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literal | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19949 | It's when we're going to take it in the kitchen and put it away when we've finished. | ||
literal | live | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11929 | β Good God, Wyvis Hall, as I live and breathe . β | ||
metaphorical | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
62,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17351 | Using a technical term borrowed from electron optics we could say that the electron beam gets defocused. | Thus the conclusion is that, owing to the repulsive forces between the electrons, a cylindrical electron beam is unstable. | |
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20785 | I thought she was going to be meeting him next weekend then? | ||
literal | collected | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3320 | Children were collected from home by special bus and places were available on demand. | Unlike council day centres, playgroups or community nurseries, the Beacon Nursery was free. | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs. |
metaphorical | arose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1356 | While the first wave of popular interest arose with the 1982 Whitechapel exhibition instigated by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, it was the publication of Hayden Herrera's biography of Kahlo in 1983 which has led to her current cult status. | The enormous rise in the economic value of her work has developed in tandem with the increased critical and popular response to her particular blend of naive style and incisive content. | Since that date she has been the subject of TV documentaries, a feature film (β Frida β by Paul Leduc), a stage play, numerous publications and the inspiration for designer clothing. |
metaphorical | danced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4462 | The arrested water shone and danced. | " Not to be mentioned in the same breath with β¦ " she said, looking nervously from Frederica to painted signature. | In the catalogue John House quoted Monet's description of the painted light around the snowy haystacks as an enveloping veil. |
literal | liked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11759 | And we went down, liked it and that was it. | Mm. |
|
literal | sat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17133 | Anne sat in the front in the passenger seat while Adam was in the back with Abigail. | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis wouldn't hear of it. | If his father could have found out what flight they were coming on, the police certainly could. |
literal | claimed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3186 | Intellectuals claimed a formative influence in the second too: John of Marmoutier declared that monks from his own monastery had read Vegetius' De Re Militari to Geoffrey le Bel when he was investing the castle of a rebellious castellan, and ascribed his success to their advice on firebombs. | The poem highlights two important twelfth-century developments: the use of force in punishing aristocratic crime (the fruit of princely peace-keeping), and the increasing significance of siege-engines in warfare. | But common sense may have been more important than learning in perceiving the vulnerability of most castles to β battering-rams and catapults; for even in 1100 they were, as a rule, primitive structures. |
metaphorical | knocked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10582 | England's been knocked right down now haven't they? | So where's England? | |
metaphorical | felt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6504 | Miranda felt that the aircraft was an extension of her arms and her fingertips, outspread in flight. | After they reached two thousand feet, the instructor showed her how to fly level; he then encouraged her to experiment with the stick, manoeuvring the plane m every direction. | |
metaphorical | took | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21023 | Delaney took the lead. | ||
literal | sat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17138 | He sat back, pulled off his mask, and popped the sweet into his mouth. | ||
literal | condemn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
57
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3851 | What kind of hypocrisy allows you to (presumably) condemn a similarly degrading portrayal of women, whilst making your page a forum for this cartoon? | Is this funny? | |
literal | submitted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19530 | It was submitted that an owner cannot turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting, he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate. | For Mrs Bujok it was argued that the 1936 Act was designed to secure in the interests of the community at large that statutory nuisances did not exist. | He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance. |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12882 | I mean | ||
literal | mind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13220 | I wouldn't mind if those blasted slightly longer life in terms of the music they played. | But unfortunately, you know, it's singing or whatever. |
|
metaphorical | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
64,
70
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20139 | One might ask whether motorists are ever justified in knowingly taking risks with other people's lives. | This example assumes that a sympathy for motorists with overwhelm any tendency to logical analysis. | 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. |
literal | elected | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
38
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5572 | 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. | |
metaphorical | conceded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
39
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3776 | β You've done very well, β she conceded. | ||
literal | look | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11994 | I mean we've just been to look at some others and upstairs and downstairs. | It's a nice size. | But the upstairs one in the other one was was |
literal | fit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
215,
218
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6693 | only other one he's got is a silk one so er I was gonna go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas, seven ninety nine and, but it said one size now I don't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I don't know whether them down there would fit, they were seven ninety nine, there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think. | They had some nice thick ones in Peacocks but they were seventeen pound well sixteen ninety five |
