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literal | please | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14419 | Charlotte I've got to finish, get home and feed this monster, don't do that please. | ||
literal | affect | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.906 | 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. | This is to be put into operation by concentrating on four themes: |
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metaphorical | suggested | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19630 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings, whose competence to declare war could not be impugned: thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI; they claimed discretion in the matter; and in 1184, the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus, through fear that its ranks might melt away. | So it could be a powerful weapon. | The contrast with the united front Louis VI and his troops presented to the emperor Henry V in 1124 was marked. |
literal | describe | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4792 | HOW TO describe Saturday's match between Chelsea and Arsenal? | Well, I seem to recall a London gallery exhibiting a pile of rubbish, which was considered valid art by the proprietors and drew a large attendance. |
|
literal | getting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7582 | to be getting on with it. | ||
literal | declared | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4587 | The divergence was sharpened by the application of a theoretical distinction, the fruit of Augustinian theology, amplified as the century went on by canon and Roman law reference; princes pronounced their campaigns just wars (fought against aggressors with the aim of re-establishing peace) or public wars (declared by a competent authority in the public interest), while they condemned the wars of lesser men as infractions of the peace. | Inevitably, therefore, war on the grand scale as fought by princes bore little resemblance in practice to the feuds of lesser men. | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county, a reapplication of the Carolingian ban. |
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22384 | β Where do you want that put? β | McLeish advanced on the cabinet and shifted it authoritatively, ignoring the clip on the ankle dealt him by an unsecured bottom drawer apparently full of bricks. |
|
literal | meet | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13144 | That's where Trimmler said he would meet Goodenache . β | β To Nordhausen. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17080 | β The Red what? β said the Exec Director, pleased that he had deciphered the first word of the new code-name. | ||
literal | attended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1693 | About 230 people attended the conference, held in April 1985. | Workshops facilitated by the speakers and the conference organising group examined integration policies, overcoming practical problems for children in integrated provision and available sources of information. |
|
literal | write | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23012 | And she couldn't write anything down. | I don't think you saw her actually. |
|
literal | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3625 | 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. | Before jumping from the window of her apartment, Hale had dressed meticulously in her most flattering dress, the corsage of yellow roses a gift from a male admirer. | Hale's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer, a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture. |
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8086 | So like, you go one, two, three, four, five, six six times you swap | ||
metaphorical | dealt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4517 | Some peaks of demand can be dealt with by using consultants, but they tend to be expensive and do not always fit well with ill-defined but important factors such as the favoured style of the organisation. | This is particularly so in high technology e.g. design and construction of ships, aircraft, power stations and chemical plant, where the product unit is large and expensive and the variety of required expertise is extensive. | In well ordered systems it may be possible to calculate the length of in-house experience required to achieve the required level of expertise in particular topics and compare this with the lead time for particular product requirements. |
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22643 | We went to Floyds I think we went | ||
metaphorical | veiled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21842 | 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 | headed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9284 | He took a deep breath and headed down, the sergeant, two constables and Miss Williams in his wake. | I'll lead . β | Soon they all stood side by side, one of the younger policemen coughing involuntarily. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7454 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say β get rid of the kids β and they are only half joking. | Shops like greengrocers and chippies, with pitiful cash takings, were routinely subjected to armed robberies with shotguns, balaclavas β the whole bit. | The age structure of Meadowell means it is awash with teenagers, whose only pastimes are having babies and body-building. |
literal | rejected | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15832 | As the week went by, Major rejected common opinion about two other large subjects: proportional representation and Scottish devolution. | He hardened his opposition to both, despite the fact that his own party chairman had once favoured the first, and vocal forces within his Scottish party were in support of the second. |
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literal | residing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16226 | Being an undergraduate at the time, my son naturally never considered actually residing in the house. | 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. | He was in agreement with my suggestion that the property be sold and before he returned to college in the autumn of 1976, he took my advice and placed house and lands in the hands of an estate agent. |
metaphorical | burned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2521 | Her face burned with the shame of it. | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination; had read something into his words, his looks, his actions, which had not been there at all. | Such was the feeling Joss Barnet had aroused in her, that not for one moment did it occur to her to blame him for anything. |
literal | open | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13860 | β You open it . β | Elinor shook her head. | |
literal | scraped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17538 | β It's scraped back to bare metal! β | ||
