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literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22580 | He went to the US because β Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be β. | Along with Sir James he found the US much more attractive, taking over and breaking up some fairly hefty US corporations. |
|
metaphorical | breaking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
75,
83
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2303 | Along with Sir James he found the US much more attractive, taking over and breaking up some fairly hefty US corporations. | He went to the US because β Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be β. | He rejects charges that he was partly responsible for the β casino atmosphere β that gripped US corporate life in the early 1980s. |
literal | throw | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
60,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20879 | She's just looking over there to see which one she wants to throw up on. | ||
literal | takes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20098 | Well she takes all these tablet things. | ||
metaphorical | making | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12702 | Why they keep on making new bulbs? | ||
literal | instructed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10086 | He instructed Mueller to phase-out vehicle manufacture in the UK . β | End of story. | |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12392 | Keller's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler, and he raced for the Grasshopper club. | He competed for the Swiss cross-country and ski-jumping team at the Student Winter Games and later concentrated on single sculls. |
|
metaphorical | quench | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
28,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15288 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates, as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me. | So, of course, does alcohol itself. | |
metaphorical | raised | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
118,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15354 | This did not, however, stop the question of political marginality and the need to reform existing policies from being raised at all, as can be seen subsequently by the attempts after 1981 to introduce both locally and nationally measures which were meant to address some of the grievances of the rioters and to ensure that further disturbances did not occur. | But the concern with overcoming political marginality remained on the sidelines of the main public debate because it questioned the perception of the rioters as driven by irrational, uncivilized, and criminal instincts. | Aspects of these measures are considered further on in the chapter. |
metaphorical | change | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3021 | " Daniel doesn't change, " said Alexander. | ||
literal | fly | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
24,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6754 | β I've always wanted to fly. | Miranda was defiant. | I won't be held by a promise that was unfairly extracted from me before I legally became an adult. |
literal | released | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15863 | The others were eventually released and absorbed into the Democratic Republic . β | A third of those died. | |
literal | bored | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
64,
69
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2189 | They had slept well, eaten well, slept again and eventually got bored with the passing countryside. | Adam had insisted they stay in the room and she hadn't found a good enough reason to change his mind. |
|
metaphorical | collected | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
85,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3319 | Brown's chapter on geodemographics discusses an application field where primary data collected for operational purposes are typically evaluated in relation to secondary data derived from sources such as the Census of Population. | The range of data sets involved and the demands that are made on GIS technology in applications of this kind are often more limited than those of previous applications fields. |
|
literal | using | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21773 | A number of stories using such imagery were run by both the quality and the popular press during this period, but similar arguments are to be found in parliamentary debates (Hansard, vol. 84, 21 October 1985, cols. 30-.46, 388), and even in official reports produced by the police on the riots in Birmingham and London. | Even the Daily Mail, which deployed the clearest use of β race β and β outside agitator β arguments, ran a major story on Broadwater Farm under the headline: β Burnt-out hulks litter this concrete jungle β¦ despair hangs heavy β (8 October 1985). | |
literal | compare | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
39,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3691 | A useful research exercise would be to compare the use of census and PAC data in deriving quantitative risk assessments and this is an interesting research problem. | This area of application would appear to be an obvious market for such a product. | Even with PAC data some assumptions would need to be made about numbers of persons per household if good population estimates were to be made. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7315 | I wanna get him another towelling dressing gown because the blue one he had on the caravan he brought home for the winter bring them home and wash them. | But he would he said don't wash it I wanna wear it. |
|
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8080 | So I go, have job to find it he just looks at me hard as nails. | ||
metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
284,
288
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12547 | In an earlier than expected Commercial Court judgment, Mr Justice Saville found that the members had not produced enough evidence of irregularities in the β LMX spiral β, which sends catastrophe risks swirling round the market to stop the usual process of calling on cash deposits to make good syndicate losses. | ||
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8451 | β We're going back to New York City . β | β Oh no, β Ruth said. | |
metaphorical | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
52,
58
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7826 | 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. | 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. |
|
