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literal | predating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14585 | Although predating the RRL initiative by several years β and, indeed the emergence of GIS as a major research area β we should remind ourselves of Openshaw's work on appraising nuclear reactor sites. | Using what would now be called GIS skills, Openshaw (1980) examined over 13 000 1 km grid squares in the UK which intersect the coastline and related these to data from the 1971 Census (which were made available for such grid squares). |
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literal | answer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1169 | The jury should answer this by drawing inferences from the evidence in the case and from the surrounding circumstances. | The question is: granted that D's purpose was to frighten, did he nonetheless realize that it was practically certain that his act would cause death or grievous bodily harm to someone? | |
literal | doa | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5254 | All the trouble, says Ronnie, is down to β a few families who doan't keep their young β uns in order. | Many, like Ronnie Collyer, a retired shipyard worker, still live here and are still proud of the place. | And then the media coom down and blow everything up . β |
metaphorical | makes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12631 | But isn't it true, this garden has a fantastic character which makes you quite able to imagine the poets of the Renaissance strolling among these bushes and over the flowery grass? β¦ | ||
metaphorical | produced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14812 | These ideas were informed by a paper which had already been produced by an active member of the local Mencap group, who had previously tried to generate the debate within the Community Health Service through the Mencap committee. | The findings were documented in a report A Place For All Our Children (CCUF 1983) and an analysis was prepared of the practical and bureaucratic problems in gaining an ordinary childcare place for a child with special needs, with suggestions for how these might be overcome. | |
literal | pull | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15062 | At Bridgend he looked in despair, and he almost admitted as much: β I hope we can pull it together but sometimes I have my doubts . β | His plans in ruins, he is now reduced, Micawber - like, to hoping something will turn up before his players face the All Blacks in five short weeks. | |
literal | paint | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14035 | To paint light and air between ourselves and objects. | " To paint, " she remembered from Proust's description of fictive Elstir, " that one does not see what one sees . " | " I said, dear, Winston Churchill β " The second woman tugged free of the clutching fingers. |
metaphorical | risks | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16428 | This chapter deals with the approach of the criminal law to behaviour which causes or risks causing death. | 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. |
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metaphorical | attack | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1663 | Arsenal had no choice but to attack as soon as the second half began. | A neat step-over by Rocastle sent Thomas hurtling in on goal but Rhodes moved sharply off his line to smother the shot. |
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literal | stood | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19347 | Sweetman stood. | There was, at last, a look of alarm on his face, and I could see him wondering whether he really would have to pull the small trigger. |
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literal | produced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14809 | The problem is now recognized, especially in Europe, and strenuous efforts are being made to harmonise the data sets (e.g. through the use of standard classifications, such as that for land use produced by the Conference of European Statisticians in 1989). | No other data collection methodology obviates the short distance variation in data sets induced by variations in data collection and aggregation methodology typically encountered between adjacent nation states. | At present, however, ground-collected environmental data are far less than ideal. |
literal | threaten | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20861 | Zeigler divides the public hazards into those which result from the production of raw materials and manufactured goods, those which originate in transport and transmission and those which threaten the public in their role as consumers. | The further subdivision of natural hazards is self-explanatory as is that of individual technological hazards. | |
literal | modelled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13297 | With this system real-time fire growth can be modelled, taking into account changes in terrain, fuel and temporal changes in the weather. | Kessell (1988) describes a PC-based GIS called PREPLAN (PRistine Environment Planning LANguage) which is a natural area management, land-use planning and fire modelling system developed for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, PREPLAN comprises four modules: a simple raster-based GIS; a grid cell resource database; a wide range of vegetation, fuel, fire behaviour, erosion and land-use models; tabular, statistical and colour graphics output system. | Kessell points out that uncontrollable fires are recurrent phenomena in many parts of Australia, causing damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars and significant loss of life. |
metaphorical | assessing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1568 | IN SYSTEMS development nothing is more fundamental than assessing user requirements. | If you don't know what the system is required to do; you don't know anything. |