literal | argued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1310 | If the point of distinguishing murder from manslaughter is to mark out the most heinous group of killings for the extra stigma of a murder conviction, it can be argued that the β grievous bodily harm β rule draws the line too low. | Does the β grievous bodily harm β rule extend the definition of murder too far? | In terms of principle, the rule requires justification because it departs from the principle of correspondence (see Chapter 5.2(a)), namely that the fault element in a crime should relate to the consequences prohibited by that crime. |
literal | allow | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1055 | Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously; he also turned down Balcarres's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year. | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken. | Faced with Chamberlain's proposition, and without a majority of his own, Long had no option but to agree. |
literal | staying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19271 | A view of the park of the asylum where I am staying; on the right a grey terrace and a side wall of the house. | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment. | Some deflowered rose bushes, on the left a stretch of the park β red-ochre β the soil scorched by the sun, covered with fallen pine needles. |
metaphorical | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22596 | It was his, all of it, and it went to his head rather. | It had got up Rufus's nose a bit, though Adam had a perfect right to do this. | Nineteen-year-olds seldom inherit country mansions, after all. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17636 | He called her again and again, but she would not stop barking at something he could not see. | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees. | Probably a squirrel, he decided, and slithered down the side of the embankment to join her, scolding as he went. |
literal | snowing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18813 | Perhaps, well if it's snowing it won't be quite the same. | You know, like by a canal or something. | |
metaphorical | traded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21146 | It was a cold reminder of their world, of the business they traded in daily. | β Some needed reminding that we expected them to honour their word . β | β We had a large colony of Nazis living in the Soviet Union. |
literal | constitutes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3987 | The development of the Somerset AEC both accords with and constitutes a practical example of the Home Office's recent guidance to sentencers: | In short, they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody. | In recent years the probation service has devoted increasing resources to supervising the more serious and persistent offenders . Probation orders which are combined with constructive, disciplined and effective programmes of supervision are increasingly being used for offenders who stand to receive custodial sentences (1990b, p. 35). |
literal | dying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5497 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that β people are almost certainly ill, dead, or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities β (Openshaw et al. 1989: 12). | It is these, rather than existing, licensed sites which should be a focus of research activity, particularly when examining possible links to ill health. | Research is in progress, however, to assess possible health effects of poor incineration (Diggle et al. 1990). |
literal | chronicled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3170 | 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. | What is clear, however, is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise, that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes. | 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¦. |
literal | crackled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4321 | Nell's transceivered voice crackled in his headphones. | Delaney's stillness caught the attention of the others. | |
metaphorical | feel | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6423 | and I said, he said no you're not being but sometimes I feel as though I am, you know, it's the change! | ||
literal | write | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23034 | hang about, you see what it says here oh you don't play that one, just the something for you to write underneath, I thought it was complicated | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10882 | Perhaps when they come back they've got six months you know they've got a month's work on their hands. | ||
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12390 | It was surprise which made him stop for a second. | He smiled at her, an unexpectedly tender smile. |
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literal | completed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3744 | They interviewed parents, specialist professionals and mainstream day-care workers and they designed a questionnaire which was completed by workers in a large proportion of mainstream council services and voluntary organisations, as well as by some child-minders. | The specialist social worker and another under- fives worker with a personal interest in the issues undertook a supplementary review to examine resources for these children. | |
literal | become | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1908 | While telecottages should become self-financing once established, they do need initial subsidy. | The cost of providing the start-up equipment is in the order of Β£10,000 and Mr Dobbs thinks space is not much of a problem: β There's usually the village hall or an empty shop . β |
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metaphorical | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7017 | The analogy is found in such ocean-going amphipods (a kind of β shrimp β) as Cystosoma, which also has enormously expanded eyes, looking like headlamps, compared with its bottom-dwelling relatives (see above). | Of course because there are no living trilobites we cannot find direct confirmation of this hypothesis, but we can look for other arthropods that have the same modifications of the eyes, for example, in the present day oceans. | In fact many of the arthropods that inhabit the water column have large, globular eyes of this kind. |
literal | lowers | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12301 | However, adding a proximity to transport constraint lowers this to 12 per cent; and so on. | As different layers are added sequentially we see how the proportion of available land shrinks (Pl. 10.3); for instance, when geological criteria are set in the search for a deep repository, 25 per cent of land area remains and the addition of the population density layer reduces this to 24 per cent. | We cannot pretend GIS is a solution to the political problems of negotiation and justification but at the very least the openness of the procedures goes some way towards satisfying a worried public. |
literal | Int | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.262 | Int it? | That's lazy! | You crafty cow! |
