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literal | mitigate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13275 | Identify broad social strategies to prevent or mitigate undesirable impacts of global change or to adapt to changes which are unavoidable; | ||
literal | resolve | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
368,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16231 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers, which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare, with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty, divorce, or bereavement; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful, although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety. | ||
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8836 | Walks into the bedroom, well you would have hardly got the bed in there never mind about anything else. | I thought oh well this is lovely. | And er there was a hand basin in there and when you went into |
metaphorical | missed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13250 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West, including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany. | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10854 | Not that this is any excuse, John, I do know . β | β The difficulty is that Perry does everything that bit better than Tristram. | He paused, reminding McLeish irresistibly of a Labrador wondering how best to approach an acquaintance. |
metaphorical | grew | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9033 | Then knightly armour grew more elaborate and costly throughout the century. | The treaty between Robert II of Flanders and Henry I of England, renewed by their successors, stipulated that each knight supplied to the English king should bring three horses with him β this at a time when a horse represented a major investment. | 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. |
literal | Wondering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.603 | Wondering what the hell he's upto. | Here's us, heading for trouble and God knows what else, and in the middle of you talking about Nordhausen, I start thinking of Peter. | The emotional mind of a woman . β |
metaphorical | introduce | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10160 | Drinks exercises introduce the notion of measurement, concentration of alcohol content; information which will be necessary to carry out the recording of alcohol consumption throughout the duration of the course (p. 3). | ||
literal | agreed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.966 | As for his colleagues, Mr Smith said: β We're all agreed that we cannot spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it. | That will be the guiding light of the next Labour government. |
|
literal | freckled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7050 | It was too large for her and the wide sleeves of limp cotton hung from her freckled arms like rags thrown over a stick. | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital. | In contrast to his sisters, Anthony was over -clad, a bundle of leggings, jumper and a padded jacket topped with a woollen helmet with a bobble pulled well down over his forehead, beneath which he surveyed their busyness, unsmiling, like a stout imperious Caesar. |
metaphorical | rising | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
121,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16422 | He was a skilful lover: tender and gentle in the beginning, then powerful, persistent, rough almost β until, his passion rising in harmony with hers, the climax came like the bursting of a thousand stars, like the beginning and ending of the world. | ||
metaphorical | accentuating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.633 | the encouragement of private investment and the liberation of the market; the containment of the forces of social discontent; the control of the powers of the local authorities; and the encouragement of the movement of the wealthy into the inner city thus creating buffer areas of Tory support, accentuating inequalities and injustice and (hopefully though not necessarily) reducing the potential for conflict among the urban poor. | ||
literal | relate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15843 | The possibilities sketched above relate to emergency planning, the search for hazardous sites, and risk assessment. | To what extent can GIS help if an event occurs? |
|
literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8473 | But as they do, it's gonna hit her cos it's not year that it doesn't help, see if she's in a third year class, she was always as she is now, in the top of that, but even | ||
literal | shook | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18419 | She told Delaney, who shook his head with revulsion. | ||
metaphorical | changed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3059 | β I've changed my mind, β she said. | β I would like some breakfast. |
|
literal | devised | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5020 | A new Urban Development Grant was devised, to pump-prime with public funds schemes which would then attract private investment. | Partnership became his slogan β the partnership of public and private brains and money. | Heseltine's vision was of β partnerships which recognise that there are some things that only governments can pay for, but also that the ingenuity and flexibility of the private sector is indispensable β (p. 156). |
metaphorical | rule | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16491 | This furthered his long-term ambition to rule a large β south Slav β kingdom when the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed. | Nicholas was known as β the uncle of Europe β for his success in marrying his beautiful but penniless daughters into the grander royal houses of Russia, Serbia and Italy. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17047 | β It's just that there really is trouble at t'mill, β she said quietly. | β That's it, isn't it? |
|
literal | read | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15471 | and read newspapers no thank you. | Oh! |
|
metaphorical | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7743 | Henning Albrechsten says: β Modern information technology has given people in remote regions the opportunity to overcome their worst handicap; their distance from the centres of learning and development . β | Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office. | |
metaphorical | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19912 | Don't take that the wrong way. | We've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I've been bitten by bugs in a hooker's bed, tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair, stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin. | But James Bond would've handled it differently . β |
literal | persuaded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14218 | He even persuaded 12 European powers to turn cottages into full embassies. | In his minute, inaccessible capital, which today has only 15,000 inhabitants, Nicholas erected a miniature European court and an exquisitely furnished Victorian palace. | |
metaphorical | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20960 | She repeatedly phoned Landlords, but was either unable to get an answer or told that manager Howard Keizner was unavailable. | Finally, after the third month passed with no rent received, Debbie phoned the tenants, asked them to pay her directly, and sent Landlords a recorded-delivery letter, which was returned, and finally one by ordinary post stating that Landlords were no longer employed as the managing agents. |