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metaphorical | working | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22937 | 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. | The first part should be a general introduction which orientates the readers towards the system, its purpose, its functional structure and mode of operation and its performance limits. | 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. |
literal | deported | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4760 | That's how many East Germans we deported into the Soviet Union after the war . β | β Thirty thousand. | |
metaphorical | feel | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6405 | Part of the attraction of alternative cancer treatments such as the Gerson therapy is that they allow a patient to feel more in control of the treatment. | Dr Slevin agreed that this is often beneficial, but is concerned about other aspects of such therapies. |
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literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11089 | New Pegasus 109 Green Lanes, N16 (226 5930) Pub which has gone through several incarnations, most recently known as Chas'n'Dave's. | The odd policy to put the stage in the middle of the room rather than at one end leads to a diminishing of the atmosphere (the corners are seldom filled). |
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metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8111 | There you go. | No problem at all. | I think that's about it that price range. |
metaphorical | operating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13877 | Although this is not in itself to be dismissed as a tactic, it has diminished the complexity of Kahlo's achievement as a specifically Mexican painter, operating within the particularities of her historical moment. | This β appropriateness β of Kahlo's aesthetic to contemporary debate has tended to remove her work from its historical context, to stress the collective and the cross-cultural. | More problematic is the way in which such a dislocation has led to the acceptance of her β Mexicanness β as mere decoration of the essentially feminist themes of her work, thereby defusing a substantial part of the art described by Breton as a β ribbon round a bomb β. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16828 | Right, just, she said she's going to be head of department, it starts at ten OK, so she'll be ahead of herself, then as she'll be responsible for getting staff said she still hasn't, got she said, little love | ||
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21636 | We can use the methods described above to elucidate some of these occupations, and get a glimpse, albeit an imperfect one, of the trilobite as it lived. | Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches,>behaving in different ways, corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show. | I will take an example where all the methods can be used, and where all point in the same direction, so that the answer is probably correct. |
literal | working | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22942 | just cos you, you were coming out with about two hundred and fifty quid a week for working seven nights a week! | ||
literal | decided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4550 | He wandered restlessly about, and decided that the lie might as well become the truth. | It was, he felt, just too difficult to be at home at all, with Claudia in a permanently bitchy mood and both his teenage children taking their cue from her and behaving intolerably. | Without Angela Morgan, at least two major clients were in danger of not getting the assiduous service they were paying for, and it would be well worth trying to see if one of them, whom he knew to be a fellow refugee from family life at the weekends, could be found. |
metaphorical | savoured | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17197 | Instead I lay back in the heather and savoured the trickle of the burn and the crisp smell of peat-laden ground. | I could have gone with it, giving myself four blissful miles of upland walking followed by as many miserable hours of fruitless searching for return transport to East Kielder Farm. | |
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21637 | What criteria would police and immigration officials use in their search for β potential terrorists β on a train that they could not use at a static checkpoint or airport? | Do terrorists or illegal persons travel exclusively by train? |
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literal | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20974 | They told me it was a fake. | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla. | A fucking Hong Kong fake. |
literal | writing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23050 | Thus, while almost all scientists are β at the time of writing β convinced from the evidence that change in climate is under way and that regional effects may be much greater than the global average, the magnitude of the latter is now thought likely to be about half of what was predicted only 5 years ago. | In giving the 1990 Robens Coal Science Lecture at the Royal Institution, Sir John Mason (a former Director of the Meteorological Office) urged caution in interpreting the results of the massive atmospheric and oceanic modelling exercises; as the equilibrium models are refined to take account of the thermal lag in oceans, etc., lower values of predicted changes are likely. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5910 | It is not without interest to note that in the USA there is a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), established in 1978, charged with dealing with all types of emergency planning and management. | In the UK there is no equivalent, though the spate of disasters in the past 4 years (involving over 1000 lives lost) has led to several calls for such a national body to be established. |
