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literal | Let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.295 | Let us briefly consider some of the possibilities. | The fault element for many serious offences is intent or recklessness: why should this not suffice for murder? |
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literal | dealing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4502 | Cost-benefit frameworks, especially for dealing with man-induced climatic effects; | ||
metaphorical | yield | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
142,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23107 | Ron Todd, the general secretary of the transport workers' union, said that today's vote on the multilaterist nuclear defence policy would not yield the β massive and overwhelming β majority predicted by right-wingers, and he warned that party leaders could not expect everybody to β goose-step β in the same direction once the policy had been carried. | Calls for consideration of electoral reform and a new form of black representation are both expected to be defeated. | |
literal | seems | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17978 | Nor, it seems, is anyone else. | As for the private sector, while BT may be happy to provide pump priming for five telecottages in the north of Scotland, it is not about to bankroll a nationwide network. | |
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3588 | β I'm going to do another hour, then have some lunch, if you want to come? β | He hesitated. | He was aware that he was not managing to sound exactly like a senior officer making a recent arrival feel at home, but decided not to add any further riders to his invitation. |
literal | bought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2249 | It was that bad that we went when I bought my house in Manchester | ||
literal | awakened | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1747 | But next morning Ruth awakened early and, leaving Miss Beard to her gentle dreams, dressed quickly and hurried out of the house. | It was another golden day. |
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literal | provided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14994 | In general, they suggest that the model provided reasonable and reliable evacuation times. | Hobeika and Jamei have tested MASSVAC on various evacuation scenarios for Virginia Beach City in order to determine evacuation times for flood and hurricane conditions. | Southworth et al. (1989) have enhanced the MASSVAC model with the addition of a colour graphics module which they call MVOPL. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16878 | Sophie was supposed to be doing the chorus so I grabbed Mary, and said come with me on the half way through, called Sophie why are you doing all the talking Dot and not Mary! | ||
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20504 | I I think they'd been on holiday and, she took ill on the holiday and, and came erm, she was stopping at erm, Edith's and er it happened then. | Yeah. | |
literal | organised | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13917 | John House, who had organised the exhibition, came almost leaping down the stairs accompanied by a smallish woman in a pine-green tent-like coat. | A painter stopped to kiss her: a journalist waved. | He also kissed Frederica and introduced the woman, fumbling her name, as " a colleague " and Frederica as " Frederica β you must forgive me, I never know what name you re working under, women these days are so protean . " |
literal | became | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1837 | (When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury, when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures.) | His concern was solely with effectiveness rather than style; he rarely spoke with more than brief notes and left it to the occasion to furnish the words. | As an extempore speaker he was able to tailor his words to his audience's reactions and so convey the impression of personal conversation even when addressing thousands. |
literal | began | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1956 | Evidence began to mount that much of the social welfare paternalism of the post-war period had created almost as many problems as it solved. | The work of Peter Townsend and others showed that, far from presiding over the elimination of poverty, the Wilson Government actually failed to prevent some of its features from worsening (Townsend and Bosanquet, 1972). | Neither the Butler Education Act of 1944, nor the introduction of comprehensive schools, prevented a high proportion of children from under- achieving. |
metaphorical | fumbling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7089 | He also kissed Frederica and introduced the woman, fumbling her name, as " a colleague " and Frederica as " Frederica β you must forgive me, I never know what name you re working under, women these days are so protean . " | John House, who had organised the exhibition, came almost leaping down the stairs accompanied by a smallish woman in a pine-green tent -like coat. | Frederica did not attempt to ascertain the fumbled name, having given up interest in stray new people until it was clear that they were of real concern. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16681 | Did you hear what I said mummy? | ||
literal | stand | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19107 | The CID sergeant thanked her gravely and went to stand beside Jamie who was peering down the embankment, looking pinched. | β We'll go down together, lad . β |
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literal | lying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12321 | Your lying again | ||
literal | turn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21384 | You turn right | Yeah, go on. | |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20616 | Oh well I bet, I think perhaps it is really. | Yes. | radio on break in tape I know. |
literal | prevent | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14730 | MORE than 800 Lloyd's of London members on syndicates managed by the loss-making Gooda Walker agency have failed in their legal attempt to prevent Lloyd's and members' agents from drawing down their funds. | Michael Freeman, the solicitor who advised the members on court action, said yesterday: β This will cause the most dreadful hardship. |
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metaphorical | isolated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10298 | 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. | 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. | His strategy was rather to canalize the enthusiasm of the diehards into party channels, to articulate their views, and to create unity from the sense of movement. |
literal | driven | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5418 | Daniel asked, for politeness really, why Van Gogh had been mad, was it just that he was driven? | As the cypresses must always, differently, mean death. | Alexander said that it may have been a form of epilepsy, exacerbated by the atmospheric-electric disturbances of the mistral and the heat. |