metaphorical | drag | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5293 | Why drag her into my problems? | I seem to recall that Elinor helped you to buy your first good bike. | You might have given her another stroke . β |
literal | read | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15485 | β I don't want to read it, unless she apologizes . β | ||
metaphorical | makes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
60,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12635 | I mean, it was just the words they were using, I mean oh It makes you cringe, oh and then that er girl oh she's done quite a few things recently. | Yeah, the Robots. | She sings much better than she talks. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10980 | Yes but heavens you know you'll never climb with that and you'll never climb the stairs | ||
metaphorical | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
138,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19968 | 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. |
|
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8041 | Off we go again I go home. | ||
literal | move | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13341 | So the electrons want to move inwards but cannot because the ions hold them back by virtue of their electrostatic attraction. | There is then no magnetic force on the ions, only on the electrons. | Naturally, if the ions attract the electrons the converse is true as well, i.e. owing to the magnetic force on the electrons, there is also an inward force upon the ions. |
metaphorical | strengthened | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19430 | After the next change in dynasty, Thierry and Philip of Alsace strengthened their shaky claim to the comital position by attaining for themselves the prestige attached to being the outstanding crusaders of their generation. | Robert's example was a potent one. | Thierry's remote connection with the family of Godfrey de Bouillon, along with his marriage with Sybilla of Anjou, Fulk V's daughter, gave him some claim to the throne of Jerusalem; as a consequence, the aristocracy of Outremer viewed him and Philip with mixed feelings, expecting much of them, yet fearing their ambitions. |
literal | conceived | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3785 | 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 | emerge | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5598 | Baker (1984) suggests that four kinds of shortcoming emerge when checklists are validated in the real situation. | The operator may deviate from the listed procedure because it may require excessive moving about or because he is interrupted by the requirements of other tasks. |
|
literal | paid | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
38,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14026 | They kept their secret identities and paid for it through their Swiss bank accounts. | They had their own estates and farms to the west of Moscow. | But they remained Germans, always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . β |
literal | compare | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3697 | One method attempts to compare the structures of teeth or limbs or some other feature of the extinct animal with living analogues. | To proceed from the reconstruction to an assessment of probable life habits two different but complementary approaches are used. | These do not have to be biologically related organisms. |
literal | discussed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
130,
139
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5143 | It is correct for most of the chapter with formula taken as a constant but breaks down for ferromagnetic materials, which will be discussed in Section 3.11. | There is a difficulty with eqn (3.6). | All the other equations are all right but will not necessarily provide the simplest starting point for solving a given problem. |
literal | incorporated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9915 | Other spatially referenced data incorporated into the system include those on the distribution of schools, medical and transport services which can be displayed and supplementary information about them obtained. | Both sets of data were provided by Pinpoint Analysis Ltd, who are undertaking this digitizing task for the entire country. | The GIS permits population estimates to be made for any arbitrary rectangular region on the map. |
metaphorical | address | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.842 | Seems they want you to address the European Commission on European industrial development. | Ah yes; a Secretary at the Ministry of Industry wants you to ring him. | In Dublin, I think she said. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16629 | And he said yeah I said I could've got two for the price of one. | And I went down, I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to, I said to Robert now you know those shirts, that shirt I bought you for Christmas? | see that then. |
literal | nodded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13607 | Delaney nodded his agreement. | ||
literal | increasing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
60
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9950 | 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 | fell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
84
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6452 | As if in protest, George uttered a blood-curdling, lunatic-sounding cackle, and fell fractionally forward. | ||
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8107 | There we go. | You never know. | |
metaphorical | ended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
56
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5698 | Dixons' shares jumped to 153p in early trading but ended the day at 141p, a 22p rise. | Kingfisher's Β£461million bid for Dixon's led to a resurgence of speculative activity yesterday. | |
literal | occurring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13744 | By β risk β we understand β the likelihood of a specified undesired event occurring within a specified period or in specified circumstances β (Health and Safety Executive 1989: 30). | Once hazards have been identified there may follow efforts to assess the hazard risk. | It may, of course, be easier to quantify risk for natural hazards because of historical records and statistical estimation of recurrence intervals. |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8876 | Why have you got the sound up on the telly then? | ||
