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metaphorical | threatening | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20867 | Wearing jeans and a blue shirt, she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her. | He stopped at the door and smiled at her. | She looked about sixteen and beautiful. |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13019 | What do you mean? | ||
literal | review | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
64,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16370 | Greenberg (1983) and a collection of papers in Greenberg (1987) review some of the literature on environmental epidemiology. | It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed. |
|
metaphorical | looks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
99,
104
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12192 | Fortunately, Leinster's front five, which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald, looks upto the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks. | However, real problems may arise once Leinster attempt to win the loose ball. |
|
metaphorical | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8423 | You're going to an awful lot of trouble for me love. | Yes. | |
literal | happened | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9203 | Second, just as Dear's image of a few hundred β young black criminals β was used to explain what happened in Handsworth, the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level. | First, it distanced the riots from the social, economic, political, and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the β social problems β of inner-city dwellers and in the β simple greed β of the drug barons to accumulate β loot β. | The issue of drugs provided an everyday image, already a national issue through saturation media coverage and public debate, around which the police, the Home Office, and other institutions could depoliticize the riots. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
124,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8055 | Only thus, only by pretending unreality, pretending this was a part he acted, could he go on, cross the wild, shaggy grass, go past the black-branched cedar tree, arrive at the porch set in its four Doric columns and insert his key in the lock. | He found himself encouraging, fostering, the scenario illusion. | |
metaphorical | Catching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.31 | Catching up with what they thought they'd lost . β | β All they're after is their youth. | |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18115 | β I cannot honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . β | It seemed strange to make that argument, Mr Cook said, when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground. | |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17631 | Going to see to see ghosts | ||
literal | keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
98,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10377 | At present, the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods. | Should those decisions not be taken by the courts, in the same way as other sentencing decisions? |
|
literal | refuse | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15762 | Ellen asked before I could refuse to answer. | β How many passengers? β | |
literal | neglected | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13593 | In any practical situation this pressure is small and can be neglected when calculating the forces on current-carrying conductors. | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure (see Example 3.2). | |
metaphorical | secure | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17576 | β Help me secure the stairs behind us, β he snapped at Lawton, β as much as we can . β | ||
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17336 | That's a really wicked thing to say, he went, no it's not it's bad, it's not wicked. | He thinks of wicked as being good, he doesn't, cause Mandy says wicked. |
|
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8274 | How much was he going to tell her? | What was he going to tell Anne? | He didn't know. |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12405 | She made a kind of progress up the Palladian marble stair. | A painter stopped to kiss her: a journalist waved. |
|
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17738 | 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 | suffered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19579 | A key aspect of the 1977 White Paper was the stress it placed on the wider effects of poverty: that it was not just those with acute needs who suffered. | It argued that in talking about inner cities it was vital to think in terms not just of individuals, but of society; that the multiple deprivations of the worst hit areas affected all the residents; that the consequences included a pervasive sense of neglect and decay, a decline in community spirit, a low standard of neighbourhood facilities, and an increase in crime and vandalism; and that, without government intervention, the future was one of reduced job opportunities, deteriorating housing, and a decline in public services. |
|
literal | rejoicing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15840 | β She adaws Bangladesh, β gushed Rytasha's mother β the fiercest matron of them all, rejoicing in the improbable title of Baroness Thea von Theilheimer Shenkman. | She went on to list her daughter's achievements: β She put in an irritation system β¦ |
|
metaphorical | slicing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18725 | Existing GIS techniques usually base the estimates on area-weighted shares, so that a new polygon created by β slicing β an existing area in half is assigned half the population of that source unit. | We may want to count numbers living within plumes, circles of fixed radius, buffer zones and so on. | This may be quite absurd in some cases, notably where population is spatially clustered within a physically large ED. |
metaphorical | transposed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21178 | The Elle feature transposed the β Kahlo style β to Kahlo lookalikes in contemporary clothing balanced around segments of Herrera's biography of the artist. | It is primarily her appearance, not the formal language of her art, that has graced the pages of Elle and Vogue magazines. | In the later Vogue piece only the style remained as the far more overtly sexual, Kahloesque models lounged and pouted in their β Mexican β interiors. |