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literal | permits | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14197 | The GIS permits population estimates to be made for any arbitrary rectangular region on the map. | Other spatially referenced data incorporated into the system include those on the distribution of schools, medical and transport services which can be displayed and supplementary information about them obtained. | Most significantly, it incorporates a shortest path algorithm which uses the road network to find optimal routes between user-defined start and end nodes. |
literal | fetched | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6523 | Ruth fetched and carried and stirred and whipped, praying every moment that Joss Barnet would return before they left Millfield next day. | The heart had gone out of the day. | But when the day had dragged to evening β in spite of all there was to do the time now passed slowly β and still there was no sign of the two men, she began to lose hope. |
literal | nurtured | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13661 | Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nurtured and safeguarded (Thatcher 1988). | The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development. | |
metaphorical | put | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15175 | In the sections to follow the stark question is therefore put β Is the Probation Service in the business of inflicting pain? β and the answer which unfolds may be summarized β No, because it neither aspires nor wishes to! β | If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes. | |
literal | indulging | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9990 | He conceded that there would be disputes with colleagues, but said: β There are no quick fixes, and I will not be indulging in any quick fix. | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to β spend and spend again' when they took office. | A quick fix clearly becomes unfixed. |
metaphorical | bothered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2233 | 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. | From there, like a buzzard in its eyrie, he would make forays round the US and abroad in spite of his advanced age. | He had a photograph of himself on his postcards and he signed his letters following the original tailpiece β everbest β. |
literal | sighs | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18594 | Mr Dobbs sighs: β This is a typically British bureaucratic response. | The only government support so far has been a recommendation by the Rural Development Commission, part of the Department of the Environment, to establish a pilot scheme. | It's been proved elsewhere that they work. |
metaphorical | collect | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3309 | If the owner is abroad, the agent will also collect tax at the standard rate of 25 per cent, which will be deducted from your monthly rent cheque. | Some agencies deduct it every month, others want it all up front, so shop around. | |
literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8538 | come home from work she said I've been looking round in Boots and that for you, she said er I've decided, she said I was gonna get you a gift voucher. | ||
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7228 | And it's only a quid to get in and it's a pound, pound a pint. | I mean, on a Wednesday. | |
metaphorical | caught | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2921 | The drift was thickly overgrown, a dank tunnel out of whose bushy sides the tendrils of brambles and briar roses caught at his clothes. | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger. |
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metaphorical | passed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14077 | Nor was it clear that Balfour's departure was universally desired: at the National Union Conference a few days later, Leo Maxse was booed off the platform, and constituency parties everywhere passed resolutions regretting Balfour's decision. | The party was in a mutinous condition in November 1911 and there was no apparent successor who would have even half of Balfour's political gifts. | A great many crocodile tears were shed, for, since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership, they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office. |
literal | asked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1499 | β Are you sure I shouldn't get a doctor? β she asked. | ||
metaphorical | abandoning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.614 | But it will not mean that we are abandoning them. | β Now if that means we have to postpone some of our social ambitions, then we may have to do so. | 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 |
literal | become | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1903 | 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. | This not only provides flexibility in the use of man-power, it also improves communication. | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems. |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12395 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality. | ||
literal | dissuade | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5206 | All in all, it was not surprising that Suger, mulling over the precedents of early crusading, tried to dissuade Louis VII from embarking on his Jerusalem journey in 1145. | William IX's crusade of 1101 brought about serious financial problems in Aquitaine which caused rapid devaluation in the hitherto stable currency; and Robert Curthose's decision to mortgage Normandy to William Rufus in order to cover his crusading expenses exacerbated a conflict over the duchy which was not settled until the death of his son William Clito in 1128. | |
literal | stored | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19414 | Their riches were stored in the banks under private accounts and then they were brought through Czechoslovakia and East Germany into the Soviet Union . β | They came in cars, army lorries, even an aeroplane. | |