literal | returned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16327 | He loved the place and he returned every year to play an often small part as umpire of races between undistinguished clubs far below the Olympic standard he was obliged to administer. | But it was the spirit of Henley, with huge crowds enjoying amateur sport, presented with administrative finesse, which Keller took as the yardstick for the international circuit. | He said this summer that as he gradually wound down his involvement in sport, Henley would be the last thing he would give up. |
literal | beckoned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1874 | Standing by the swimming pool at Saracen, Miranda beckoned to Adam, who was floating on the water in a transparent blow-up plastic armchair. | ||
metaphorical | covered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4291 | In this process of state building, many stages have been covered. | The Declaration of Independence issued by the Palestine National Council (PNC) on November 15 last year constitutes a major landmark along this road. |
|
literal | becomes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1911 | A quick fix clearly becomes unfixed. | He conceded that there would be disputes with colleagues, but said: β There are no quick fixes, and I will not be indulging in any quick fix. | There are realities that I cannot change. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
34,
37
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7255 | Can you imagine a woman trying to get two men into bed so she could watch them? β | β How very odd. | |
metaphorical | meet | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
98,
102
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13140 | Instead of persuading the user to specify requirements, the analyst will be driven by the user to meet key needs. | But once the user sees the system, channels of communication will open. | |
literal | invested | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
341,
349
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10190 | 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. | Derived from satellite imagery at comparatively low resolution, predicted yields for different crops in different nation states become of commercial value. | 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. |
literal | hear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9321 | She said, I hear the Empire, or, or hear The Garden's doing well on a Friday night. | Well anyway I was talking to er Rosette tonight cos I went to the office for some change and I, then I had this like. | Must have heard about that from Alan. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16726 | I got him every time, until the end and I said I am not serving him this time! | Oh yeah, he was legless all night weren't he? | |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8353 | She's going now and gonna leave me this old crap on the table!. | She! | |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
71,
74
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17312 | Once that soapbox came out, Major campaigned as if he would now do and say what he really thought. | Was it too late? |
|
metaphorical | rest | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16247 | Another rule of thumb is that if the act is obliged to rest their microphone stand and amplifiers on beer crates instead of the stage, it will be a good evening. | GENERAL TIPS A general rule for pub rock patrons is that the quality of music will be in inverse proportion to the quality of the beer (except at Finsbury Park's Sir George Robey where an excellent music policy comes complete with a decent pint of Guinness). | There are two types of pub rock occasions: those, like the one described above, where the band is likely to suffer from agrophobia; and those where the pub is so crowded, death through asphixiation seems to be the only way to get out. |
literal | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
134,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19896 | And when he had undone her gown, and had difficulty in lifting it over her head, she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off. | She lay quiescent and felt his strong fingers, quicker now, move to unfasten the buttons of her shift one by one. | Then he pulled down the sheet, which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night, and she lay naked before him. |
metaphorical | feel | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6445 | β I know how you feel, Mark, β Muldoon said sadly. | ||
literal | matter | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12827 | It does not matter if the cartoon is insulting to men. | The number of such cartoons is so small that, set against the insults to women broadcast by every newsagent and television channel, only a loony masculist would object to them. |
|
literal | saying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17396 | I mean I'm not saying he's alcoholic but he goes out with the lads and he you know he'll he'll sort of thud up the stairs. | Erm sometimes if he's been out very very late and I'm still up and he's come home after a heavy night drinking. | |
literal | taken | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
90,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20054 | The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account β but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved. | A particular problem is that little or no quantitative regard has been paid until recently to the effects of quality variation in environmental data. | Goodchild (1988) has made perhaps the best summary of the problem and possible solutions to date. |
literal | varies | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21832 | The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time. | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence. |
|
literal | keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
118,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10386 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison, he apologises to the bomb victims' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss: β But we had to fight for our freedom . β | Armstrong seems the least permanently damaged on the surface. | |
literal | covering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
35,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4305 | Delaney pulled the curtain across, covering Forster who cut a small slit in the opaque green plastic, widening it to give himself a better field of view. | ||
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17653 | I don't think you can see things the way I see them. | I'm fifty and have a long way to go. | |
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
166,
169
