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metaphorical
travelling
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 123, 133 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21193
This is the so-called Chinese postman problem, which provides a Hamiltonian circuit through the arcs (as compared with the travelling salesman problem which is a minimum route through the network nodes).
Here, then, is a familiar operations research network problem: all roads have to be traversed such that the journey length/time is a minimum.
literal
poking
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 16, 22 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14497
His mother kept poking toys which she did not want at her.
Anne sat next to him on his mother's cretonne-covered settee and Abigail lay on a plaid rug on the floor, kicking with her legs and punching with her arms.
A passage from a novel by John O'Hara came back to Adam.
literal
dying
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 69, 74 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5493
He described being taken over the years to see his sick, and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison.
He was convicted with the Maguires in the parallel case of a β€˜ bomb factory ’.
literal
went
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 4, 8 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22653
You went to Tesco?
metaphorical
leaked
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 33, 39 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11349
And when the story was carefully leaked to the newspapers, quite a lot of other debts were suddenly settled in full . ’
She paid all her gambling debts the very next day.
metaphorical
shows
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 204, 209 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18546
Some of the smaller, and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken, and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed, running dinosaurs.
This is that the dinosaurs, or a close dinosaur relative, included the ancestors of the living birds.
The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded, like mammals, and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely, then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded.
literal
want
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 66, 70 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22232
Yet, analysts are heard asking time and again, β€˜ Tell me what you want.
A user may have a deep knowledge of business problems, but knowing little about computers, has no idea how they should be tackled.
We've gone away from the days of systems imposed by the data processing department, this is going to be a system for the users . ’
literal
move
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 120, 124 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13339
Siege-engines demanded on the one hand skilled operators, and on the other a plentiful supply of unskilled labourers to move the necessary materials.
This effectively restricted their use to the wealthy and to those whose claim to assistance under the ban was incontrovertible.
literal
surrounding
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 103, 114 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19789
To model the dispersal of a plume of toxic gas generated by a chemical explosion and its impact on the surrounding area, for example, an understanding of atmospheric dispersion models, epidemiology and population distribution would be required.
The substantive content of much of this research straddles the social, environmental and mathematical sciences.
metaphorical
add
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 99, 102 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.799
Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride.
On and off the field the national game of the Land of Song is in a discordant mess.
β€˜ In all honesty we should have won by at least 15 points, ’ Brian Nicholas, the Bridgend coach, said.
metaphorical
stressed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 36, 44 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19439
In a statement afterwards Dr Runcie stressed that he was not proposing any change in the British constitution.
β€˜ The phrase β€˜ universal primacy ’ has a spiritual meaning.
literal
photographing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 13 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14250
photographing who comes in.
They've been to his little boy's primary school, interviewed the teachers and headmistress and all the school friends and everything just trying to get a dirty story.
literal
returned
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 79, 87 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16328
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.
Being an undergraduate at the time, my son naturally never considered actually residing in the house.
literal
impassioned
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 26, 37 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9743
He stared at the serenely impassioned garden made out of a whirl of yellow brushstrokes, a viridian impasto, a dense mass of furiously feathered lines of blue-green, isolated black pot hooks, the painfully clear orange-red spattering.
His play, The Yellow Chair, had first been presented in 1957; he did not like to think too closely about it, as he did not like to think too closely about any of his past work.
He had trouble finding an appropriate language for the painter's obsession with the illuminated material world.
literal
greet
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 66, 71 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9019
Muldoon rose immediately from his enormous black leather chair to greet him, coming from behind the vast desk with hand outstretched.
literal
learn
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 69, 74 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11391
offenders take part in alcohol education programmes so that they can learn to drink sensibly.
They learn about the relative strength of different drinks, the amount which is safe to consume, and the pitfalls to avoid (e.g. competitive drinking and buying β€˜ rounds ’) (p. 37, para. 7.11).
literal
requires
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 29, 37 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16198
In this context the operator requires a guide for action and not a scientific text-book.
Correspondingly the material should be structured in terms of how it is most likely to be used.
It is invariably better to provide material diagrammatically, systematically or at least in well-structured short paragraphs rather than in flowing prose.
literal
mean
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 22, 26 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13025
Yeah if you let it, I mean you know he's fair like that.
If you let him know.
literal
wanted
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 15, 21 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22254
Cos I was Mary wanted to go and see Simply Red at G MEX, and last weekend we or weekend before last when they were on, their big, er we couldn't because I had the kids Friday night and the two of them Saturday night and it, that was the two nights.
messed me up!
metaphorical
make
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 198, 202 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12545
Improved morale would also make possible organizational advances outside parliament, all linked to the issue of Ulster, and with the sights fixed firmly on the next election, an election that would make or break the Union, the Empire and Law's leadership of the party.
