are usually set nostalgically in the past β the Thirties and Forties are favourite periods β and often feature the perennial characters of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. |
literal | asked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1491 | Well I, I, I asked him what he wanted for Christmas | ||
metaphorical | emphasized | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5620 | The importance of the riots in pushing the law and order issue, and specifically policing, on to the main political agenda was emphasized by the Liberal leader, David Steel, who argued that β urgent action β to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary from both a moral and a political perspective (Hansard, vol. 13, 26 November 1981: cols. 1009β11). | The second debate took place on 26 November 1981, on the publication of the Scarman Report, and had as its theme: β Law and Order β. | A subsequent debate on the same issue in March 1982 was also full of references to the experience of 1981, the impact of street violence, crime, decaying urban conditions, the breakdown of consent between the police and many local communities, and the spectre of β more violence to come β if changes in both policing tactics and social policy were not swiftly introduced (Hansard, vol. 20, 25 March 1982: cols. 1107β81). |
metaphorical | returning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16339 | Prestige comes in the shape of a Mercedes with the 240D or β Stuttgart Taxi β, commanding Β£7,000 but returning unfailing reliability. | The Germans are also fairly accomplished manufacturers, although a five-door 1980 Golf with a six-figure mileage will still cost Β£1,500. | |
literal | talk | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20171 | I shouldn't talk to her if I were you. | ||
literal | hope | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9591 | I hope you will understand . " | In private conversation he told Asquith " I am afraid that I shall have to show myself very vicious Mr Asquith this session. | In later conversations about Ulster, Law was frank enough to point out that bloodshed in Ulster would be the best way of ensuring an electoral landslide for the Unionists. |
literal | administer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.861 | It does not imply political supremacy, and does not suggest that the Pope should administer the affairs of the Church of England, β he said. | β The phrase β universal primacy β has a spiritual meaning. | |
literal | occupied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13716 | Mrs Bujok and her family occupied a house as council tenants. | In September 1988 Mrs Bujok laid an information against the council alleging the existence and continuance of a statutory nuisance under section 92(1) of the Public Health Act 1936. |
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literal | became | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1839 | After a few more minutes she became restless, and stood up again, her eyes searching the slope of the hillside and the valley below, trying to determine whether some small movement down there was a man on horseback or merely a trick of her imagination. | Should she set off down the hill to meet him? |
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literal | expect | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6076 | They are so frequent these days in London, which has eight of 20 First Division clubs, that we must expect aesthetic considerations to be overridden. | Yet many of the crowd were kept interested by the possibility of victory, which is, I suppose, what derbies are about. | Why, though, could these supposed championship contenders not have tried to emulate the fine passing that had sprinkled the previous weekend's Merseyside joust? |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2408 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital. | Theresa was wearing jeans and a grubby sweat shirt with a map of London's Underground across the front. | It was too large for her and the wide sleeves of limp cotton hung from her freckled arms like rags thrown over a stick. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7354 | Let's get some peas, I think that's it then. | Alright, I can open this up, I got the little box, there you are, just a minute and, oh Charlotte, oh you are a menace, there you are, now you be quiet for a minute will you? | Right, O K, now we can go, now we can go home. |
literal | cause | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2941 | Michael Freeman, the solicitor who advised the members on court action, said yesterday: β This will cause the most dreadful hardship. | MORE than 800 Lloyd's of London members on syndicates managed by the loss-making Gooda Walker agency have failed in their legal attempt to prevent Lloyd's and members' agents from drawing down their funds. | There is going to be a great deal of pain in the market place now . β |
metaphorical | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2737 | The speech came over the wires so late and the sheets were so confused by the Post Office β which is usual in these cases β that without the precis we could not possibly have got the leader through in time for the first edition. | It was a great help to us. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22950 | Before Raymont works towards β ways of showing respect, understanding and affection to members of the opposite sex β, she should realise that the opposite sex's obsession with β members β is a problem of enormous gravity. | The number of such cartoons is so small that, set against the insults to women broadcast by every newsagent and television channel, only a loony masculist would object to them. | There is nothing respectful, understanding or affectionate about page three. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8907 | You'd got the toilet there and behind the door, I mean you had to sort of squeeze yourself and shut the door, and behind the door was a shower. | ||
metaphorical | makes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12653 | This finality makes it proper to regard death as the most serious harm that may be inflicted on another, and to regard a person who chooses to inflict that harm as the most culpable of offenders, in the absence of some excuse or justification. | Even in crimes of violence which leave some permanent physical disfigurement or psychological effects, the victim retains his or her life and, therefore, the possibility of further pleasures and achievements, whereas death is final. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8946 | when everything's got milk on it | ||