|
metaphorical | passed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14083 | Well over half an hour had passed. | Satisfied that everything was as it should be, he checked his watch. | They ought to be near him soon. |
literal | breathe | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2319 | β Good God, Wyvis Hall, as I live and breathe . β | ||
literal | need | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13581 | β I don't think this joker is going to need much encouragement . β | ||
literal | shop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18428 | β I was stood outside me shop all night, and most were no more than kids . β | β And there were never more than a few dozen ringleaders, β Bob Mather, a local butcher, tells me. | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11039 | and it does mean that they can relax you know about work and everything | ||
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20781 | I thought it was lovely of him! | Twin room. | |
literal | defining | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4639 | Definitions of β special needs β varied widely in the questionnaire responses β some defining it as children with disabilities, some including children with behavioural and emotional problems and some including children whose first language was not English. | This made the survey difficult to interpret. |
|
literal | administer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.860 | 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. |
metaphorical | ring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16403 | Someone might ring . β | β I don't want to go out, Frank. | Sarah Morgan was sounding diffident but resolute, and as Morgan opened his mouth to protest in exasperation the doorbell rang. |
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11694 | I like and the others. | Well, I'm not a cider expert. | I really liked it. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7940 | Enough enough, do you want to go buy some Polo? | ||
metaphorical | move | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13329 | At a time when the Home Secretary is inviting the Probation Service to β move centre stage in the Criminal Justice System β (NACRO, 1990, p. 17) it may seem misguided and unnecessarily pedantic to take issue with the White Paper's notion of punishment. | Punishment is just a word after all: nothing more than convenient political rhetoric meriting only lip - service from probation managers and practitioners poised at the β window of opportunity β. |
|
literal | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21399 | Gently they swooped, turned, and climbed in the azure sky. | As the Rallye droned towards the lighthouse on the tip of Cap Camerat, Miranda felt as if she were breathing the air of the gods. | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10662 | Don't know what she was looking at. | She kept looking over there. | What were you looking at? |
literal | permitted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14203 | 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. | Each WRA is required to produce a waste disposal plan and these are starting to appear. | 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. |
metaphorical | broken | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2398 | 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. | ||
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7971 | I knew you wanted to see how far you could go . β | β She was in hospital for six weeks, and I was the only one who knew it wasn't an accident. | |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8357 | 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 | written | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23066 | This was written at the NWRRL using FORTRAN 77 and the Graphical Kernel System. | The police required a portable system that could be implemented on an IBM-compatible microcomputer. | The GIS is menu-based and is exceptionally user-friendly (Pl. 10.1). |
metaphorical | launched | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11271 | Paradise, launched on CBS last season and shown on BBC1 this summer, was the first new western serial for a decade. | There are encouraging signs, however, that the TV western is struggling back into the saddle. | It was the only new drama series in US network TV to be allowed a second series this year, despite a relatively lowly 49th ranking in the ratings. |
literal | ceases | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2999 | I expect that for an ornithologist death ceases to be terrible once sight and hearing begin to go. | She walked out with him to the car and said: β I was sorry about your aunt β sorry for you, I mean. | And to die in one's sleep without distress to oneself or inconvenience to others is an enviable end. |
literal | describes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4840 | Harrison describes (p. 369) the way in which the inner urban powder-keg leads to a vicious circle, with many victims, but few individual villains: | Paul Harrison's Inside the Inner City: Life under the Cutting Edge focused on Hackney, a London borough ranked among the worst off on any scale of urban deprivation (Harrison, 1983). | The police force face the virtually impossible task of keeping the lid on the explosive mixture of ingredients that the dynamics of British society have assembled in the inner city . This mixture, heated by recession and high unemployment, inevitably generates a high level of crime . This necessitates, in turn, a far more numerous and ubiquitous police presence than in other kinds of area, far more frequent unpleasant contact with the public as potential suspects, and far greater opportunities for police misjudgment or abuse. |
literal | saying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17401 | In a takeover campaign that has already seen vitriolic language, he responds to the charge that he is mounting the bid to enrich himself and his friends by saying: β Nobody could take that as a criticism β this is an investor group. | And there is always the ultimate unbundler's defence β that he will make money for his backers. | It would be a criticism if I was doing it to impoverish myself β. |
literal | mind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13218 | 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. |
metaphorical | keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
44,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10412 | This is why you know, I, I think you should keep I keep diaries from years ago because I know you don't like nostalgia, and I don't, but it's interesting | Yeah about twenty. | |
metaphorical | Go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.199 | Go on then! | Go and play! | No! |
metaphorical | lay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11301 | 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 only house to his left was the old Victorian rectory, a square, red-brick building, incongruous behind its struggling hedge of rhododendron and laurel. | 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. |
literal | driving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5434 | Once free of the knotted tentacles of the eastern suburbs, Dalgliesh made good time and by three he was driving through Lydsett village. | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds, their lumbered heads straining in the wind. |
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literal | Put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.394 | Put your arm in. | ||