In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
All was linked to the sense of a new departure, a " new style ", a " new regime in politics " and a new team at the helm: as well as a new leader, the party had by the middle of 1912 a new Chief Whip, Party Chairman, party treasurer, principal agent, press adviser, and an almost entirely new team of Whips and organizers.
literal
bloodshed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 76, 85 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2133
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.
I hope you will understand . "
There was then an open toughness about party tactics; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine, six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot.
literal
going
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 35, 40 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8261
But you tell me how just how is he going to do it?
Of course he is.
I mean, ee, they don't explain to you how they're going to do it do they?
metaphorical
reveal
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 25, 31 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16348
The sediments themselves reveal much about the environment of deposition, as was shown in Chapter 3.
The first of these is the evidence of the rocks from which the remains were recovered.
It is important to establish whether the fossil animal actually lived in the environment which furnished its sedimentary cover, or whether its remains were swept in from some other place.
literal
earned
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 95, 101 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5504
As for his colleagues, Mr Smith said: β€˜ We're all agreed that we cannot spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it.
That will be the guiding light of the next Labour government.
metaphorical
convey
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 59, 65 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4121
In a culture where sexual metaphors are frequently used to convey racial and political conflict, the Tehuana represents that aspect of Mexico's indigenous tradition unbowed by centuries of colonial and male rule.
The ostensibly matriarchal society of Tehuantepec led to the adoption of the Tehuana, in post-revolutionary Mexico, as the image of the strong Indian woman; the undefeated counterpart to the despised β€˜ Chingada ’, who, conversely is the female embodiment of Mexico's hybrid post-conquest culture.
Kahlo's adoption of Tehuana dress, while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body, asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position.
literal
ai
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 4, 6 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1004
You ain't likely to pick up Prince Charming in a bar . ’
Are you looking for sex, or just someone to talk to?
literal
paralysed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 164, 173 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14054
I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy, he said, and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed.
None at all he said.
And he said I was completely confused and I couldn't, he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and, er, you know my mouth wouldn't work, he said, but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital.
literal
ensured
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 48 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5784
Fortunately, technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades.
This all presents major problems of data storage, handling (especially for global data sets), display and dissemination.
Indeed, this may grossly under-represent the present situation: the rapid spread of UNIX-based systems seems to facilitate competition and, at the time of writing, performance of workstations per unit cost seems to be increasing at about 50 per cent per annum.
literal
Look
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 0, 4 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.315
Look what I've done.
Mum.
literal
eat
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 10, 13 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5516
Erm, I'll eat the half
literal
turned
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 15 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21426
Sweetman turned and pretended to notice the sports-fishing boat for the first time.
β€˜ No, ’ he said helpfully, then bestowed a patronising smile on me.
literal
go
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 162, 164 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8181
all of them so when her class came up, cos she'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know, with the double third year, cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she didn't know anything in the class!
literal
said
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16901
They said, did you have any warning?
I was listening today to erm a man on the radio and he was only thirty four and he had a stroke and they were saying he, they er, they were asking him, they said well how did it happen?
And he said no.
metaphorical
giving
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 200, 206 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7830
In Warner v Lambeth London Borough Council (1985) 15 HLR 45, 50, Lord Justice Glidewell said a private person could lay an information alleging the failure to abate a statutory nuisance without first giving notice requiring abatement.
He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance.
Therefore in the present case the justices came to the correct conclusion.
literal
gone
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 18, 22 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8562
Sometimes they're gone for three or four days at a time . ’
There's no telling when they β€˜ U return.
metaphorical
faced
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 53, 58 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6244
At the end of what she reckoned must be an hour, she faced the fact that he was not coming.
She dropped to the ground again and lay down, burying her face in the sweet- smelling grass.
literal
monitoring
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 106, 116 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13308
Such techniques are now standard in environmental science (see Streit 1981 for an application to rainfall monitoring) and need to be promoted vigorously in hazard studies (Estes et al. 1987).
Where this is high it suggests that an additional sampling station might be set up.
literal
succeeded
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 10, 19 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19551
Before he succeeded Balfour then, Law was not associated with any of the features that were to characterize his party leadership; his contribution was to use the leadership in the service of all of these causes, to make himself the spokesman for the most spirited sections of the party.