literal | end | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5690 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency, which was due to end next year, was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind. | He had recently travelled from Tasmania to Norway in search of the perfect 2,000 metres of flat water. |
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literal | land | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11241 | The plane seemed to glide forward and land itself. | ||
literal | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20104 | you fill it and take the money out their hand don't you? | ||
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17800 | Who come to see you? | ||
literal | influenced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10008 | Morale and motivation are influenced more by conditions of work in the sense of work variety opportunities and attitudes of management. | It is generally accepted (p. 145) that β hygiene β type variables such as pay and working conditions can, if they are inappropriately specified, depress morale and motivation but they will not in themselves result in very high levels of these parameters. | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11123 | people are coming to do some Christian teaching for us, you know somebody from the | ||
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21873 | β He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence, β said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs, visiting Serbian bishops and television crews. | Montenegro's sudden rehabilitation of Nicholas's memory is a popular move. | Marko Radoman, 103, and a veteran of both Balkan wars, was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas's reign. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14522 | IWOULD agree that male and female stereotypes portrayed in cartoons are equally abhorrent, were it not for the fact that, whilst one pokes fun at a powerful group in society (men), the other perpetuates the oppression of a powerless group (women). | In an ideal world, there would be no need for either, but for now I would rather see the frustration expressed in these light-hearted>terms than in the sort of man- hating bitterness that has given feminism such a bad name. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3469 | Sentiment, loyalty, service and track record, none of these things will come into it . β | β My dear, they'll do whatever they feel is necessary to do. | |
metaphorical | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20007 | Why did they take it a stage further with him? | Go home. | He'd got high blood pressure, he wasn't in any pain he's living a normal life. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8404 | Where are you going Monday? | On Monday? | |
literal | influenced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10010 | 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). | Scientists have both promoted and responded to the increasing interest in the environment. | |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17658 | 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. | Essentially I am not a " Van Gogh ". | 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. |
literal | watch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22457 | 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. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8049 | Oh I don't think I shall go in for that. | ||
metaphorical | give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7625 | Berg was also an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, which was later to give birth to the CIA. | He was interviewed by Moe Berg, then one of the most famous baseball players in America. | His job was to convince Amaldi to pack his bags because there was a ship waiting at Naples to take him to the United States. |
literal | relate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15841 | In terms of principle, the rule requires justification because it departs from the principle of correspondence (see Chapter 5.2(a)), namely that the fault element in a crime should relate to the consequences prohibited by that crime. | If the point of distinguishing murder from manslaughter is to mark out the most heinous group of killings for the extra stigma of a murder conviction, it can be argued that the β grievous bodily harm β rule draws the line too low. | By allowing an intent to cause grievous bodily harm to suffice for a murder conviction, the law is violating a general principle, turning the most serious of its offences into a constructive crime. |
metaphorical | warn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22398 | The researchers, headed by Dr Margaret Klinowska, a Cambridge biologist, and David Goodson, an expert on acoustic engineering at Loughborough University, say new data shows that plastic sound reflectors to fishing nets can warn dolphins of hazards. | ||
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10989 | You know deep sea diving at | ||
literal | drawn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5324 | Attention should be drawn to the three Annual Reports of the Hazardous Waste Inspectorate (now merged with other branches of the DoE to form Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution). | These contain some valuable material on disposal practices, and volumes of waste generated and disposed of by each waste regulation authority (WRA) β counties in England, districts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. |
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181,
186
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8360 | Sometimes, too, houses have to be sold by auction to satisfy the legal requirements of trustees or executors (auctions provide adequate proof that the property has been sold at the going market value, and protect trustees from future claims of negligence). | Less happily, but for the same reason, repossessed houses are often auctioned. |
|
literal | born | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
49
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2198 | His dead brother, Vincent Van Gogh, had been born on March 30th 1852. | He had been born on March 30th 1853. | He was in flight from his family, his dead alter ego, his uncertain sense of identity. |