literal | generalizes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7196 | The work of Diggle et al. (1990) examined only a single point source, though it generalizes to multiple sources and to linear hazards as well. | As a second example of health work linked to hazard studies we may cite the research being conducted by Cross (1989) on childhood leukaemia. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3185 | By 1988 it was claimed that Β£200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully β levered β more than Β£800 million of private investment into the inner cities (although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say). | It was providing 27,500 training places (often in conjunction with the Manpower Services Commission): some 2,500 buildings were being improved; estate action aimed to tackle run down housing; and a large number of new β partnerships β (which some might see as subsidies, or discredited regional grants, in a new guise) were in operation, in an effort to bring private investment to run-down urban areas. | Meanwhile, there were other incentive schemes β Enterprise Zones, for example, and simplified Planning Zones, which aimed to lift tax and planning β barriers β in order to facilitate investment. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7263 | Charlotte mummy get cross with you if you start this nonsense, just got to get some dog food and some bread then we can go home, O K? | ||
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1779 | Moreover, as Newby (1990) has pointed out, the complexities of environmental research have created a new kind of relationship between research and policy: β in the past, β¦ the relationship was predicated on the belief that science provided decision-makers with objective β hard β facts on which to base their soft, value-ridden policies β¦. | In these circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that there is evidence of international and interdisciplinary dispute, as Terney (1989) has chronicled in regard to IGBP. | But now we find scientists delivering only β soft β, uncertain β facts β to decision-makers facing β hard β decisions . β |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1479 | No one asked where he was taking them. | No one spoke. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10430 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch: β The safest way to live is first, inherit money, second, be born without taste for liquor, third, have a legitimate job that keeps you busy, fourth, marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities, fifth, join some big church, sixth, don't live too long . β | A passage from a novel by John O'Hara came back to Adam. | Apart from the last one which he hadn't got to yet and the penultimate one which seemed to apply in America more than here (here he had joined the golf club) he had complied with all the rest. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19754 | Very kind, but international players are supposed to be habitually influential, and it was Hazard who in the second half, with a few incisive passes, gifts from the heavens on a day like this, left a greater mark. | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea's Mike Hazard, who said of his adversary: β He could cope in Poland, not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well, but temperament β you saw when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . β | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1986 | He was beginning to win through . β | β How did Don take it? | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10290 | To meet these objectives the AEC has a structured programme involving group and individual contact, that is, six group sessions sandwiched between one-to-one interviews held immediately before and after the group. | The initial one-to-one meeting, held with one of the two group leaders, serves to clarify what participants can expect from the course and what is expected of them. |
|
metaphorical | approaching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1283 | None of these requires anything even approaching a thirst. | If it is at an elegant dinner table, there is a choice between a fino sherry (or a manzanilla) or champagne. | |
literal | win | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
54
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22721 | β A businessman has to take risks constantly β and win sixty per cent of the time . β | β The opposite of a good businessman, β Miranda said, still on a high. | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
10,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11198 | β You all know me, β says Paddy, and a fat lady with good timing says, β I don't know you. | AT THE drop-in centre on South Meadowell, Labour candidate Paddy Cosgrove has dropped in to meet the people β mostly fat ladies in shellsuits with laps full of chips. | Never seen you in me life . β |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20549 | I think he's, I read and the rain do | ||
metaphorical | walked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21977 | Davis, of course, would have walked into England's team in Poland a week on Wednesday; until last season's prolonged suspension, followed by injury, Bobby Robson had him firmly pencilled in as Bryan Robson's replacement. | Michael Thomas, several years younger, is not quite in the same class yet but may have to play in Chorzow. |
|
literal | steal | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
47
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19280 | His wife was telling him to saddle up and steal a fresh batch of cattle from his neighbour's herds. | WHEN a Charlton chief sat down to dinner in times gone by and found a spur on the table where his meal should have been, he knew the cupboard was bare once more. | |
literal | staying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
28
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19273 | Oh certainly not I'm staying at or the I am not traipsing across France. | ||
literal | quoted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
28,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15308 | In the catalogue John House quoted Monet's description of the painted light around the snowy haystacks as an enveloping veil. | The arrested water shone and danced. | He also quoted MallarmΓ© " I think β¦ that there should be only allusion β¦ |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
110,
114
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16956 | come home from work she said I've been looking round in Boots and that for you, she said er I've decided, she said I was gonna get you a gift voucher. | ||
literal | meriting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
85,
93
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13186 | Punishment is just a word after all: nothing more than convenient political rhetoric meriting only lip-service from probation managers and practitioners poised at the β window of opportunity β. | At a time when the Home Secretary is inviting the Probation Service to β move centre stage in the Criminal Justice System β (NACRO, 1990, p. 17) it may seem misguided and unnecessarily pedantic to take issue with the White Paper's notion of punishment. | However, this fails to acknowledge a fundamental axiom of social work practice; namely that language not only reflects but also shapes social reality. |
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
39,
43
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22188 | The, all these light fittings, I don't want to change them over. | ||
metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12555 | It seemed strange to make that argument, Mr Cook said, when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground. | Mr Cook also countered the argument that PR would build in a pull towards the centre ground, preventing Labour from implementing a radical programme. | β I cannot honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . β |