metaphorical | strike | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19455 | That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially? | Would it be right, then, to confine the fault element in murder to an intent to kill? | There are powerful arguments in favour of saying that there are other killings where an intent to kill cannot be established, and yet where the moral or social culpability is equal to that in most intentional killings. |
literal | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18014 | Because of this, he had never seen the Oxford and Cambridge boat race until this year. | In spite of his gift to the sport, Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited. | He was enthralled by the entire proceeding and remarked that only the English could make a contest between two crews which would not rank in the World's top 10 into a bigger spectacle than the Olympic final. |
metaphorical | lying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12312 | Having put the cat among the pigeons, made mischief in his special way, he was lying low now and waiting. | His own terrible fear and anger had communicated itself to his father and shown him what the better part of valour was: keeping silent. | The old bastard. |
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22645 | We went to Tesco to buy some milk. | ||
literal | exclaimed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5993 | β But we leave tomorrow! β she exclaimed. | ||
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7606 | β Oh, this will be of great help in ordering raw materials, but sometimes we get part deliveries, could we have an extra facility to deal with those? | Once the user becomes familiar with the proposed system, helpful comments come thick and fast. | And sometimes non-standard discount is given, a pig to deal with on the old system, but if you could add one extra input box on that screen there β¦ |
literal | park | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14057 | You just park in the road or? | allocated parking. | |
literal | invited | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10214 | In spite of his gift to the sport, Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited. | The sport is now obliged to find income from the more normal sources of television and sponsorship, to replace his largely unacknowledged private patronage. | Because of this, he had never seen the Oxford and Cambridge boat race until this year. |
literal | lying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12316 | It's fantastic, John, there she is, a new person, lying on her face, sound asleep. | Actually a very big girl as these things go, nine pounds. | I've just left them and I'm going back . β |
literal | called | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2617 | He called Patty to him. | After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it, following the horses whom he could still see in the distance. | She didn't come, which was surprising; she was a docile creature and particularly devoted to him because he always took her for a walk when he was at the stables. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10772 | I know. | ||
literal | issuing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10309 | The consequences for some nations or subgroups in a population of being without access to environmental data or the tools for analysing them while others have such access are potentially profound β as the European Commission has recognized in issuing a directive on public access to environmental data (CEC 1990d) β yet space limitations have also precluded their discussion. | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK (as elsewhere) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments. | Despite these shortcomings dictated by the space available, what has been said should be sufficient to illustrate the enormous and diverse scope of environmental monitoring and prediction. |
literal | chop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3160 | The one with you chop the chop and then there will be squares | ||
metaphorical | support | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19704 | So in the supply of information to newspapers predisposed to support the party, much was achieved merely by employing a specialist. | The other side of press management, depending on informal contacts, is less easy to assess. |
|
literal | seem | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17869 | I think it was about last week's, but they seem to imply that it was last week's episode that would | ||
literal | cope | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4167 | In addition, the police were well prepared, stimulated largely by implementing a plan designed more to cope with an emergency at the nearby Toronto International Airport than for the event in question. | Despite this, the evacuation was successful, partly because the accident occurred at a weekend and the immediately affected area was sparsely populated. | |
metaphorical | discussed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5144 | Murder, manslaughter, and several other offences are discussed, and one recurrent issue here is whether English law responds proportionately to the different degrees of culpability manifested in cases where death is caused. | This chapter deals with the approach of the criminal law to behaviour which causes or risks causing death. | |
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20801 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures, Rufus thought, and a couple of weeks later it was all over. | Coincidentally, as the community and their lives together broke up, so did the weather. |
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literal | influence | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10004 | In the USA at least, there needs to be an improvement in scientists' understandings of how to influence the allocation of funding for remedial measures or for further research (see Kitsos and Ashe 1989). | However, perhaps most critical of all in the early stages is social science practice rather than research. | All too often, it seems that the coupling of an as yet imperfect scientific understanding to policy-making is tenuous (see Table 9.2). |
metaphorical | observe | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13687 | The basic social contract, whereby citizens enjoy certain rights β including health care, decent education and housing and a job β in return for which they observe the rule of law, was breaking down. | As a consequence an underclass was evolving β football hooligans, muggers, inner city rioters β somewhat more frightening than their Dickensian forebears because they were mobile and all too visible. |