Ulster's opposition to Home Rule long pre-dated Law's leadership and he had rarely even spoken on Irish affairs in parliament before becoming leader.
metaphorical
formed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 44, 50 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6920
The offer from the Anglo-Swedish consortium formed by Tiphook and Stena AB is the subject of an appeal in the Bermudan courts which is aimed at overturning an earlier ruling allowing SeaCo to proceed with its β€˜ poison pill ’ defence.
metaphorical
restrict
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 125, 133 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16263
Neither an intention to cause serious injury nor recklessness as to death should be sufficient on its own, but together they restrict one another, producing a test which both satisfies the criterion of certainty and marks out some heinous but non-intended killings.
A third, more precise formulation derives from the recommendations of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in 1980, namely, that a killing should be classified as murder in those situations where there is an intention to cause serious injury coupled with awareness of the risk of death.
literal
smiled
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 11 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18771
Mark smiled thinly and kissed her affectionately on the cheek.
literal
thinking
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 95, 103 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20686
The only way to develop a prototype is for the analyst to get inside the head of the user and, thinking like a user, decide what sort of system is required.
Of course, the initial system will not be perfect.
literal
think
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 8, 13 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20525
I don't think you can see things the way I see them.
I'm fifty and have a long way to go.
metaphorical
making
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 88, 94 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12682
However the map does require more intellectual effort than does the routine not only in making decisions about how to proceed but also in filtering out the required information from the massive irrelevance (for a particular task) which is equally available.
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.
Thus, one would expect the use of the maps to be slower than the use of routines with the human performance being more versatile but less predictable.
metaphorical
took
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21075
That took him by surprise.
β€˜ The deuce you do!
literal
know
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 76, 80 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10916
They live for like one holiday which is the summer holiday to stay away you know?
metaphorical
making
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 107, 113 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12701
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?
metaphorical
emphasize
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 27, 36 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5617
The White Paper goes on to emphasize: β€˜ It is the loss of liberty involved in carrying out the terms of the order rather than the activities carried out during the order which is the punishment ’ (p. 18, para. 4.4).
The punitive approach anticipated for the Probation Service in the White Paper is underpinned by a definition of punishment that resides β€˜ in the restrictions on liberty and in the enforcement of the orders ’.
Notwithstanding the popular appeal and political capital to be derived from such a humane -sounding statement, this definition is nevertheless at variance with the traditional understanding of the meaning of punishment.
metaphorical
look
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12034
Well look at the old lady that walks past here at ninety one!
Yeah, and you can't, you can't understand it can you really?
metaphorical
feel
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 86, 90 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6446
β€˜ I know what you need, Clare: someone you know and trust, someone who won't make you feel anxious.
β€˜ Forget this guy, ’ said Gilda.
Then you'll relax and it'll happen β€” then you'll stop being one of them miserable nymphos who hop from man to man, hoping for Mr Right, the man who can satisfy her . ’
metaphorical
read
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 12, 16 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15450
" You could read it another way, " said Alexander, interested now, " you could read the pears as androgynous in themselves, as partly male . "
Frederica informed him from the catalogue that the vegetation was supposed to be a jocular portrait by Gauguin of Madeleine, the pears her breasts, the dense flowers her hair.
" And the hair as other hair, " said Frederica loudly, scandalising a few bystanders, amusing a few more.
literal
worried
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 26, 33 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22976
Lately, Georgina had been worried by the general deterioration in his appearance.
But now she was visibly shocked by the drained and haggard-looking face which kissed her.
literal
differing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 182, 191 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5069
The ANUFLOOD system requires locational and building type data on individual properties, stage-damage curves relating the average damage that would result from overfloor flooding to differing depths for each property type, and lastly, flood frequency in terms of flood height expressed as a probability.
One interesting example of a GIS approach to flood damage estimation is the ANUFLOOD package which was developed in the early 1980s following detailed flood damage studies for flood-prone coastal towns in northern New South Wales, Australia (Smith and Greenaway, 1988).
Output from the system is both tabular and graphical.
metaphorical
bounce
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 50, 56 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2271
The theory is that its internal air pocket will β€˜ bounce ’ back the dolphin's sonar signal, regardless of the direction of approach.
The most promising is eliptical, about 3Β½in long.
literal
lie
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 14 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11654
He doesn't lie to his wife any more.
literal
asking
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 103, 109 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1524
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? ’
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.
metaphorical
made
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 26, 30 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12463
’ What would Bagehot have made of him?
There were also some lines intended for local consumption: β€˜ Higher petrol prices from the Liberal Democrats … that's not gonna help a rural area …
Like the heckler, he was a Liberal.
metaphorical
joined
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 136, 142 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10330
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.
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 . ’
Or his nature and luck had complied for him.
metaphorical
call
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 41, 45 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2604
Well who's doing it, tomorrow, what they call it?