literal | including | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
173,
182
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9878 | BTP's enlarged specialist chemicals activities boosted turnover to Β£60.1million, from Β£44.8million, in the September half and profit rose to Β£9.6 million from Β£5.6 million, including an exceptional Β£3.1 million, from the Rizzi engineering sale in Italy. | Earnings without such gains were 1.9p higher at 6.8p a share. |
|
literal | attempts | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1688 | The next section therefore attempts to summarize what we do know; it is derived chiefly from the Earth System Sciences Committee (ESSC) (1988). | Even at this stage, however, it is important to stress that we have a very incomplete understanding of many processes in the natural environment. | |
literal | try | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
198,
201
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21299 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively β which they can't β they would be crazy to try . β | β I know that's what Mueller's always wanted, but Nate and the Executive Committee would never fall for that bloody empire-building game! | |
literal | speak | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
60,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18930 | I mean, and she was in a terrible, I mean she couldn't even speak! | Well I reckon she lived er a couple of years after the stroke Gordon. | |
literal | walked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21990 | She walked out with him to the car and said: β I was sorry about your aunt β sorry for you, I mean. | He placed the proofs on the desk, refused Alice Mair's offer of coffee and followed her back to the front door. | I expect that for an ornithologist death ceases to be terrible once sight and hearing begin to go. |
literal | asked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1497 | β All of them? β asked the DDA. | ||
literal | hand | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
93,
97
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9122 | It is devoted instead to the worship of the charitable Rytasha, who is not content simply to hand over the cash but insists, in an unfortunate hangover from her Hare Krishna days, on posturing as β a spiritual master β. | A pukka building was duly erected, but its medical function has somehow been indefinitely postponed. | |
literal | needed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
258,
264
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13539 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors, such as distaste for the defendant's background, allegiance, or other activities. | Admittedly, the Model Penal Code does contain a list of circumstances which may amount to extreme indifference, which assists the courts and increases the predictability of verdicts in a way that Scots law does not, but the essence of both approaches is that there is no precise way of describing those non-intentional killings which are as heinous as intentional killings. | |
metaphorical | bringing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
110,
118
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2363 | Any substantive disagreement centred around the issue of what role social deprivation and unemployment had in bringing young people to protest violently on the streets. | The need to support the police was accepted by both the Labour and the Conservative speakers in the parliamentary debate on the riots, and was established as a benchmark for the official response to the riots long before the Scarman Report was published in November 1981. | |
metaphorical | rush | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
29
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16565 | You might expect them to rush to La Mama's aid. | But it has distinguished alumni: Billy Crystal, who talked between the Oscars, and Oscar contenders Bette Midler and Nick Nolte among them. | But Stewart snaps: β I don't want to be disappointed so I'm not going to ask for their help . β |
metaphorical | focused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
107,
114
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6758 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination, such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo's admittedly fascinating life. | The passionate obsession with her husband Diego Rivera, her flamboyant appearance, but most of all her physical and emotional pain have come to dominate responses to her work. |
|
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
55,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16716 | Heading west on the return flight path, the instructor said, β This is the first time I've flown with a pupil and haven't once needed to touch the controls . β | ||
metaphorical | leads | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
119,
124
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11343 | It helped us to derive Biot-Savart's law, it will come handy later in solving certain radiation problems, and it often leads to nice formulae, e.g. for the magnetic flux crossing a surface, defined as formula that may be rewritten in terms of the vector potential as follows: formula where C is the curve enclosing the surface. | In my opinion A is a useful thing if used with moderation. | |
metaphorical | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
61,
64
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11620 | You have to hope that its blankness will slowly dissolve and let life in. | Just once a couple of tears rolled down. |
|
literal | preferred | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
198,
207