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literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20631 | So I, I think really, and I think what I think with him, I think definitely I think it must be the private scheme and plus that his own family, it runs in the family. | No. | |
literal | breasting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2313 | To the north the broken arches and stumps of the ruined Benedictine abbey gleamed golden in the afternoon sun against the crinkled blue of the sea and, breasting a small ridge, he glimpsed for the first time the topsail of Larksoken Mill and beyond it, against the skyline, the great grey bulk of Larksoken Nuclear power Station. | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox, undemolished since the war, and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave -battered concrete, remnants of the old fortifications which lay half -submerged in the sand along part of the beach. | The road he was on, veering left, would lead eventually to the station but was, he knew, seldom used since normal traffic and all heavy vehicles used the new access road to the north. |
literal | talking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20210 | Look at me when you're talking to me I can't hear you. | Pardon? | |
metaphorical | sell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
133,
137
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18144 | Party organisers want the conference to show that the party is united as never before, leaving Mr Kinnock free for the first time to sell the policy package to voters without worrying about splits. | Mr Kinnock intends to reinforce his conviction that Labour is in a position to win in his keynote speech tomorrow. | There is expected to be a close vote on defence, but Mr Kinnock is confident the new policy will be affirmed today. |
metaphorical | felt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6493 | He felt guilty towards the child who had not survived, for whom he had been named. | Or you could make a Freudian explanation. | He had been born on March 30th 1853. |
literal | provide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14956 | If the current density is specified, eqn (3.11) will provide the solution for A from which B can be determined. | So we are left with eqn (3.11). | How can we find a solution for A? |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16714 | He went down the airless corridor to his Boss's office, said hello to the secretary, and walked into the large oak-panelled room which was as big as the lobby of many a sizeable hotel. | The next day Mark arrived back at UM's European headquarters in London and received an early call from Muldoon. | |
literal | sleep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18713 | I sleep better | I'm more comfortable here than I am on holiday. | |
metaphorical | bred | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2322 | In addition, the question whether the cultures and values of the black communities, their family structures, and their political attitudes β bred violence β was constantly raised (van Dijk, 1988). | After Handsworth part of the press response was to blame the riot on rivalry between West Indians and Asians, and even after the arguments were criticized by local residents; and community leaders, they were used to β explain β' what happened. | |
literal | developed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4993 | Some integrated services emerged in the early 1980s β one playscheme was developed through a parent's initiative, and an integrated adventure playground was established by a voluntary organisation. | Workers from the integrated playscheme subsequently supported a local special school in integrating under fives into a playgroup. |
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literal | decide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4535 | It is difficult to decide when you are an outsider what the business is like. | β That point about the core business is very unfair, β he says. | We would eventually like to do it along with the management, within the philosophy we will impose . β |
metaphorical | bound | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2282 | The Home Office is not bound by those opinions, and appears to depart from them frequently. | In procedural terms, therefore, the life sentence involves a transfer of function: normally it is the judge who determines the sentence (or at least its upper limit, since earlier release on parole may be possible), whereas a life sentence entrusts that function to the executive, who must first ascertain the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge. | In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers, terrorist killings, murder during robbery, and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children, fixing a minimum of twenty years' imprisonment for these offenders. |
literal | running | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16551 | Well I just kind of was running round the shop because I was | ||
literal | lived | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11896 | For many years Thomson lived in New York in his apartment at the Chelsea Hotel. | From there, like a buzzard in its eyrie, he would make forays round the US and abroad in spite of his advanced age. |
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literal | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7793 | When the cases of laryngeal cancer are compared with a null distribution (provided by the distribution of much more common lung cancer) the hypothesis is given strong support. | Such a link is provided by the Central Postcode Directory, which matches all 1.5 million unit postcodes in the UK to grid references. | Although the proposed method is novel, it is but one of an increasingly large number of methods designed to detect and model β clusters β of disease (see, for example, Cuzick and Edwards 1990). |
literal | denounced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4716 | Meanwhile bad housing, bad sanitation, lack of education, and other perennial ills associated with overcrowding and poverty have been routinely denounced by political leaders and social reformers. | The inner city has been variously regarded as a cause for moral outrage, a threat to public order, or as a stain on the nation's conscience. | |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7471 | You don't get nothing on them chickens? | ||
literal | pick | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14253 | Difficult to pick up this isn't it? | Mm. | |
literal | smiled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18776 | She smiled shyly, then turned away. | As they descended the stairs, Delaney paused, and took a last look down at her. | |