literal | represents | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16136 | Hale's black velvet dress is cursed because it represents the values of the β Gringolandia β so hated by Kahlo. | Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses. | In those paintings where Kahlo wears European dress she is passive, weak and unable to control her own destiny, but in the Tehuana costume she is strong, powerful, hopeful. |
literal | became | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1848 | Finally, it was felt that unless the attitudes of advisers and information-givers became more positive towards integration, none of the recommendations could be effective. | It was made clear that all of the above areas needed funding from health, education and social services before they could be implemented. | |
metaphorical | faces | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6252 | The old drover's road turned aside here and climbed under the rock faces of White Crags to continue its lonely course over Girdle Fell and down into Redesdale. | A mile above the shepherd's hut the hillsides ceased their upward rolling and curved together to form a dead-end valley of broad - breasted slopes five miles from the nearest tarmac road, hidden deep in the folds of the moors. | |
metaphorical | making | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12677 | But on the other hand they're making a little bit at a pound a pint. | ||
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22628 | The divergence was sharpened by the application of a theoretical distinction, the fruit of Augustinian theology, amplified as the century went on by canon and Roman law reference; princes pronounced their campaigns just wars (fought against aggressors with the aim of re-establishing peace) or public wars (declared by a competent authority in the public interest), while they condemned the wars of lesser men as infractions of the peace. | Inevitably, therefore, war on the grand scale as fought by princes bore little resemblance in practice to the feuds of lesser men. | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county, a reapplication of the Carolingian ban. |
metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3400 | He'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time. | Well I have a brother-in-law living in Stainton He's lived there, he retired there some what, ooh fifteen years ago, more than that. | When I used to bring my wife |
metaphorical | allow | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1060 | Part of the attraction of alternative cancer treatments such as the Gerson therapy is that they allow a patient to feel more in control of the treatment. | Dr Slevin agreed that this is often beneficial, but is concerned about other aspects of such therapies. |
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literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11136 | so he's having a week off you know to change nappies or whatever. | ||
literal | lent | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11555 | 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 what, in retrospect, became Hale's farewell party. | The painting was agreed to by Luce in part to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend. | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source. |
metaphorical | takes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20100 | 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 | takes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20076 | A good pilot never takes a risk . β | He added, β Careful pilots are the ones that survive. | |
literal | pulling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15092 | Well you're pulling, you little bugger! | ||
literal | distinguish | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5213 | Reproductive structures should really be found to distinguish it from other, superficially fern-like plants. | Some of the original fine detail on the leaflets is preserved. | This frond is 9 cm long. |
metaphorical | arranging | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1370 | 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). |
|
metaphorical | keeps | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10433 | The Chairman of the company told him he was most impressed with the contribution he's made to the business, and that he could go right to the top if he keeps it up. | β Christopher has been promoted after only one year. | I knew you'd be delighted to hear that . β |
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7936 | Did it go bonk? | laugh Listen, go away She doesn't say go away very much now. |
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literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8618 | Anyway, you got everything there, you got your garage, you know, you got double glazing. | Going down Sainsbury's. | |
metaphorical | gave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7169 | The radio on the dummy suddenly screeched into action as Delaney's distorted voice gave it life. | The thousands of tons of steel made real communication impossible. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17825 | and see the porter. | ||
metaphorical | howling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9635 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it, and then he pushed th " trolley in, and I went in after, and the mother began her howling and shrieking, and Will said, " Well, I'll walk off and leave you to it . " | " Going about your father's business, are you? " | And I said, " Where are you going, then? " |
metaphorical | gone | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8569 | The whiteness of the canvas body-bag dimmed beneath the onrushing sea, faded at the edges, then grew smaller, greener, and was gone. | ||
literal | accept | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.636 | Almost certainly the eldest child β Theresa, wasn't it? β had been taught not to accept lifts from strangers, particularly men, and he was virtually a stranger. | His instinct was to pile the children into the car and drive them home but that, he knew, was hardly sensible. | On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr's Cottage. |
literal | kills | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10505 | 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. | 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. |
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literal | permit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14194 | On a more modest basis, IBM UK have agreed to fund a pilot global population database being built in Birkbeck College to permit assessment of the impact of environmental change on the world s population. | However, significant resources are also being made available by the private sector where there is no immediate commercial gain: thus IBM UK Ltd has donated Β£3.5m. of computing equipment to UNEP and IBM in general is actively supporting other R&D which can be expected to facilitate β sustainable development β: IBM Europe, for instance, has invested $16m. in its Bergen scientific centre to make it the focal point for the company's environmental modelling and a centre for information on the environment and sustainable development. | Many other companies, of course, are supporting environmental work but IBM seems almost to be unique in its corporate commitment to use of high technology for facilitating β sustainable development β. |