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11619 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely, without making an effort, but it is restricted to the expression of two things β the cypresses β the olive trees β let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language β¦ | As for me, I tell you as a friend, I feel impotent when confronted with such nature, for my Northern brains were oppressed by a nightmare in those peaceful spots as I felt one ought to do better things with the foliage. | |
literal | convince | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4132 | In a sense, as long as he could convince himself that she was safe, he was glad she wasn't coming with them. | Whatever it was they were after, it was an unknown quantity, unknown, that is, except for a lethal ferocity. |
|
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16639 | And they said it was gonna be a difficult birth and that cos | No! | |
literal | announced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
52,
61
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1153 | Some of it is being carried out: in March 1991 ESRC announced a Β£6m programme of research on Global Environmental Change. | There is, then, no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change. | However, perhaps most critical of all in the early stages is social science practice rather than research. |
metaphorical | interspersed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
332,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10147 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day, which began with careful, detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories, and continued, usually by helicopter, with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites, interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit. | ||
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11788 | β I'd like to substitute Paul Littlejohn for myself in the power of attorney that I hold on your behalf, Elinor. | I'm trying to reduce the number of business administrators: the fewer there are, the simpler the system and the cheaper it will be . β |
|
metaphorical | assemble | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
126,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1543 | The standard method of producing task descriptions is to write all the separate sub-tasks at various levels on cards and then assemble the cards in a network. | There is a temptation to make these final diagrams very large, but often it is more useful to separate into small units with cross-referencing. |
|
literal | Observing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.356 | In addition, however, funding has recently been approved for a much more ambitious scheme β the Earth Observing System (EOS). | Approved future programmes include the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, the NASA Scatterometer and the joint NASA/CNES Ocean Topography Experiment. | 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. |
literal | abandoned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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141
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.612 | These give details of present site locations and some indication of permitted wastes, though little or no information on closed and abandoned sites. | In terms of databases on hazardous wastes, attention has already been drawn to the waste disposal plans prepared by WRAs. | However, for details of disposal the individual site licences must be consulted. |
literal | lay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
39
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11290 | She dropped to the ground again and lay down, burying her face in the sweet-smelling grass. | At the end of what she reckoned must be an hour, she faced the fact that he was not coming. | She had been mistaken ever to think that he would come. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
59,
63
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17066 | β Our tourist organisations are counting on big profits, β said Srdan Darmanovic, a member of the Montenegrin Central Committee. | β This will be good for the Montenegrin economy too . β |
|
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22089 | Do you want your chocolates? | ||
literal | compare | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
167,
174
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3696 | 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. | 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. | Given time available to train new staff it is not necessary to keep more than a nucleus in that particular expertise. |
metaphorical | attached | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
159,
167
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1657 | After the next change in dynasty, Thierry and Philip of Alsace strengthened their shaky claim to the comital position by attaining for themselves the prestige attached to being the outstanding crusaders of their generation. | Robert's example was a potent one. | Thierry's remote connection with the family of Godfrey de Bouillon, along with his marriage with Sybilla of Anjou, Fulk V's daughter, gave him some claim to the throne of Jerusalem; as a consequence, the aristocracy of Outremer viewed him and Philip with mixed feelings, expecting much of them, yet fearing their ambitions. |
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11574 | Buzz never cheated to let Elinor win: she knew that Elinor would immediately sense this and feel humiliated. | That's not a bad score for you, Nell . β | |
literal | supplied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
33,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19690 | And though some knights might be supplied free by feudal service, household ones had to be maintained by their lords, mercenary ones needed pay, and those with money-fiefs constituted a regular charge on the treasury. | Then knightly armour grew more elaborate and costly throughout the century. | Besides, away from their home base, knights were useless on their own. |
literal | defrost | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
93,
100
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4647 | At some point Rufus himself had taken the things out of the fridge and left the door open to defrost it. | They had packed and Adam had locked up the house. | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away. |
literal | shrinks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
87,
94
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18559 | 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. | Data layers include geological maps, conservation areas, transport routes, petrochemical facilities and demographic data. | However, adding a proximity to transport constraint lowers this to 12 per cent; and so on. |