metaphorical | preserved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14683 | The sediments themselves may have preserved some of the tracks left by the animal (p. 20) to give direct evidence of its past activities. | The type of sediment and the associated fossils will show whether the environment was marine, freshwater or terrestrial, providing the basic information into which the ecology of the animal has to be accommodated. | From the tracks alone it is possible to be certain of the bipedal stance of certain dinosaurs, and to measure their stride. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10849 | No, well I don't know, he might be. | I don't know whether he's going to that, he might be but this was, this, he was up sort of seeing, meeting all the Labour Party candidates for the north west. |
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metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12523 | Her priorities include giving more encouragement to medical research; emphasis on preventive health to make the NHS a β health as well as a sickness service β, with the publication shortly of new national targets for reducing deaths from heart disease and cancers; and pressing ahead with care in the community. | ||
literal | faced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6245 | Back in the wheelhouse, Delaney faced them. | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10845 | No, I reckon, there was, they reckon between a, a thousand and eleven hundred for a night, you know. | But you couldn't fucking move at that. |
|
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7379 | Of course he could look up Robin Tatian but where, really, would that get him? | Women marry and change their names, he thought, there was no point in pursuing that one. | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms, so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her. |
literal | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20954 | One Afro-Caribbean woman described how she felt that she was never given a choice of provision for her son, and objected to being told he should be in a specialist nursery for his own good. | Many commented on lack of information about the range of facilities on offer. | She fought hard to get him a part-time playgroup place in the group his older brother attended. |
literal | clipped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3250 | He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function, and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move. | He stopped on the embankment, shaking with cold and shock, to note the spot, then fled along the tractor paths, the dog running with him, to the stables where the ten o'clock children's ride was in its closing stages. |
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metaphorical | deal | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4498 | Steel-Maitland, Boraston, Jenkins and Fraser made up a team of experts, all of sufficient status to deal with politicians who might call into the office; the work of the office was departmentalized for the first time and the heads of department brought together into a supervising board. | Finally, Malcolm Fraser, ex-editor of the Standard and of the Daily Express became first honorary press adviser and subsequently was employed to run the press bureau at the colossal salary of Β£1,200. | The influence of Central Office toned up the rest of the organization. |
literal | begin | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1978 | I had to paint the gashes as soon as possible so that rust would not begin to bite into Wavebreaker's long sleekness. | Wavebreaker's hull was made of steel and, while such hulls are marvellously strong and safe, they are soon weakened if their steel is exposed to salt air. | |
metaphorical | running | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
62
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16530 | Colin Pavey of British Telecom hopes that they will be running by the end of the year. | β Two would be business -orientated and three would be community-orientated and located in schools. |
|
literal | proved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
43
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14934 | Instead, for a number of reasons, it proved to be a key step in the development of the debate about integration in Islington. | This might have had the effect of drawing families into the specialist system at an earlier stage. | |
literal | considered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
135,
145
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3932 | Brief reference to two examples of natural hazards may illustrate the potential relevance of a GIS approach, applications of which are considered below. | Jones et al. (1989) have examined the distribution of some 8500 landslides in the UK. |
|
literal | work | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
124,
128
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22872 | Rather he is informed about the situation and the purpose of informing him is to provide a knowledge base from which he can work out his own actions. | As instructional material it is indirect in that the reader is not necessarily told what to do, as in a routine. | Nevertheless, the relevant action remains important and the knowledge provided should be carefully and stringently selected. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16709 | He said: β I don't think death was ever terrible to her. | Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence. | I'm not sure that I really knew her and I'm left wishing I'd tried harder. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
104,
109
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20636 | So there was, Grizel Huntley acknowledged, and it would be a great deal better if Penny could manage to think a bit more positively. | β I'm sorry you're disappointed, β she had said to Penelope, β but after all there's a lot of money, quite enough for both of us . β | |
literal | leave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11447 | β Maybe we should leave two of us here? β | ||
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17705 | Mm cos she'll see you there. | ||
metaphorical | lost | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
144,
148
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12261 | The National Council for Voluntary Organizations (NCVO) has suggested from a recent survey that around 3,000 projects had been affected and had lost Β£285 million in funding (MacGregor, 1990). | However, the later withdrawal of government support, with the scrapping of the Community Programme as unemployment receded, left many of these voluntary organizations high and dry. | |