|
metaphorical | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
66,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20318 | Note the enormous flexibility compared with a routine which would tell him only how to get from one particular point to another. | Such a map will enable the reader to work out for himself how to get from one location to another within the town. | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost, whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary. |
metaphorical | played | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
57,
63
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14387 | On occasion, their determination to sacrifice for Christ played directly into their overlord's hands, as when the count of La Marche, who had no direct heir, sold his county to King Henry II in 1177. | The counts of Nevers, the lords of Montpellier, the lords of Amboise and Lusignan, the Trencavels, were fervent devotees of the ideal; so the problems of absences, shipwrecks, death abroad plagued them as much as their princes. | When it did not, accompanying their princes in a joint crusading venture, as the lord of Amboise accompanied Fulk V or Hugh VI de Lusignan William IX, created new personal links. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16945 | 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 | confined | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3871 | First we shall assume that the current density is confined to a thin wire in which case the integration variable may be changed to formula, where S is a vector normal to the cross-section, formula is the area of the cross-section, and dI is an elementary vector along the tangent of the wire. | Noting further that J.S = I and that I must be constant along the wire we may write eqn (3.15) in the modified form [formula], whence the magnetic field strength is [formula]. |
|
literal | provided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14987 | An interesting mixture of the various images was provided by a story in the Daily Telegraph under the headline: β Broadwater Farm: Like the Divis Flats with Reggae β (8 October 1985). | The Mirror described the estate as β Living Hell β, and quoted one resident as saying that β You' ve no idea how awful daily life is β (8 October 1985). |
|
metaphorical | gone | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8551 | I mean, he could have gone any time. | ||
literal | warned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22405 | β Quite a smooth landing, β the instructor said approvingly He hesitated, then warned, β Next time be careful not to land too fast or you'll run out of runway . β | This woman was adventurous and ambitious: such pilots did not live long. |
|
metaphorical | reduce | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
286,
292
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15680 | 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. | |
metaphorical | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
63,
69
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7820 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference, giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election, there are a number of areas of potential conflict. | Calls for consideration of electoral reform and a new form of black representation are both expected to be defeated. |
|
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20830 | The youth of it, Alexander thought. | I thought I was world-weary then. |
|
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3377 | Do you want to come? | Oh right. | And is that a store cupboard? |
literal | obtained | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
46,
54
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13708 | In some cases additional subscriptions may be obtained, in others full responsibility may be avoided. | It may be wise, while retaining or regaining control, to trade under different names. | |
literal | finish | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6646 | Course you can finish your drinks! | ||
literal | acknowledged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
117,
129
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.741 | It is obvious that company output and projects must reflect the man-power and its performance level, but, if this is acknowledged at all, it is only in brief verbal terms within, for example, the chairman's annual report. | Similarly, broad factors such as the state of morale will again only be described by negative features such as absenteeism, stoppages, strikes, low quality output and so on. | |
literal | complete | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
78,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3736 | A standard contract which covers conditions of attendance and an agreement to complete various assignments between group sessions is signed by each participant. | 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. | The final interview entails a personalized review of the course, as well as the formulation of a follow-up plan to be undertaken with the offender's supervising officer. |
literal | read | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15457 | I think he's, I read and the rain do | ||
metaphorical | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22631 | The struggle therefore went on to keep the Unionist press alive, and in 1912 and 1913 both Aitken and Northcliffe stood by the party and gave valuable support in their papers. | The support for the Express in 1912 " provides for the introduction of Β£50,000 or $60,000 to retain the only half-penny paper the Party possesses in London, and no less a sum than $700,000 to Β£1, 000,000 would be necessary to start a similar paper if the Daily Express were allowed to go. | |
literal | rabitting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15314 | You let me go rabitting on β¦. | You were just going to worry about it alone. | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11183 | β I know. | Here's us, heading for trouble and God knows what else, and in the middle of you talking about Nordhausen, I start thinking of Peter. |
|
literal | enhanced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5727 | Southworth et al. (1989) have enhanced the MASSVAC model with the addition of a colour graphics module which they call MVOPL. | In general, they suggest that the model provided reasonable and reliable evacuation times. | This module has been developed using IBM's Graphics Kernel System and provides a number of display screens. |