literal | become | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
24,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1886 | Her β Mexicanness β has become a stylistic gloss, decorative, colourful, pretty, even individualistic. | The inter-relationship of body and dress so self-consciously referred to in many of Kahlo's most polemical works (Fig. 12) has been strangely inverted by her current popularity. | The colonised body which Kahlo clothed in revolutionary idealism has lost its function as a symbol of nationhood becoming instead an icon of female suffering. |
metaphorical | leave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11430 | Well, leave it up to me, I'll see what I can get I'll get for the party. | ||
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
75,
78
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7363 | Mr Freeman said an appeal was β most unlikely, because we are not going to get any more evidence . β | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11182 | β I know, β Muldoon agreed sadly. | ||
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11749 | What do you like? | ||
metaphorical | naturalise | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13432 | It would further naturalise and legitimise the evolving skeletal form of Palestinian independence. | It would be a natural extension of the Intifada's dual strategy towards disengagement from Israel, and the corresponding process of state building. | It would provide the multitudinous popular committees and activities with a more advanced form of organisation and structure. |
literal | seemed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
49,
55
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17932 | That jarring manifestation of furious technology seemed as remote and ridiculous as a dream, as silence settled down on Kielderhead and the hawk's whistle came down from the moors. | Somewhere ahead in the crags of Kielderhead Moor a hawk was whistling, a piercing sound in the lonely valley, overlain for a few heart-stopping moments by the snarl of a jet. | |
metaphorical | peeling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
19,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14159 | The empty dress, a peeling poster of Mae West and in the far distance the Statue of Liberty. | Three elements refer to the female presence, all of them dealing with an essential lack. | |
literal | depends | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
70,
77
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4748 | The same applies to the general deterrent argument: its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all, and, if it does, whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long, fixed-term sentence. | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public's perception of what life imprisonment means: if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years' imprisonment, the effect will be somewhat blunted. | As for public protection, this depends on executive decisions with regard to release; it fails to take into account whether it is necessary for public protection to keep β lifers β in for so long. |
metaphorical | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
65,
69
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18007 | A successful policy for tackling the roots of urban disorder was seen as one which sought to involve all the community in dealing with the problems of each area so that they could come to feel that they have a stake in its future (Scarman, 1981, para. 6.42). | The Scarman Report, for example, located part of the explanation for the riots in the feelings of alienation and powerlessness which were experienced by young blacks living in depressed inner-city areas. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16736 | I said I gotta be bloody sober! | I said am I hell! | |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
45
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17314 | One never quite knew what he was going to say next. | He always felt that effective musical criticism began by being well written, and he never lost his liveliness. | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music, a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time. |
metaphorical | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7740 | He is given an opportunity to do so, and if he does not, he is subject to sanctions by the court to compel him to do so. | Effectively the sequence is that the person in default is told what is wrong and is required to put it right. | |
metaphorical | designed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
130,
138
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4880 | Most athletes first encountered him as a voice, bellowing in multi-lingual fury at officials who had broken rules or arrangements designed to make racing safer or more fair. | ||
literal | taken | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
154,
159
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20052 | The final chapter in this section rounds off the discussion of applications-related research with an examination of organizational issues that need to be taken account of in handling geographic information. | Campbell presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of the organizational issues involved in the development and implementation of GIS. |
|
metaphorical | scored | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
51
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17534 | We were helter-skelter for 90 minutes and we scored three great goals. | We rattled them from the first minute and didn't give them any breathing space. | In the past we have had cup walks, not runs . β |
literal | required | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
178,
186
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16160 | A high level of mobility in the structure allows for continuous interchange of roles and ideas, and retains for the Unified National Command the closeness to grass roots that is required to make it truly reflect people's wishes and sentiments. | While the entire network of popular committees, local institutions and the general public constitute the field commanders in the battle of civilian disobedience and of constructing a political infrastructure, a rotating Unified National Command acts in the role of field-general, issuing a bi-monthly directive outlining policy and determining specific resistance programmes. |
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