Report he's doing tomorrow?
metaphorical
lose
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 7, 11 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12225
I will lose my practice and my reputation and everything that I have and can look forward to, if not my liberty.
If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others, he thought with cold clarity, if someone tells the papers, or the police and thence the papers, that I was there during the summer of 1976, living there, it will be all up with me.
And without the rest I shan't care about my liberty.
metaphorical
batwing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 18, 25 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1815
Pencil skirts and batwing sweaters and spiky stilettos, tottering with their hard little behinds sticking out, and all that red lipstick.
" My dear, I know.
I remember when I thought lipstick had gone forever, a dream of painted excess, as I thought paper taffeta had gone forever, in Cambridge, when we all took to glazed cotton.
literal
took
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 3, 7 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21036
He took an omelette.
literal
renovated
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 20 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16058
They, they renovated it.
They they they
metaphorical
reached
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 19, 26 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15429
His hand went out, reached for the submachine gun, his fingers tightening on the stock.
literal
taken
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 34, 39 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20056
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
determined
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 24 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4943
He was coldly determined to be a good lover.
Whipped a porn magazine out of his flight case after the first gin and tonic.
For me, that was a total turn-off . ’
metaphorical
coordinated
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 45, 56 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4156
Day care in each area would be organised and coordinated through the children's day centres which would also provide information, support and resources to parents.
It proposed a network of under- fives centres throughout the borough β€” an idea which the under- fives workers had been anxious to promote for some time.
literal
came
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 75, 79 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2713
I I think they'd been on holiday and, she took ill on the holiday and, and came erm, she was stopping at erm, Edith's and er it happened then.
Yeah.
literal
include
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 175, 182 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9828
If we consider the environment in the broadest sense, much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK; these include the DoE, the Forestry Commission, the Nature Conservancy, the Health and Safety Executive, local authorities, the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council (such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey), individuals or research groups in academia, the CEGB, the Friends of the Earth, and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED) (1989).
The diversity of monitoring organizations seems just as great in other countries; numerous multinational organizations, both quasi-governmental (e.g. the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)) and non-governmental (e.g. the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)) are also active in the field.
literal
pushed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 35, 41 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15120
She turned her face away from him, pushed his hand from her.
And now although her whole body cried out for fulfilment and she longed for Joss Barnet to complete what he had surely come to do, she knew that she must not let it happen.
literal
work
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 173, 177 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22856
In spite of apparently incompatible personalities β€” she is small and shy, he is large and does most of the talking β€” they have an empathy which is essential to the way they work, a persistent mutual pestering.
The success of the Ahlbergs' working relationship must have a lot to do with their long and happy marriage.
literal
talk
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 44, 48 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20162
Are you looking for sex, or just someone to talk to?
As Gilda held out her glass to be refilled, she added reflectively, β€˜ Although you seem more lonely than horny.
You ain't likely to pick up Prince Charming in a bar . ’
metaphorical
given
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 183, 188 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7728
As if 24-17 and derisive chants of β€˜ Easy, easy ’ were not bad enough, this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season β€” a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over β€” and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players.
Four of the absentees suffered the squirming discomfort of being among the Welsh squad.
metaphorical
seek
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 114, 118 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17846
In these sections punishment will be understood to mean the infliction of pain and the review of the project will seek to demonstrate that the probation practice described is not only more demanding but also more effective than this traditional understanding of punishment.
Beforehand, however, consideration will be given first to the probation project and second to its evaluation.
literal
required
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 23, 31 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16174
More detailed data are required for particular tasks as the role of CORINE grows.
literal
think
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 428, 433 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20694
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
stuck
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 128, 133 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19496
In Four Saints Thomson's informality was given free reign since he first of all improvised the music at the piano then, when it stuck, wrote it down to a figured bass.
First came Four Saints in Three Acts, produced in 1934, and then The Mother of Us All (1947), which demonstrated a new kind of plotless opera only now reaching a wider currency through the stage works of Philip Glass.
He said: β€˜ I had wondered whether a piece so drenched in Anglican chant (running from Gilbert and Sullivan to Morning Prayer and back) could rise and sail . ’
metaphorical
feeling
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 99, 106 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6427
He was aware of a slight feeling of sickness and of cold, an absence of hunger, though he had been feeling quite hungry when he got off the plane.
There must be a total retrieval now, the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams.
literal
advised
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 64, 71 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.898
Annabel was determined to get a grip on herself and do as Scott advised: remember 1965 as the year she stopped having to go to auditions and 1966 as the year in which she blossomed into a successful young New York hostess as she met Andy Warhol, Lenny Bernstein, Baby Jane Holzer, and all the other gossip-columnist fodder.