literal | learnt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11394 | I knew it was right for him β this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children. | No one told me about it, and no one wanted him to have it. | It doesn't matter that he's not like them. |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
104,
107
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17342 | The other forty-five seconds were taken up by a policeman talking to a reporter about having nothing to say except that there would be an inquest. | The whole item was allowed no more than four times that in the BBC's Sunday evening news broadcast at 6.30. | But Shiva and Lili Manjusri saw the picture and so did Rufus Fletcher. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10652 | Did you know what you were choosing? | Oh, right. | Did you walk around Tesco's? |
literal | awaiting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
94,
102
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1745 | Meadowell has even discovered a new martyr in the shape of one Willy Hunter, a local hard nut awaiting trial for murder, and allegedly the victim of a police frame-up. | β Free Willy Hunter β say the graffiti, next to the old, fading graffiti for Dale Robson and Colin Atkins. |
|
literal | inhabit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
43
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10030 | In fact many of the arthropods that inhabit the water column have large, globular eyes of this kind. | 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). | |
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9432 | Can I help you plant the? | ||
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7476 | You get used to it. | You rally, you stand up and face it. | An hour maybe and you are making contingency plans. |
literal | named | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13427 | Leinster have named a team that looks strong on paper, including eight internationals, yet they recently lost to both Munster and Ulster in the Inter-Provincial Championship. | THE ALL BLACKS begin the Irish leg of their 13-match tour at Lansdowne Road today against Leinster, who have never beaten a major touring side. | |
metaphorical | reduce | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
66,
72
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15673 | It is important that participants are provided with the skills to reduce their drinking levels or handle more effectively β pub centred β problems. | The use of role play, incorporating previously discussed difficulties (i.e. homework assignment session 4) in β real β or set up situations provides an opportunity for testing these skills. |
|
literal | Help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.247 | β Help me secure the stairs behind us, β he snapped at Lawton, β as much as we can . β | ||
metaphorical | built | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2477 | Crucial to the development process is the relationship built up between the analyst and the user. | The best systems arise when both have a deep understanding of each other's jobs. |
|
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20641 | This is why you know, I, I think you should keep I keep diaries from years ago because I know you don't like nostalgia, and I don't, but it's interesting | Yeah about twenty. | |
literal | leaded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11324 | It is not as if four-star leaded fuel is going to be phased out tomorrow, but more and more buyers are asking: β Does it take unleaded? β | Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability. | What is certain is that the pre-1989 Austin/MG range, all Skodas, Yugos and quite a few Lancias do not, which does not help already depressed resale prices. |
literal | cos | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
148,
151
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4214 | She said ooh, you know can I invite a couple of friends, can I invite sort of you know, people back to lunch but when it's sort of the list I mean, cos I I'm not | ||
literal | anticipating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
145,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1184 | 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. |
metaphorical | pointed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
56,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14479 | The document, and the legislation that derived from it, pointed to a positively discriminatory approach: with both central and local government supplementing existing programmes in such a way as to strengthen local economies, as well as the physical and social environment. | It argued that in talking about inner cities it was vital to think in terms not just of individuals, but of society; that the multiple deprivations of the worst hit areas affected all the residents; that the consequences included a pervasive sense of neglect and decay, a decline in community spirit, a low standard of neighbourhood facilities, and an increase in crime and vandalism; and that, without government intervention, the future was one of reduced job opportunities, deteriorating housing, and a decline in public services. | |
literal | Give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
4
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.158 | Give me out a load, yes. | And we can browse and |
|
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21767 | β Why the hell didn't you use fenders when you tied alongside? β | ||
metaphorical | tightening | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
63,
73
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20904 | His hand went out, reached for the submachine gun, his fingers tightening on the stock. | ||
metaphorical | inviting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
45
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10221 | 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. | 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. |
|
literal | spoke | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19034 | She never got her use back and she never spoke again. | Ah well, and Aun I mean Aunty Lilly was like that Gordon. | |
literal | looking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
33,
40
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12127 | Children, after all, he thought, looking at Abigail, were happy wherever they were, so long as they were loved β¦ | He and Anne would be living in a house like this one, rather than that neo-Georgian palace. | |