metaphorical | felt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6473 | After they'd gone, Forster felt the silence physically settle around him. | He'd never been one to exercise an over- imagination, yet the conditions were like the feeling of a tomb β of an interment. |
|
literal | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
68,
74
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21388 | A shadow fell across the wall opposite, as slowly, and fearfully he turned. | ||
metaphorical | covering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
44,
52
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4306 | For a formal, universal information system, covering local and specialist resources. | ||
literal | jammed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10316 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens, but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut's tottering gable end, and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway. | ||
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
89,
94
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20727 | β We wouldn't want to stint ourselves, β Mark said facetiously, β four or five, I should think β¦ . β | ||
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8112 | They claim to see each other less than couples who go out to work, meeting for the occasional cup of coffee in the kitchen. | Given the importance they place on the interrelationship of words and pictures, the couple's working lives are surprisingly separate. | |
literal | continued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
181,
190
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4066 | I put his age at forty, but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome, and he knew it, for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen's hand, and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away. | His long black hair was tied into its ponytail with a velvet ribbon, his skin was parchment pale, and his eyes dark. | |
literal | stayed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
86
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19265 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him, though she had stayed awake for a long time, listening for the sound of the horses, the carriage wheels on the drive. | Next morning Ruth was down in the kitchen early, eagerly hoping to find Sean there. | |
literal | inflicted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
83,
92
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9999 | 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 | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
72,
76
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17103 | β We've had more paperwork, not less, since the trust took over, β Buzz said tartly. | β And I tell you frankly that I can't follow it, Adam. |
|
literal | reached | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15425 | Grizel Huntley reached out to comfort her but she forced back her chair and fled, clutching her handbag and napkin, leaving her mother with the ruins of lunch. | Penelope choked on her pudding and started to cry, angry, uncontrollable tears. | |
metaphorical | defended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4619 | He successfully defended rowing as an Olympic sport and in 1976 introduced women's events, which have now expanded to six classes. | These positions were not held for his own status but to promote the cause of rowing where it needed clout. | |
literal | buy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
92,
95
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2547 | Though there was a lot to do, Clare, busy redecorating the shop and visiting wholesalers to buy stock, still managed to work one evening a week for the Movement. | Two weeks later, Clare bought the short lease of a small shop in the Pimlico Road, close to Mrs Gooden's home. | |
literal | manage | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
59,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12720 | They hired the first agent, β Digs β, of Oxford Street, to manage as well as to let their flat. | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months, then nothing for four months, and were told the computer was broken, the accounts were being moved, the cheque was in the post, and so on. |
|
metaphorical | stumbling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
36
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19515 | They didn't want the Yanks stumbling in and screwing up in an attempt to force the issue. | Don't ratify any names. | |
literal | work | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22841 | GIS work in this field (e.g. Matthews 1989) is reviewed later, but we note here the work of the applied geochemistry group at Imperial College (responsible for a series of atlases on regional geochemistry) and the existence of a Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. | There seems to be a growing interest in examining associations between ill health and the geological environment. | One area of recent debate concerns radon gas and its links to lung cancer. |
literal | occupy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
57
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13721 | Certainly my son never let it or allowed anyone to occupy it on either a temporary or permanent basis. | β I suppose it is possible that squatters or other vagrants took possession of the house between the time of my uncle's death and the sale of the property. | |
metaphorical | appear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
92,
98
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1211 | Since we have so many variables, and since in each physical configuration only some of them appear, we will record (just for this chapter) the non-zero variables in each section heading. | ||
metaphorical | hold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
38,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9552 | 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. | Meanwhile, there were other incentive schemes β Enterprise Zones, for example, and simplified Planning Zones, which aimed to lift tax and planning β barriers β in order to facilitate investment. | 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. |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
176,
181
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8244 | And this man came to the door, and he went to get the belt, that should just have a tape recorder on conversation just throughout the week so it's getting all sorts of rubbish going in there, |
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