metaphorical | shuts | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18582 | A wall β also red-ochre β shuts off the view, and is topped only by a violet and yellow-ochre hill. | These high trees stand out against an evening sky with violet stripes on a yellow ground, which higher up turns into pink, into green. | Now the nearest tree is an enormous trunk, struck by lightning and sawed-off. |
metaphorical | find | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6604 | That I find a little bit hard to believe. | Yeah exactly, yes. | One minute he was shall we say in Arford, next minute woof, he'd shot to Johnston through somebody's window? |
metaphorical | takes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20078 | 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? |
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literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22127 | I want that as well. | ||
literal | please | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14444 | Yes please. | Yes just in case. |
|
literal | increasing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9954 | Scientists have both promoted and responded to the increasing interest in the environment. | Thus, at the global scale, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project (IGBP) to β describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system, the unique environment it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions β (Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986, quoted in IGBP 1988). |
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literal | heard | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9335 | He gave not the slightest sign of having heard her, continuing to stroke her neck, and now inserting his fingers under the neckline of her nightshift. | She tried again to push him away. |
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literal | worried | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22975 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary, indeed is even vital, the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important: the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level! | Yet, as we shall see below, the prediction of the activities of natural and man-influenced environmental systems requires an understanding of the interaction of processes that, in many cases, we simply do not yet have. |
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literal | touching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21137 | Manly and rather touching. | His speech was one of the best things I have heard. | The country gentleman at his best. |
literal | please | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14439 | Water please. | She doesn't want you to change her nappy does she? | Right, let's go and see if these chicken things are ready. |
literal | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15138 | And I said, well I'll put it back in the fridge and she said no, she said take it home she said | ||
literal | establish | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5900 | Mrs Bottomley, representing β caring Conservatism β, will face Mr Michael Portillo, the new Treasury Chief Secretary, who is equally keen to establish his Right-wing credentials by demonstrating he can keep keep a tight grip on the public purse strings. | ||
literal | revamped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16346 | they re, revamped it or whatever. | ||
literal | remains | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15913 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path, I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd's hut built into one wall. | Large boulders stood out beside the path as grey blobs in the featureless sheets of pale grass, and flat stones had been placed as bridges across the burns, their backs hollowed by the tread of feet through the centuries. | |
metaphorical | helps | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9492 | Experience with practical calculations helps, but even after years of work one usually remains this side of infallibility. | It's hard to tell. | I regret to say that there are no general guidelines available. |
metaphorical | caught | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2925 | We caught the bus back to Ellen's apartment and collected her clothes and notebooks. | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day's early departure. |
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literal | wondered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22805 | The room, which contained nothing superfluous, nothing pretentious, was both pleasing and extraordinarily comforting and, for a moment, he wondered why. | Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun. | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough, the soft ticking of the wall- mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall, the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door, the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs, the open hearth? |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8853 | Well it's good good, got a well lagged tank. | ||
literal | shrugged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18562 | He shrugged. | Forster was a fatalist. | You could be James Bond, he thought, but if something had your number on it β¦ |
metaphorical | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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105
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20968 | 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. | They hired the first agent, β Digs β, of Oxford Street, to manage as well as to let their flat. | |
literal | appeared | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1225 | No one appeared as he drew up and, before lifting his hand to the bell, he paused to read the words of a stone plaque embedded in the flints to the right of the door. | It was a substantial, two-storey, L-shaped house standing to the east of the track with walls partly flint and partly rendered, enclosing at the rear a courtyard of York stone which gave an uninterrupted view over fifty yards of scrub to the grassy dunes and the sea. | In a cottage on this site lived Agnes Poley, Protestant martyr, burned at Ipswich, 15th August 1557, aged 32 years . Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 15. |
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
57
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8993 | β We accept that we could lose the money we've paid to go to auction, but that's a risk we're prepared to take, β says Julie Widlake. | ||
literal | thought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
223,
230
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20800 | In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor's notes (Menary, 1986) by the explanation: β This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past β (p. 3). | Although summarized as an alcohol education course, the sessions are not just concerned with giving information but also with enabling participants to make practical use of it. | During this session the importance of monitoring is also emphasized: |
literal | find | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
67,
71
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6594 | Next morning Ruth was down in the kitchen early, eagerly hoping to find Sean there. | 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. |
|
literal | achieve | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
59,
66