literal | incorporates | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9916 | Most significantly, it incorporates a shortest path algorithm which uses the road network to find optimal routes between user-defined start and end nodes. | The GIS permits population estimates to be made for any arbitrary rectangular region on the map. | |
literal | entangling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
77,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5799 | They believe they have found a cheap, practical means of preventing dolphins entangling themselves in monofilament drift fishing nets β the β walls of death β believed to be responsible for killing large numbers of dolphins off Cornwall this year. | ||
literal | police | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14498 | What criteria would police and immigration officials use in their search for β potential terrorists β on a train that they could not use at a static checkpoint or airport? | Do terrorists or illegal persons travel exclusively by train? |
|
literal | suppose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19739 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention, and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago. | The giant sauropod dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus were the largest land animals the world has seen they weighed more than 80 tonnes and present quite different problems in the interpretation of their life habits from the diminutive trilobites. | 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. |
literal | influences | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
190,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10012 | Moreover, recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic (every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic. | Thus no meteorologist would attempt to forecast the weather 2 or 3 days ahead without using a mathematical model based on observations from all around the world. | Thus, to understand some local and many regional, national and continental and all global environmental events, we need to have a global perspective and hold global databases (Rhind and Mounsey 1989; Mounsey and Tomlinson 1988). |
metaphorical | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9414 | They held their line and competed hard in midfield, damping down Oldham's initial verve and preparing themselves for more of the same in the second half. | Despite many and varied flurries of activity in the first 40 minutes, Arsenal seemed reasonably secure if not inspired. | Then Oldham struck. |
literal | argue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1296 | It is hard to argue conclusively that the category of murder should be smaller or larger (unless the death penalty or a mandatory life sentence follows); it is a question of social judgment. | Of course, one cannot be adamant about whether they merit the label β murder β, because that is a question of drawing the line between murder and manslaughter, which is not susceptible of any precise resolution. | |
literal | agree | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
158,
163
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.962 | Link that with Trimmler's death, Goodenache's sudden departure for Germany and the mention of the Lucy Ghosts during their conversation, and I think you will agree that is the strongest lead we have to follow . β | Except that a lot of the information we have both lost was about the Lucy Ghosts. | |
metaphorical | assumed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
139,
146
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1622 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home, leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder. | He watched his aunt and Miss Williams wordlessly consult each other, but knew his aunt would do as she was told; successful solicitor though she was, she was ten years younger than Miss Williams and, as she complained, totally intimidated by her as she had not been by anyone since her late headmistress. | |
literal | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7845 | we're giving it to her. | ||
metaphorical | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11604 | She let go of the cabinet, coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it, and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her, throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters, and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean, narrow, metal window. | She looked about sixteen and beautiful. | |
metaphorical | rise | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16411 | 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. |
|
metaphorical | wash | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22413 | Do we really β wash down β a good meal with claret? | Port is immediately suggested by Stilton; cognac by coffee. |
|
literal | round | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16464 | And you go round the corner | You want to go to the orthopaedic. | |
literal | drink | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5400 | You must not drink before the session. | ||
literal | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15148 | Cos it, if you put sticky fingers on, you won't mean to, it'll just wo n't | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10775 | I know. | ||
literal | diminished | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
67,
77
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5078 | Although this is not in itself to be dismissed as a tactic, it has diminished the complexity of Kahlo's achievement as a specifically Mexican painter, operating within the particularities of her historical moment. | This β appropriateness β of Kahlo's aesthetic to contemporary debate has tended to remove her work from its historical context, to stress the collective and the cross-cultural. | More problematic is the way in which such a dislocation has led to the acceptance of her β Mexicanness β as mere decoration of the essentially feminist themes of her work, thereby defusing a substantial part of the art described by Breton as a β ribbon round a bomb β. |
metaphorical | folded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
86,
92
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6766 | Sorge didn't stir, even when they mentioned the gruesome spectacle of Trimmler's arms folded in the sign of a swastika. | He sat back and let the DDA give a full report, including the trip to the voodoo ceremony and all that followed. | β We still aren't convinced that Trimmler's death has anything to do with the death of our agents. |