literal | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18065 | The curtain was a dense, opaque greenish-yellow, and something was right behind it, a shape pressing against the humped plastic standing there looking down at him, half seen, half imagined. | ||
literal | divides | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5251 | The East Kielder Burn divides here into Scaup Burn and White Kielder Burn. | I dropped down the hill to ford White Kielder upstream of the ruined farmstead of Kielder Head, where a line of stunted alders, shaggy with lichen, leaned over their leafless reflections in the peat-brown water. |
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literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20602 | Link that with Trimmler's death, Goodenache's sudden departure for Germany and the mention of the Lucy Ghosts during their conversation, and I think you will agree that is the strongest lead we have to follow . β | Except that a lot of the information we have both lost was about the Lucy Ghosts. | |
literal | preserved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14687 | This fish is preserved in a fine-grained limestone which preserved most of the skeletal details of the fish (but not its colours). | 49 Fossil bony fish, Lates gracilis, Eocene. | This is a stout-bodied fish, something like a perch in general proportions, with long, low fins on upper and lower rear of the body (fin rays finely divide near their ends). |
metaphorical | giving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7834 | Mr Hattersley said giving disproportionate power to small, minority centre parties would not improve democracy. | However, Neil Kinnock, the Labour leader, and Roy Hattersley, his deputy, both opposed the motion. | Mr Kinnock said it was wrong to propose a fundamental change in the voting system for a short-term tactical vote to get rid of the Thatcher Government. |
metaphorical | started | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19183 | Allan Ahlberg says: β In the past, a lot of children's books seemed to be the work of talented illustrators whose pictures looked brilliant framed in a gallery, but when you tried to read the book, there was nothing there, because the words started as a coat-hanger to hang pictures on . β | They see themselves not as author and illustrator, with separate roles, but as a partnership of β book-makers β, contributing equally to the process. | |
metaphorical | Go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.203 | Go on, you do lovely smiles. | ||
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22236 | You know he's entitled to his holidays but I don't want to sit | ||
literal | throttled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20876 | As the Rallye dropped to about thirty feet above the runway, Miranda throttled back completely and held the stick back. | The plane was now moving at not much above stalling speed. | |
metaphorical | concede | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3773 | The sergeant nodded, deciding it could do no harm to concede a point he had already taken. | β No one could tell who she was, surely? β |
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literal | pulled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15082 | On impulse, and against his better judgment, he pulled off his own mask. | Worried, Delaney followed, searching her face, fearing the tell-tale signs of toxicity. | |
metaphorical | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7744 | His Lordship reached that decision without enthusiasm because it seemed that as a matter of common sense, notice should be given in such circumstances before criminal proceedings were launched. | Therefore in the present case the justices came to the correct conclusion. | |
literal | begin | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1980 | Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages, they acquire their own equipment. | The abstract talk of commuting by rail or road being replaced by information technology finds a concrete expression in the idea of telecottages. | Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office. |
metaphorical | forced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6857 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people, who had never voted Conservative, and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power β to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who didn't vote for it β. | ||
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21638 | 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 | neighbouring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13599 | Geoffrey was brought up from infancy with the sons of neighbouring Angevin lords, on whose companionship he relied. | John of Marmoutier's life of Geoffrey le Bel offers a glimpse of how strong bonds were created between the prince and his followers within the household, and how a high level of training was maintained at all times. | When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen, he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him. |
literal | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12616 | Yet, despite such revolutionary changes in technology, novel solutions will still be required to make effective use of the new data sets. | Moreover, the advent of low-cost, high-density-storage devices like CD-ROMs may well make substantial data sets available even to those with modest computing power: a CD-ROM, for instance, can hold about 600 megabytes (i.e. 10&sup6; bytes), can be reproduced currently for about Β£1 and read on a device costing about Β£400. | One such solution is Goodchild and Yang's (1989) scheme for a hierarchical spatial data structure to handle data for the spherical earth. |
literal | argued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1322 | The β scourge of criminal violence β was, Whitelaw argued, a danger to the whole framework of consent and legality on which the political institutions of British society were based. | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw's introductory statement in which he spoke of (a) the need to β remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets β, and (b) the urgency of developing β policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends β (Hansard, vol. 8, 16 July 1981: col. 1405). | In reply Roy Hattersley supported the call for the immediate suppression of street violence, but warned that the roots of such riots could not be dealt with until all people felt they had a stake in British society (ibid.: cols. 1407β9) |
metaphorical | reducing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15709 | 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 | win | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22694 | Did you win any money today? | ||
literal | argue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1336 | β Let's not argue about something that happened over thirty years ago, β Adam said finally. | β Can you raise money to help me fend them off? |
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literal | write | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23027 | She says to me I've explained to her how to do it and she says I'll give you a bit of paper you just write down the answers! | ||