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.720 | We will tackle putting our economy in order so that we can achieve that social ambition, so that the strong economy is used to finance and develop the fair society . β | But it will not mean that we are abandoning them. | |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
10,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8388 | We're not going in the car are we? | ||
literal | lauded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11255 | Conservatives have always lauded the β voluntarist β principle in welfare, and encouraged it from platforms. | One of the most bizarre aspects of government policy has been the effective murder of the voluntary sector, and its appropriation, by subterfuge, into the Tory version of the corporate state. | Faced, however, with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them (which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place), the Government poured money into any β voluntary β agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour. |
metaphorical | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
52,
58
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21428 | The faces of the twins, softer editions of her own, turned towards her questioningly then broke into shy smiles. | She reminded him of pictures of the young Elizabeth Tudor, the same red- gold hair framing a curiously adult face both secretive and self-composed, the same sharp nose and wary eyes. | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland, even in a warm autumn. |
literal | swap | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19824 | want to swap it over | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10850 | No, well you know I bought | ||
metaphorical | allows | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1098 | 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. | |
literal | welcoming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
72,
81
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22541 | As President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei he had delivered the welcoming address on Tuesday to a symposium of scientists. | He kept regular hours in the university's physics building, spoke at scientific meetings this year in Moscow and Washington. | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift. |
literal | coded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
132,
137
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3287 | This system currently runs in dBASE II and contains in excess of 3000 items of professionally assessed information on major hazards coded into some 24 separate fields. | One well known database is Major Hazard Incident Data Service (MHIDAS) global industrial hazards database which is currently being developed by the Safety and Reliability Directorate on behalf of the Major Hazards Assessment Unit of the UK Health and Safety Directorate. | Unfortunately, the spatial referencing is poor and with some effort this could easily be remedied. |
literal | agreed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
199,
205
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.970 | In the eyes of the faithful, these β Brabanters β, with their freebooting and lack of discipline after the end of campaigns, were as dangerous as heretics; in 1171 Frederick Barbarossa and Louis VII agreed to expel them from their lands. | But they might have to be supplemented by mercenaries from Flanders and the Low Countries, where the rapidly expanding population forced large numbers of young men into military careers. | Their value in battle, as shields behind which the knights could shelter before they launched their charge, ensured their continued employment by those who could afford them β notably Henry II of England. |
metaphorical | keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10416 | Why they keep on making new bulbs? | ||
literal | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
28
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21392 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm, I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees. | Kielder Water is beautiful, and the Kielder trees formidably impressive in their domination of the hills. | |
literal | compared | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3703 | Seeds of Acer are rare compared with the leaves, which can be found in rocks dating back to the Cretaceous period. | Seeds of the maple family are typically in pairs, joined at the base, with flat β wings β that help the seeds to disperse. | This is from the Oeningen, Switzerland. |
literal | stated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19230 | However, Caithness himself stated that this first selection was β in no way a definitive list β¦ | I have no doubt that others will be added. |
|
metaphorical | release | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
79,
86
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15859 | Properties continued to shine as British Land produced a complicated scheme to release the value of its property portfolio. | British Land closed at 405p, a net gain of 48p. |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10735 | I know Alec has been there | ||
literal | join | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
57,
61
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10324 | I knew it was right for him β this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children. | No one told me about it, and no one wanted him to have it. | It doesn't matter that he's not like them. |
literal | remember | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15967 | I remember | I remember doing that once. | |
literal | blasted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2116 | I wouldn't mind if those blasted slightly longer life in terms of the music they played. | But unfortunately, you know, it's singing or whatever. |
|
literal | loved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
50
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12293 | Mrs Huntley sighed; her brother whom she had loved, but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault, had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth. | Penelope, however, it had to be acknowledged, had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle's will. |
|
literal | Hearing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.244 | Hearing the noise of the car she turned and he saw a peaked, delicate face framed with red-gold hair. | Ahead of him, trudging along on the left of the path, was a little group of children, the eldest girl wheeling a pushchair with two smaller children, one each side of her, clutching the bars. | He recognized the Blaney children, met once before with their mother walking along the beach. |
literal | conceived | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3781 | Law conceived of the role of the leader in an exactly opposite sense from Balfour: he sought to foster unity by placing himself at the head of the discordant elements where Balfour had thrown the leadership on the side of restraint. | Their respective positions explain this in part: as ex-Prime Minister and a considerable figure in his own right, Balfour had the confidence to believe in his own judgement even when isolated from the bulk of the party; as the tertium quid in the recent contest, Law had neither the weight nor the confidence to take such a detached view. |
|
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
28
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12064 | Forster frowned as he looked through his spy hole. | A sound. |
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