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96,
99
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11300 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south. | But the child looked grossly overburdened and ought not to be so far from home. | He recalled what he knew about them, that their father earned a precarious living as a painter whose innocuous, prettified watercolours were sold in cafΓ©s and tourist shops along the coast and that their mother had been desperately ill with cancer. |
literal | mounted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
146,
153
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13321 | In open battle and in the plundering expeditions that constituted the normal form of aggressive warfare, they needed the backing of archers, both mounted and on foot, and of numerous infantrymen. | Besides, away from their home base, knights were useless on their own. | 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. |
literal | feature | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6361 | Spatial linkages also feature prominently in Brown's discussion which amplifies many of the points made in the earlier contribution from Openshaw in Chapter 3. | Like Gatrell and Vincent and Shepherd before him, he is concerned with the lack of detailed geographical information particularly in this case with reference to the years between censuses. | The analysis points to the need for the development of a fuzzy geodemographics methodology which takes account of the effects of different types of spatial errors. |
literal | leaving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
24,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11467 | β How do you know we're leaving? β she asked. | β Who told you? β |
|
literal | carry | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2852 | How, how many what did you carry out yourself? | ||
literal | suggest | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19610 | 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 | sold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
34,
38
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18836 | Sometimes, too, houses have to be sold by auction to satisfy the legal requirements of trustees or executors (auctions provide adequate proof that the property has been sold at the going market value, and protect trustees from future claims of negligence). | Less happily, but for the same reason, repossessed houses are often auctioned. |
|
literal | lying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
19,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12315 | He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles, the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love, the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel, the asylum fears. | He had trouble finding an appropriate language for the painter's obsession with the illuminated material world. | At first he had thought that he could write a plain, exact verse with no figurative language, in which a yellow chair was the thing itself, a yellow chair, as a round gold apple was an apple or a sunflower a sunflower. |
literal | argued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
38,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1319 | Surely an animal of this bulk, it was argued, must be partly supported by water, and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft, luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps. | Most of the popular books showing the Mesozoic giants in their natural setting portray them wallowing about in swamps flanked by deep vegetation, their bodies largely under water. | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary (see p. 115) to totally submerge. |
metaphorical | transmute | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
86,
95
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21174 | Precautions will not conquer empires, they will not build great cities, they will not transmute dreams into gold or carry men across wide oceans, and precautions will not, emphatically not, win fair ladies, β and here he turned to Ellen and lasciviously dropped his gaze to her long bare legs. | Precautions are the symptoms of small and fearful minds. | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture, then, as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker, he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at, then sat on, one of the white cushioned seats by the ship's wheel. |
metaphorical | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
84,
87
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15192 | Not a sign of spring had yet penetrated this secret valley, but another month would put that right. | There were five miles of return tramping to face, but they, too, could wait awhile. |
|
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16953 | but I said no, this time I said | ||
literal | ensuring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
92,
100
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5794 | The specific role of bishops which is to be exercised in communion with the see of Peter in ensuring the unity and continuity of the faith is vital if we are to hand on the faith of Peter, Gregory and Augustine. | He quoted the Second Vatican Council: β The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God β¦ has been entrusted to the living teachting office of the Church alone. | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ β¦ handed on by the Apostles . β |
literal | polychlorinated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
180,
195
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14511 | The rather clumsy handling by NIREX of the search for sites to store low- and intermediate-level wastes, together with very recent worries about the import of toxic wastes such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are but two examples of such concern in the UK. | The disposal of both nuclear and non-nuclear wastes has proved to be of major public concern in recent years. | However, while the former has been given considerable attention by geographers (summarized by Openshaw et al. 1989) there has been relatively little such work in the UK on the disposal of non-nuclear wastes. |
literal | subdue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
106,
112
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19522 | The net effect was that, given dedication, princes β Louis VI, Geoffrey le Bel, Alphonse-Jourdain β could subdue rebellious castellans within their own demesnes, and could build castles of their own which were impregnable to all but lengthy and sustained attack. | Equally, the improvements in fortification needed to withstand their effects β thick stone walls, inner as well as outer defences β required incomes greater than those of simple lords. | Henry II's castle at Chinon, where the treasury of Anjou was situated, was the model for its generation, with its halls, upper chambers, tower, and curtain walling, set on a high point above a strategic crossing of the Loire. |