literal | ordered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
52
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13906 | The following morning, Clare's playgroup was ordered to close. | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10629 | But I saw no other way out: I didn't know if I would ever have a chance again . β | β I still don't know if my family know where I am or if they will suffer from my decision. | |
literal | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9401 | Quinn held his head in disbelief. | Finally, with Arsenal pressing hard, he clawed away Quinn's careful header from Thomas's drag-back. | |
literal | kill | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
98,
102
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10475 | There are powerful arguments in favour of saying that there are other killings where an intent to kill cannot be established, and yet where the moral or social culpability is equal to that in most intentional killings. | That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially? | Of course, one cannot be adamant about whether they merit the label β murder β, because that is a question of drawing the line between murder and manslaughter, which is not susceptible of any precise resolution. |
literal | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9389 | He held the gun pointed at my eyes. | There was, at last, a look of alarm on his face, and I could see him wondering whether he really would have to pull the small trigger. | |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13108 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished! | ||
literal | ask | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1436 | When I ask the people of the estate what they want from this election some say they want Cheviot to rebuild it and others that it would be better grassed over. | Some say they should bring back hanging; others say it is the politicians they should hang; but most say there is nothing anybody can do at all. |
|
literal | stayed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
154,
160
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19269 | We've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I've been bitten by bugs in a hooker's bed, tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair, stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin. | β According to all the books, a secret agent's life's meant to be glamorous. | Don't take that the wrong way. |
literal | smiled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18768 | He stopped at the door and smiled at her. | McLeish thanked him gravely, feeling, as he often did with the Wilsons, that he was being enveloped in a large feather eiderdown, and, made restless by the call, went down the corridor to where he knew Catherine Crane was also in, getting her office in order. | Wearing jeans and a blue shirt, she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her. |
metaphorical | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
61
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7842 | The rough land is altogether too harsh and unyielding, giving sustenance only to sheep, and to the conifers high on the flanks of East Kielder Moor and Grey Mares Knowe, immense sweeps of hillside to right and left of the valley. | No-one lives up>here in the cleft of the White Kielder Burn. | |
metaphorical | concentrate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
49,
60
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3787 | Further studies, the researchers believe, should concentrate on pregnant women known to have a zinc deficiency or to be at risk from problems during labour. | They recognise, however, that the women in their study were largely middle-class, who might well have sufficiently large zinc stores because they were well nourished. | |
metaphorical | stopped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
49,
56
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19380 | At least, Mrs Huntley thought hopefully, she had stopped wondering, unbecomingly and stridently, how her uncle could have been fooled by Angela Morgan. | Penelope, however, it had to be acknowledged, had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle's will. | It was Grizel Huntley's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior, and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well. |
literal | established | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
38
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5918 | So far about 100 have been established, mainly in Scandinavia but also in Japan and several third world countries. | This may sound utopian, but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages. | As the network expands, so do the uses. |
literal | suppose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19737 | No I suppose er it's a bit hard on, the kid, sort of, work wise, expecting her to be her to be er ahead, but not | ||
metaphorical | straggling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
48,
58
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19420 | The headland was empty and almost bare, the few straggling trees, distorted by the wind, struggled to keep their precarious hold in the uncompromising soil. | The road he was on, veering left, would lead eventually to the station but was, he knew, seldom used since normal traffic and all heavy vehicles used the new access road to the north. | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield, the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles, while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead. |
metaphorical | boiled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
146,
152
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2161 | In the early 1980s, at a time when manufacturing industry was collapsing and the outlook for the unskilled looked particularly bleak, frustration boiled over in a series of riots in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, and elsewhere. | As in the United States, so in Britain it was an outbreak of violence that dramatically brought the plight of the inner cities to public notice. | All were spontaneous outbursts: none, contrary to some claims, were politically inspired or orchestrated (except in Northern Ireland where urban problems existed on a grander, more devastating scale, and where there was a unique heritage). |
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