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14617 | The club owners, the casinos, and the multinational bookmakers knew which professional gamblers successfully played games that contained an element of skill β such as backgammon and poker- and they preferred to have nothing to do with them; ideally, the house welcomed inexperienced, rich idiots. | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive, boneless saunter: he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room. | |
metaphorical | pushing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15130 | That is pushing it. | Mm. | |
literal | acting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.773 | It is, however, impossible to separate out processes acting at different scales and over different periods: a single volcanic eruption lasting hours or days sometimes leads to dust and gas being ejected into the atmosphere over a period of months and this in turn may lead to global climatic fluctuations over years or decades. | In this chapter, the primary concern is with changes occurring over time spans from minutes to centuries and from spatial wavelengths from about 1 m to about 100 km. | Conversely, a large-scale and long-period phenomenon such as the movement of tectonic plates can lead to local stress accumulation and to its release by an earthquake in a few seconds and with highly local effects. |
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
39
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21612 | 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). | As Foresman (1986) suggests, we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role. | Barringer et al. (1987) overlay data on soil type and geology with that of groundwater quality (hardness and corrosivity measures) and build a linear model which shows that the background environmental variables are good predictors of the water quality indices. |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8751 | Lewis got up and pulled the curtains across with a pettish jerk of his hands. | The brick side-wall of his neighbour's house seemed to have moved itself four or five feet further towards the dividing fence, so that it loomed offensively. | |
literal | buy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2548 | To buy some milk? | ||
literal | call | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2596 | The people of Munich call their version of Weissbier β breakfast beer β and have it with a pair of coddled veal sausages. | Some Frenchmen start the day with a coffee and calvados. | New Orleans favours a mid-morning milk punch, or its own variation on the gin fizz. |
literal | compiled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
73,
81
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3724 | The compilation of a spatially coherent database from mapped information compiled by different organizations at different scales and on different topographic bases (see Rhind and Clark 1988) is often difficult; | ||
literal | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
84,
90
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3607 | At the end of what she reckoned must be an hour, she faced the fact that he was not coming. | She dropped to the ground again and lay down, burying her face in the sweet- smelling grass. |
|
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11609 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead β the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate β but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call. | β Way you go, Patty, β he said softly, and the dog was off, hurling herself along the embankment, all paws and flying ears, after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close. | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit, and walked on, to catch her up, along the raised embankment. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
47
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17084 | β The results exceeded our expectations, β said Mr Goodson. | Dolphins swimming near the barrier altered their behaviour to avoid it, the result, the scientists believe, of them detecting sonar echoes from the reflectors. |
|
literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
98,
101
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8471 | Bulbs, er probably not cos I think I'll have to do while you're at school cos daddy tells me it's gonna rain this afternoon, I'll have to do that this morning, pity that. | ||
metaphorical | stomach-turning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
140,
155
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19328 | As his eyes focused he realized he was looking at a hideously swollen human body, and just then, as the light breeze shifted, he caught the stomach-turning odour of decay. | He saw a leg, uncomfortably wedged between sapling trees, swollen grotesquely, and gazed at it, stupidly, wondering if it was plastic. | He was a sensible and capable boy, an eldest child, so he moved closer, trying not to breathe, and stood steadfastly looking until he was confident of what he had seen: a body, must be a girl because it was wearing a skirt, lying face down, head towards the bottom of the embankment as if she had dived off the top. |
literal | knew | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10528 | Delaney knew there was no way she would be shifted from her chosen course. | Ordering her would be ludicrous under the changed circumstances, and in any event, a waste of time. |
|
literal | remains | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15908 | But Paul Davis remains unfit. | After all, he had just the man on his staff. | His absence is increasingly conspicuous and Liverpool, for the moment, in a super league of one. |
literal | says | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
61,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17475 | β It's not ethical as they are acting for the landlord, β he says. | Letting agencies should never charge tenants a finder's fee, although according to Galsworthy, many agencies do. | |
literal | Get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
3
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.143 | Get that hat. | Not quite there. |
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