literal | rationalized | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15400 | Instead, he rationalized his thoughts and justified himself Adam probably β indeed, almost certainly β knew nothing about the find in the pine wood, but Adam had once owned the house and had thus taken on a responsibility. | So Lewis did not say, even to himself, when he was privately considering trying to get hold of his son in Tenerife, that he disliked Adam and would have been pleased to spoil his holiday. | He could not shed that responsibility just because he had sold the place. |
metaphorical | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
169,
173
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9417 | 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. |
|
literal | pushed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15119 | Nell ran to the wall telephone, and pushed the digit for engine room. | The small light beneath the receiver rests showed that the line was working. |
|
literal | working | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
156,
163
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22929 | Probably the best illustration of the assisting method in action during the course comes in the fifth session when Somerset practitioners take the logic of working with the problem in the community to its ultimate conclusion. | In the second half of the session, course leaders sponsor participants to an evening at the pub for the purpose of practising drinking skills and purchasing non-alcoholic drinks. |
|
metaphorical | backed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1757 | Bonar Law, backed by fewer MPs than any of the other three contenders at the beginning of the week was now to be the unanimous choice. | Faced with Chamberlain's proposition, and without a majority of his own, Long had no option but to agree. | Robert Sanders reported the " election " meeting on 13 November with evident satisfaction: |
literal | return | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
105,
111
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16317 | Legally, the refugees have been expelled from East Germany, meaning that under current rules they cannot return. | West Germans will then issue new ones. | |
literal | creating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
61,
69
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4357 | As Israel's authority was being lifted, the population began creating an alternative authority of their own. | The second, and complementary, part of the Intifada strategy concentrated on the construction of an indigenous national authority. | Popular committees were established in villages, refugee camps, suburbs, streets, in fact in every community. |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13016 | What do these requirements mean? | In English criminal law there are now two alternative fault requirements for murder: an intent to kill, or an intent to cause grievous bodily harm. | Do they extend the definition of murder too far, or are they too narrow. |
metaphorical | allows | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
57,
63
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1105 | This species is preserved in a soft shale, but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety. | 51 Fossil frog, Rana species, Miocene, Spain. | The outline of the soft parts are also clearly displayed, so that the animal has been preserved almost in frozen motion. |
literal | described | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
102,
111
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4806 | In this chapter some of the ways in which palaeontologists determine the way fossil animals lived are described, reanimating the dead fragments to build up a living creature. | Since popular ideas of life in the past are often founded on vividly coloured reconstructions of β The World in the Jurassic Period β and the like, it is important to remember that these imaginative scenes are all inferences from bones, and similar fragments. |
|
literal | signed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18606 | He signed the Friends' Book in his elegant handwriting: Alexander Wedderburn, January 22nd, 1980. | ||
literal | peered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14165 | Elinor peered at the photograph of the new owner, a motor-racing hero, standing with her sister-in-law, Marjorie. | β I doubt that . β | |
metaphorical | persisting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
168,
178
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14211 | (Though in Van Gogh's case, the names, Theodorus, Vincent, Vincent, Theodorus, appeared and reappeared from generation to generation, the cultural parallels to certain persisting aspects of the family face, a heavy brow, an intense blue eye, a cheek bone, a nostril.) | Daniel thought about dead Ann Maguire who, like Anna Van Gogh, the Dutch pastor's wife, had named a younger, hopeful child for a dead one. | In the churchyard in his last parish a family in the English 1870s had tried to name a son Walter Cornelius Brittain and had buried three, aged five, aged two, aged one month, interspersed by variegated dead daughters, a Jennet, a Marian, an Eva. |
literal | thumping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20890 | His heart was thumping. | ||
metaphorical | lay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
145,
148
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11302 | Writing books for children is becoming increasingly complex, as the arbiters of the modern child's mores β librarians, teachers and publishers β lay down ever more stringent criteria. | β The problem with children's books increasingly is that there are armies of people who are properly concerned with, for example, the way girls were always discriminated against in the past, β says Allan. |
|
metaphorical | showing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
49
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18509 | Most river authorities have detailed maps showing the geographical limits of floods in relation to their return periods. | A case in point is inland and coastal flooding. | Within the next decade, as the privatized water companies develop their GIS, we shall see a massive amount of data conversion in this area. |
metaphorical | covered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
65,
72
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4301 | They all worked with some under fives attending the schools they covered. | These social workers were based in the borough's Special Services Team. | They were aware of a number of pre-school children who did not have adequate access to resources or support when parents and professionals were becoming aware of the possible extent and implications of the disability. |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17362 | Well why did he say to me he wanted a girl? |
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