By July, Annabel was a Junior Friend of the Metropolitan Museum, a Friend of the Museum of Modern Art, and a patron of the Bronx Zoo.
literal
needed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 142, 148 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13530
In 1949, Amaldi wrote to the Italian prime minister asking for permission to produce and sell sealing wax for letters, β€˜ so that we may raise needed funds for our physics lab ’.
The reply came from an under-secretary who said that the present funding was considered adequate and the commercial undertaking would be ill-advised.
metaphorical
lead
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 57, 61 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11307
But some reports have suggested that low zinc levels may lead to problems in pregnancy, from difficult labour to congenital malformations in children.
There is stronger evidence that a zinc deficiency may cause the foetus to grow slowly in the womb.
literal
gone
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 14, 18 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8567
The heart had gone out of the day.
Ruth fetched and carried and stirred and whipped, praying every moment that Joss Barnet would return before they left Millfield next day.
literal
buy
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 25, 28 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2552
What you spend you could buy something.
metaphorical
dominated
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 70, 79 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5265
FROM the top of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral the view is no longer dominated by City church steeples but by an intrusive cacophony of drab, characterless Sixties boxes.
One building stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post-war mediocrity: a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a tall central tower that stands right across the Thames from Wren's dome.
literal
thought
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 8, 15 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20807
Odd, he thought, considering that Van Gogh himself had died mad and despairing in such surroundings.
He had seen these ample fields, as he had seen Cezanne's geometric brown and green undergrowth in more than one mental hospital day room.
Not serene, overexcited, these fields.
literal
forbidden
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 200, 209 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6845
Or was it that the kitchen reminded Dalgliesh of that rectory kitchen where the lonely only child had found warmth and undemanding, uncensorious companionship, been given hot dripping toast and small forbidden treats?
Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough, the soft ticking of the wall- mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall, the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door, the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs, the open hearth?
literal
prevent
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 116, 123 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14729
Listing, in theory, is an objective assessment of architectural or historical importance which does not necessarily prevent demolition.
In the case of Bankside Power Station, the ultimate β€˜ temple of power ’ and a masterpiece of industrial architecture by a major twentieth-century British architect, our historic building system is being perverted for purely political reasons.
literal
says
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 65, 69 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17488
β€˜ You all know me, ’ 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 . ’
metaphorical
regard
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 112, 118 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15786
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.
literal
reducing
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 25, 33 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15706
Economic instruments for reducing greenhouse gases;
literal
reported
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 60, 68 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16112
Clare still swapped one night a week off with Stephanie and reported subsequent events to Gilda, who now managed the shoe shop: occasionally she visited Clare for an evening meal.
literal
allowed
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 107, 114 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1072
It was I remember reading in the paper that it's been it's been filmed at a house which no one's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions, it was not
metaphorical
pack
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 31, 35 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14000
And I said to him if you don't pack it up I'm gonna get out and walk.
And he was being silly.
metaphorical
cure
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 74, 78 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4410
The aim is to analyse a problem which economic growth alone has failed to cure β€” and to consider possible new forms of public action.
The essays in this book do not amount to a programme: but they are intended to provide a springboard for one.
literal
say
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 9, 12 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17284
I cannot say precisely when I expect him to return, though I should suppose in about a week from now . ’
β€˜ My son is at present on holiday in Tenerife with his wife and daughter.
literal
talk
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 11, 15 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20164
But we can talk about that later.
I'd like that.
And I've decided to take up riding again.
metaphorical
glittering
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 121, 131 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7870
She also allayed her insecurity with a massive spending spree; each charity dinner required a new ballgown, and each new glittering friend β€” contacts for Scott β€” required a glittering party.
By July, Annabel was a Junior Friend of the Metropolitan Museum, a Friend of the Museum of Modern Art, and a patron of the Bronx Zoo.
So the year thus far was a busy one.
literal
served
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 86, 92 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18226
Perhaps a shimmering dry Martini cocktail (minimum dilution, stirred, not shaken; and served straight up) looks even more refreshing, though its effect is that of a silver mallet.
In the right place (possibly New York, but San Francisco is better), the Martini is the ultimate β€˜ Thank God it's Friday ’ drink.
literal
know
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 5, 9 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10915
They know when.
literal
describe
VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL
[ 90, 98 ]
VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4797
Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
This awareness is most obviously manifested by the frequent appearance of press reports on ozone depletion, on the greenhouse effect and possible global warming, on nitrate pollution, on deforestation in the Tropics, on decreasing biological diversity and on many other environmentally related topics.
Thus the algal bloom off the Italian Adriatic shore in 1989 is reckoned to have caused the holiday trade and local fisherman losses running into tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds.