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metaphorical | fits | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6695 | So that fits in quite well I couldn't remember what I was doing on Monday but we said, sort of tentatively Monday would be probably quite a good day I think. | Better than Thursday anyway. |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11018 | You know, like you said this and you haven't done it, you said that and you haven't done it and all that sort of. | Yeah but a lo a lot of quotes gonna be made to them after aren't there? | |
literal | began | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1963 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it, and then he pushed th " trolley in, and I went in after, and the mother began her howling and shrieking, and Will said, " Well, I'll walk off and leave you to it . " | " Going about your father's business, are you? " | And I said, " Where are you going, then? " |
literal | according | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.680 | But this argument will seem less persuasive when we have discussed cases of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility: where a murder is reduced to manslaughter, the judge has a wide sentencing discretion and may, according to the facts of the case, select a determinate prison sentence, a hospital order, or life imprisonment. | The answer sometimes given is that murderers should be treated differently because they are particularly dangerous: anyone who chooses to kill once can choose to kill again. | Those who kill and are convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility are no less dangerous than those convicted of murder, and yet the judge has sentencing discretion in one case and not in the other. |
literal | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2734 | The only problem was if β he corrected himself β when it came, which side turning, if any, would it use. | He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor. | The further away the better. |
literal | lived | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11894 | As for other occupants, how would they know who else had lived there? | It would be owners and occupants of Wyvis Hall between nine and twelve years before that they would wish to interview, and those were Great-Uncle Hilbert, who was dead, himself and Ivan Langan to whom he had sold the house. | |
literal | undertook | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21547 | The specialist social worker and another under-fives worker with a personal interest in the issues undertook a supplementary review to examine resources for these children. | The review had made no mention of children with special needs. | They interviewed parents, specialist professionals and mainstream day-care workers and they designed a questionnaire which was completed by workers in a large proportion of mainstream council services and voluntary organisations, as well as by some child-minders. |
literal | delighted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4662 | I knew you'd be delighted to hear that . β | The Chairman of the company told him he was most impressed with the contribution he's made to the business, and that he could go right to the top if he keeps it up. | |
literal | founded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7038 | Keller was made a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta in 1976, a time when the proliferation of new six-lane, still-water courses around the world, which had emerged under his guidance, seemed a threat to the regatta founded in 1829. | 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. |
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metaphorical | felt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6484 | But finally, in spite of their common roots in Satie and Stein, Thomson felt that Cage's aesthetic was destructive. | A few years later Thomson recognised Cage as β the most original composer in America, if not the world β¦ β and Cage repaid the compliment by writing the works section of a monograph on Thomson. | |
metaphorical | supporting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19715 | By 1986/7 the Urban Programme was supporting 1,380 starter units and 400 business starts in enterprise workshops. | Task forces, meanwhile, were directed to tackle youth unemployment. | It was providing 27,500 training places (often in conjunction with the Manpower Services Commission): some 2,500 buildings were being improved; estate action aimed to tackle run down housing; and a large number of new β partnerships β (which some might see as subsidies, or discredited regional grants, in a new guise) were in operation, in an effort to bring private investment to run-down urban areas. |
metaphorical | consider | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3922 | 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. | |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8810 | That one's nice over by there cos it's got the long hair. | ||
literal | involving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10287 | The Department of the Environment alone by 1988 was spending half a billion pounds out of an Action for Cities total, involving most Home departments, estimated at Β£3 billion. | Indeed, while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities, the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas. | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more: it would certainly have spent it in different ways. |
metaphorical | defined | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4627 | Although there are two offences, murder and manslaughter, the latter includes two distinct varieties: β voluntary β manslaughter (killings which would be murder but for the existence of defined extenuating circumstances); and β involuntary β manslaughter (killings for which there is no need to prove any awareness of the risk of death being caused, but for which there is thought to be sufficient fault to justify criminal liability). | The structure of the English law of homicide is rather strange. | The arguments therefore tend to focus on three borderline questions: What is the minimum fault required for conviction of murder? |
metaphorical | bankroll | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1769 | As for the private sector, while BT may be happy to provide pump priming for five telecottages in the north of Scotland, it is not about to bankroll a nationwide network. | Nor, it seems, is anyone else. |
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metaphorical | recall | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15535 | And then when you look at it er you can recall then | You know, little, just a line. | |
literal | downhearted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5290 | Had she not been so downhearted Ruth would have enjoyed herself. | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered. |
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literal | unfasten | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21555 | She lay quiescent and felt his strong fingers, quicker now, move to unfasten the buttons of her shift one by one. | 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. |
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metaphorical | passed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14082 | Well Carl hadn't passed | That's right. | |
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12116 | she's just looked this way now. | She kept looking over there. |
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literal | believed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2058 | β I believed the genre was still an important and powerful one. | It's something I've always had an affection for. |
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literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8463 | And they said it was gonna be a difficult birth and that cos | No! | |
literal | knew | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10558 | Peter Yeo, who knew him in this over-candid, over-emphatic mood, decided to prod gently. | Barton assured him warmly that Angela had done a great job and he was now confident of getting planning permission on the vast site he had wanted. | β Angela said the council wanted it for housing? β |
literal | tired | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20912 | You're not tired. | ||
metaphorical | barricaded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1776 | But, without other changes, the result is likely to be a β society of barricaded self-defence, and a steady erosion of civil liberties β. | Improved police methods might help, writes Harrison, to contain the problem. | And he concludes, β of all the warnings that the inner city has to offer for the direction British society is taking, this is perhaps the most sinister β. |
literal | ooh | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13812 | Well my wife and I have only been here, living here ooh just over twelve months now so we don't really know the | ||
literal | says | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17451 | She says to me I've explained to her how to do it and she says I'll give you a bit of paper you just write down the answers! | ||
literal | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20120 | 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 | moaned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13283 | We could can prime them up on what to say and types of things to talk about so they don't get moaned down or something! | Bogged down! |
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metaphorical | divided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5249 | Sixty three divided by nine is six! | No! | Write six through it. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20526 | I don't think you saw her actually. | And she couldn't write anything down. | |
metaphorical | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19942 | In Britain, the tight financial regime imposed on local councils and the reluctance of central government to take on any new expenditure makes it necessary to seek funds from the private sector. | In Scandinavia, with their mixed economies, money is always available, after a bit of persuasion, from both local and central government. | |
literal | play | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14356 | As Foresman (1986) suggests, we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role. | Clearly, the research demands access to exceptionally good environmental data, usually in three dimensions. | Merchant et al. (1987) for example, use the image processing system ERDAS to construct an index of vulnerability to groundwater pollution; this uses variables such as depth to water table, soil type, slope and so on (see Estes et al. 1987 for a similar approach). |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8700 | I mean I've got no diaries dating back that long. | ||
metaphorical | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7833 | It was now light, the lamps on the gangway giving murky yellow pools that barely pushed back the inky blackness of a starless night. | ||
literal | complicated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3747 | The main contenders for the leadership were Austen Chamberlain and Walter Long, representing the two different establishments of the Edwardian Unionist party β the opposite worlds of Birmingham and Wiltshire β but the situation was complicated by the intervention of two outsiders, Edward Carson and Andrew Bonar Law. | Two strong groups emerged behind Long and Chamberlain, about equal in numbers, but there were few backers for Carson or Law. |
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metaphorical | aimed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1015 | The sales combine items of charm at fairly accessible prices with some rare treasures aimed at big-time collectors. | They are mixing Islamic art from the Middle East with Indian and South-East Asian. | |
literal | despise | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4900 | β I did not use fenders, Breakspear, because I despise precautions. | He sighed, intimating what a bore I was being. | Precautions are the symptoms of small and fearful minds. |
metaphorical | fight | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6529 | I had to fight every step of the way for this. | No one told me about it, and no one wanted him to have it. |
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metaphorical | offers | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13805 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign are conducting a joint study of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, which offers a holistic programme β dietary advice and emotional counselling β to complement medical treatment. | ||
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7322 | I'll get him a card. | ||
metaphorical | support | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19703 | So in practice the β grievous bodily harm β rule goes further than the arguments of its protagonists would support. | In the leading case of Cunningham Lord Edmund-Davies (dissenting) gave the example of breaking someone's arm: that is a really serious injury, but one which is unlikely to endanger the victim's life. | |
literal | worked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22891 | Beforehand he worked as a probation officer for Berkshire Probation Service and later as a research officer for Somerset Probation Service where he undertook the research reported here. | Lawrence Singer is an Assistant Chief Probation Officer with Merseyside Probation Service. | The paradigm which is described originates from doctoral research into generic probation practice and has been presented in a book Adult Probation and Juvenile Supervision: Beyond the Care-Control Dilemma (1989, Gower). |
literal | set | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18277 | The objectives of the new agency would be to assist the Community and the Member States to achieve the goals set out in the Treaty of Rome and in successive environmental action programmes; it must also, however, be seen in the context of the European Council's adoption on 2 December 1988 of the Rhodes Declaration on the Environment and the environment chapter in the Single European Act which comes into effect in 1992. | The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale, nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis (a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later). | |
literal | agreed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.969 | He smoothly changed the subject to the looks of the blond model, three tables away, and Barton agreed he wouldn't mind a bit of that; on the thin side, mind you, but tasty. | Peter Yeo winced inwardly, but he was not going to tell Andy Barton that Angela was missing, or express any of his reservations about how much influence Angela could bring to bear. | The rest of lunch passed in similar diversion, interspersed with details of last week's turnover which were never far from Barton's mind, whatever other distractions offered. |
literal | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20125 | Er do don't you remember us taking Iris and Ian down to see her? | I mean she was in Park Hospital for so long and then she was transferred to a nursing home in Thornton. | |
literal | bought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2246 | I bought it for you. | ||
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16933 | You know, like you said this and you haven't done it, you said that and you haven't done it and all that sort of. | Yeah but a lo a lot of quotes gonna be made to them after aren't there? | |
metaphorical | building | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2459 | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering β and at half-time, building on their win over Newbridge, it looked as if they would. | Nicholas was sympathetic: β He is only as good as the players we give him . β | They had weathered Bridgend's early fury, conceding a try before coming back with some confidence to score three of their own. |
literal | provides | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15027 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems. | These real difficulties of man-power utilisation are such as to force many organisations to become larger and larger if they are to remain economic. | For example, difficulties of communications and in particular, how to inculcate the feeling within each individual that he and his performance are important to the organisation. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17655 | I go on there see. | ||
metaphorical | contained | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4030 | The Conservative manifesto contained a commitment to increase, year by year, the level of β real resources β committed to the NHS β though it put no figure on the extra money to be allocated. | ||
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12974 | Since, I mean when it was on the back I thought oh I don't know how you get used to each since he took the evening out and then he's different bloke | ||
literal | envisaged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5839 | The detailed specific roles of β the System β (comprising both agency and network) are envisaged as: | 1 . To provide the Community, the Member States and participating third countries with the objective (sic) information requested for the formulation and implementation of sound and effective environmental policies; 2 . In particular, to provide technical, scientific and economic information requested by the Commission in its tasks of identification, preparation and assessment of the implementation and results of environmental action and legislation; 3 . To stimulate the development and the application within the agency of techniques of environmental modelling and forecasting in order that adequate preventative action can be taken at the appropriate time; 4 . To help ensure the harmonization and comparability of environmental data in the Community as well as the integration of European environmental data into international environmental monitoring programmes, such as those established within the framework of the United Nations and its system of agencies. |
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literal | sold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18824 | And the prints have been sold across Europe β there's been one arrest in Denmark already β including Britain. | Amiel is the first reputable dealer to be prosecuted, but more than 100 others as well as auction houses across America are now under subpoena to explain what they thought they were selling. | The art world is very close to its own Watergate. |
metaphorical | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3357 | 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 | selling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18154 | β Country properties were not selling well at the time. | ||
literal | round | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16469 | From there, like a buzzard in its eyrie, he would make forays round the US and abroad in spite of his advanced age. | For many years Thomson lived in New York in his apartment at the Chelsea Hotel. | He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music, in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies. |
literal | leaderships | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11326 | full Sunday Times tomorrow, Major expose on the the the Labour leaderships ties with a Moscow Moscow company. | ||
literal | buying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2562 | Have you been buying naughty things again Joelle? | What have you been doing? | Naughty girl. |
literal | advanced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.890 | McLeish advanced on the cabinet and shifted it authoritatively, ignoring the clip on the ankle dealt him by an unsecured bottom drawer apparently full of bricks. | β Where do you want that put? β | |
literal | contact | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4018 | One of their main assignments was to contact Edoardo Amaldi, a physicist thought to be in hiding near Rome. | IN December, 1943, the men working feverishly to create the first American atomic bomb sent a team of β spooks β to Naples. | Six months later, the day before Rome's liberation by the Allies, Amaldi was found. |
metaphorical | flowed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6734 | This flowed through to earnings per share, up a half at 19.6p and shareholders receive a 25 per cent increase in the interim dividend to 2.7p. | Increased demand for its road, rail and sea container fleets during the first half helped boost the latest figures. | The shares rose 9p to 443p. |
literal | knew | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10532 | He knew then where he'd heard something similar before. | It was like a man breathing through a respiratory system, with some sort of one-way valve. |
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literal | clicking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3234 | Using equipment donated by Racal, the scientists have analysed recordings of the β clicking β dolphins make while hunting. | ||
metaphorical | drop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5442 | We'll just drop the kids over Beryl's and er | ||
metaphorical | tainted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19883 | It is the duty of us all to ensure that an entire cultural group is not tainted by the actions of a criminal minority. | We share a common sorrow. | (Dear, 1985, p. 69) |
metaphorical | won | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22774 | It won substantial critical acclaim and will show in Britain next year. | Lonesome Dove, a five-part story of a Texas-to-Montana cattle drive, also shown on CBS last year, was the best-watched TV mini-series of any kind in America for five years. | |
literal | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3631 | Muldoon rose immediately from his enormous black leather chair to greet him, coming from behind the vast desk with hand outstretched. | ||
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17095 | β We have taken a step backward, β Ryan said β and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November. | As the Welsh squad do not meet again until 30 October, time has all but run out. |
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literal | dumped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5484 | What is not known is information on the locations of former sites, at which quite toxic materials may have been dumped, though recent work by Egger (1989) in Austria has mapped a vast number of such sites. | They too contain useful material on, for instance, the locations of sites, though individual site licences must be consulted for details of what each is permitted to take in the way of hazardous wastes. | It is these, rather than existing, licensed sites which should be a focus of research activity, particularly when examining possible links to ill health. |
metaphorical | Come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.45 | Come on Phil! | ||
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21814 | Traditionally, systems were validated by users agreeing functional specifications. | In theory, validation meant that the user had read the specification, imagined how the system would work in practice, and agreed the design. |
|
literal | describe | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4794 | If it is fairly small it may be necessary to describe how to unpack it, fix it into position, connect it to power supplies and start it up. | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly. | If it is large, the emphasis will be on the start up procedure. |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
5
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17666 | I see! | ||
literal | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20932 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree, about noir-rouge, and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now, to cheer people up. | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives, and Alexander, still lecturing, said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères, had torn up his own, had made do with the olives themselves. | The trees stood under their haloes of pink and green strokes, small flying things, solidified light movements or saccades of the eye, brushstrokes, pigment. |
metaphorical | gave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
66,
70
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7153 | In the leading case of Cunningham Lord Edmund-Davies (dissenting) gave the example of breaking someone's arm: that is a really serious injury, but one which is unlikely to endanger the victim's life. | The counter-arguments, which would uphold the principle of correspondence, are that breach of that principle is unnecessary when the amplitude of the crime of manslaughter lies beneath murder, and also that the definition of grievous bodily harm includes a number of injuries which are most unlikely to put the victim's life at risk. | So in practice the β grievous bodily harm β rule goes further than the arguments of its protagonists would support. |
literal | shiver | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
198,
204
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18402 | Yet given what we have learned about links between the security services and the Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, and the deep suspicion about surrogate murders, you can't shrug off the shiver Conlon's words bring. | ||
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
52,
55
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17777 | We used to watch the game together and I'd suddenly see him wince in pain. | If he got hurt, my guy used to suffer, too. | Just like that. |
metaphorical | fix | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6701 | Still, Angie can fix the Treasury on this one, given her boyfriend, can't she? | No one ever gave me anything and my business works. | That's the reason I wanted you on this . β |
literal | created | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
87,
94
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4347 | John of Marmoutier's life of Geoffrey le Bel offers a glimpse of how strong bonds were created between the prince and his followers within the household, and how a high level of training was maintained at all times. | Geoffrey was brought up from infancy with the sons of neighbouring Angevin lords, on whose companionship he relied. |
|
metaphorical | knowledge-based | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
222,
237
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11063 | These include the highly specialized nature of much of the technical analysis, the limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many of the findings of this kind of research and the consequent need for the development of knowledge-based inference machines for extracting useful information from secondary and often proxy data. | The chapter as a whole draws attention to a number of key methodological issues that are involved in environmental monitoring and prediction. | |
literal | impose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
138,
144
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9772 | JOHN SMITH, the shadow Chancellor, yesterday set the overriding tone for this week's Labour Party conference with a warning that he would impose tough spending controls if Labour won the next election. | His warning casts doubt on Labour's commitment to increase spending on β priority β programmes for the health service and pensions. |
|
literal | looking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
91,
98
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12137 | Her husband Francis had made a slightly better showing than her daughter Jennifer, who was looking particularly ragged. | Fifty miles north, Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at. | Mother and daughter were very like each other, tall, dark, slim, pleasant-looking women with mid-brown curly hair and slightly snub noses. |
metaphorical | spread | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19061 | This problem has spread to the UK. | In the past two months, doctors at the Regional Addiction Treatment Unit in Birmingham have come across five patients addicted to crack. |
|
metaphorical | bear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
94,
98
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1818 | Ann Maguire had borne a second Joanne, in New Zealand, from where she had returned, unable to bear cultural transplantation. | People had been shocked, by numbers as well as by gratuitous death itself, as people will be, and Mrs Maguire's sister and a friend had founded the Peace People, whose brave beginning and sad end will not be chronicled here. | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People. |
literal | result | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
82,
88
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16277 | Related to this problem is that of making population estimates for new zones that result from overlay operations. | We may want to count numbers living within plumes, circles of fixed radius, buffer zones and so on. |
|
literal | book | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
47
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2167 | These are so popular that you will need to book at least a couple of months in advance. | The hotel lies in five acres of fields and garden, and the Slingos, who own it, make the most of their beautiful surroundings by running painting courses for about Β£200 a week (including breakfast and dinner), or Β£90 for a long weekend. | The other great joy of Dedham Hall is the food. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10689 | How did you know before you touch the piano? | ||
metaphorical | mounted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
78,
85
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13323 | The 63-year-old head of Pembridge Investments, through which the bid is being mounted says, β rule number one in this business is: the more luxurious the luncheon rooms at headquarters, the more inefficient the business β. | If he had taken his own rule seriously, he would have found out that DRG has a very modest self-service canteen at its Bristol head office. |
|
literal | phoning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14247 | Yes but I remember, I can remember Edith phoning me and, and saying, you know she was going away, you know is, you know could I go down? | Mm. | And I said yes. |
literal | become | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1909 | Within the new Germany, many of them have become frightened. | Others returned to the jobs they had before the war. | Their secrets are no longer safe. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7920 | Can I go on there? | ||
literal | calculating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
250,
261
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2582 | 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. | 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. | From the party viewpoint Law's methods were successful but dangerous; expectations raised when the party was in full cry were not easily set aside for an eventual compromise, and the only outcome that would fully vindicate the methods was the recovery of power. |
metaphorical | felt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
40
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6485 | But it really hit her this year, we felt quite disgruntled | ||
literal | included | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9863 | This included deciding between day care or school, and parents' attitudes to different options. | Discussion of services to individual children also took place. | Often a member of the group was delegated to advise parents on a course of action. |
metaphorical | administered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
83,
95
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.862 | The 1970s β Urban Programme β had a social, rather than economic, emphasis and was administered by the Home Office. | Despite the contemporary tone of much of Action for Cities, the programme's heritage can be traced to the early 1960s studies which provided the basis for the 1965 MilnerβHolland Report on housing and the 1967 Plowden Report on education, as a result of which general improvement areas and education priority areas were established. | It was initiated partly in response to the furore caused by Enoch Powell's 1969 β rivers of blood β speech, much as disturbances at the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival prompted further steps on the part of the Department of the Environment β β A riot makes a much bigger impact on government thinking β, as Donnison (1987) has pointed out, β than any amount of earnest and accurate research β. |
literal | drove | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5463 | On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr's Cottage. | Almost certainly the eldest child β Theresa, wasn't it? β had been taught not to accept lifts from strangers, particularly men, and he was virtually a stranger. | This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor. |
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22242 | You want to plant them, you can help me plant them cos you'll be around |
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