metaphorical | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13114 | β And what does that mean? β | ||
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
102,
106
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16759 | I thought then I'd be able to use it as an airing cupboard but it still didn't work but it's like you said it's because it's got such a good | ||
literal | asked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1453 | Delaney asked, looking at her squarely. | β Nell? β | |
metaphorical | assume | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1617 | We shall assume that the two kinds of particles have equal densities and move in opposite directions. | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers: negative electrons and some positive particles, which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment. | As a result there is no net space charge and hence no electric field. |
literal | focused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
85,
92
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6765 | This is conceived not as a set of hardware but as a comprehensive information system focused on the needs identified by the ESSC (see above) and anticipating somewhat those of IGBP. | In addition, however, funding has recently been approved for a much more ambitious scheme β the Earth Observing System (EOS). | It will collate data from the two proposed space station polar platforms, one European Space Agency platform, a Japanese one and also from the manned space station. |
literal | reviewed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
47,
55
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16375 | GIS work in this field (e.g. Matthews 1989) is reviewed later, but we note here the work of the applied geochemistry group at Imperial College (responsible for a series of atlases on regional geochemistry) and the existence of a Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. | There seems to be a growing interest in examining associations between ill health and the geological environment. | One area of recent debate concerns radon gas and its links to lung cancer. |
literal | processed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
135,
144
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14769 | The identification of chemical hazards requires that the locations of sites be known, together with the dangerous substances stored or processed there. | In the UK (see Petts 1988 for a splendid overview) the Health and Safety Executive must be notified of sites where hazardous substances in excess of threshold limits are handled. |
|
literal | furnished | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7110 | In Mike's office, furnished with heavily varnished Victorian club furniture. | Adam shook his head curtly at the offer of a chair. |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10637 | But just one line of things that you know, I don't mean a diary where you write a page every night, but just two lines you know. | ||
literal | prove | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14920 | If they can prove it is there, we might pay for it, β | 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. | |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17332 | Sorry, what did you say it was again? β | β Oh congratulations, Charlie. | |
metaphorical | judge | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10351 | You judge him so " " He judges me. | " I think he is often useful, in his way. | Judging runs in the family . " |
literal | solving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
145,
152
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18855 | Mrs Thatcher, a recent convert to environmental conservation, clearly held the opinion that environmental problems are not only soluble but that solving them can be shown to be cost-effective: | The political concern is not altruistic. | In the past when we identified forms of pollution, we have shown our capacity to act effectively . The great London smogs are now only a nightmare of the past . We have cut airborne lead by 50 per cent . We are spending Β£4 billion on cleansing the Mersey Basin alone, and the Thames now has the cleanest metropolitan estuary in the world . 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¦ . The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development . Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nurtured and safeguarded (Thatcher 1988). |
metaphorical | Keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.275 | β Keep your voice down, β Adam growled. | ||
literal | demonstrated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4693 | As has been demonstrated elsewhere with regard to the generic probation setting (Singer, 1989), the supervision of offenders involves two overarching aims: namely support and surveillance. | Probation practice is not, however, solely concerned with the establishment of rules. | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems: surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour. |
literal | becomes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
86,
93
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1913 | But if you have a tight budget and a conscience, running older cars on lead-free fuel becomes a much more complicated issue. | If you can afford an environmentally friendly G-registered runabout, then the flora, fauna and children of the British Isles will have a lot to thank you for. | |
literal | convert | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4113 | Mrs Thatcher, a recent convert to environmental conservation, clearly held the opinion that environmental problems are not only soluble but that solving them can be shown to be cost-effective: | The political concern is not altruistic. | In the past when we identified forms of pollution, we have shown our capacity to act effectively . The great London smogs are now only a nightmare of the past . We have cut airborne lead by 50 per cent . We are spending Β£4 billion on cleansing the Mersey Basin alone, and the Thames now has the cleanest metropolitan estuary in the world . 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¦ . The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development . Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nurtured and safeguarded (Thatcher 1988). |
literal | remind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
34,
40
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16014 | There was nothing in his house to remind him of Ecalpemos. | He sat by Abigail's cot, not wanting to remember, but knowing that now he must. | Everything that was left, everything he and Rufus hadn't sold, had gone to Ivan Langan with the house. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10796 | I said to you you know | ||
literal | needed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
201,
207
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13536 | The 1964 Labour Government was elected on a tide of impatience at the slackening pace of social reform, but also of optimism that little more than economic growth, fuelled by technological change, was needed to remove the main causes of urban deprivation (MacGregor, 1981). | 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. |
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