literal | look | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12013 | She had suggested that they look at Van Gogh together, setting up another form of repetition, deliberate, contrived and aesthetic. | She had been a nuisance, a threat, a torment and was now a friend. | His play, The Yellow Chair, had first been presented in 1957; he did not like to think too closely about it, as he did not like to think too closely about any of his past work. |
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3397 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she β¦ well β¦ vanished, and so far had come up with nothing. | β Well, very worried. | I mean no one noticed anything unusual about her and she seemed to be full of plans for the wedding . β |
literal | daresay | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4471 | I daresay she wants me to go! β | I hate her! | |
literal | left | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11551 | β There's Sean O'Farrell and the master left in a hurry this hour past for New York City, both without a bite inside them β and now you . β | Cook demanded. | |
literal | read | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15454 | Every year he would have half a dozen nine- and 10-year-olds in his class who could barely read. | Little kids eat you alive, they want so much physically and emotionally . β | He treated reading as a team effort, getting them to read the Daily Mirror rather than the dull, babyish books on offer. |
literal | covered | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4295 | Some deflowered rose bushes, on the left a stretch of the park β red-ochre β the soil scorched by the sun, covered with fallen pine needles. | A view of the park of the asylum where I am staying; on the right a grey terrace and a side wall of the house. | This edge of the park is planted with large pine-trees, whose trunks and branches are red-ochre, the foliage green gloomed over by an admixture of black. |
literal | setting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18304 | The advert gave the story its vaguely Thirties setting. | The Ahlberg version features a solitary figure. | |
metaphorical | packed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14005 | Of medium height and packed with energy, even distressed as he was, he was bursting round the kitchen, hair still damp at the back from his swim. | Francis Morgan, by contrast, was dark, almost black-haired, sallow-skinned, with bright brown eyes. | |
literal | dissenting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5203 | In the leading case of Cunningham Lord Edmund-Davies (dissenting) gave the example of breaking someone's arm: that is a really serious injury, but one which is unlikely to endanger the victim's life. | The counter-arguments, which would uphold the principle of correspondence, are that breach of that principle is unnecessary when the amplitude of the crime of manslaughter lies beneath murder, and also that the definition of grievous bodily harm includes a number of injuries which are most unlikely to put the victim's life at risk. | So in practice the β grievous bodily harm β rule goes further than the arguments of its protagonists would support. |
metaphorical | find | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6586 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office, he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent, but that I realized that from the Press point of view, no doubt, our speakers did not play up to the reporters by> handing them their speeches in advance, and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse. | ||
metaphorical | helped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9475 | 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. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11953 | Today, I was told, villagers living around the great wool churches of Lavenham and Long Melford have to bar their doors and ignore the knocking of tourists, who take them for antique shops and offer to buy their furniture. | ||
metaphorical | give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7659 | If you fancy viewing any of them just give us a call. | ||
literal | living | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11932 | And next door to him, number five they're an elderly couple erm and they've got one of their sons living there at erm he's disabled in some way but I'm not quite sure how. | We fell out for a little while but I mean, playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine. | |
literal | find | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6602 | Someone told some cat burglar where to find that picture! β | Adam briefly described how the triple portrait had been slashed and added, β D' you really expect me to believe that you had nothing to do with it? | |
literal | progress | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14831 | Mark's promotions and progress up the company ladder. | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school, followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term. | New and changing homes. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4316 | Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses. | On one level this work deals with a generalised β woman's experience β, yet the metaphorical power of Dorothy Hale's dress derives from Kahlo's use of clothing in her own self-portraits. | Hale's black velvet dress is cursed because it represents the values of the β Gringolandia β so hated by Kahlo. |
literal | disturb | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5235 | Gently as though he might disturb it, he pulled back. | ||
literal | examine | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5963 | One is to collect morbidity and mortality data (usually the latter is more widely available, though the former more useful) and to examine spatial distributions for clustering. | It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed. | This has itself generated a substantial literature (see the papers in Elliot 1988 for an overview) and is nowhere better exemplified than in Openshaw's geographical analysis machine (see Ch. 2). |
metaphorical | hopes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9616 | Obviously, however, Bristol and West hopes to hear from interested people in advance β if only so it can gauge the likely demand for each property before the auction starts. | The building society will be staffing a mortgage desk at each auction, and says buyers could arrange finance there and then, subject of course to proof of income and status. | |
metaphorical | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6969 | He found himself encouraging, fostering, the scenario illusion. | Beautiful, yes, but severe somehow and, to Adam's heightened awareness, reproachful. | 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. |
literal | matter | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12835 | It wouldn't matter what they said. | ||
metaphorical | held | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9393 | If the weather had held and still been hot and dry would they have dug deeper? | Probably not. |
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literal | wear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22504 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker, yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance. | Beneath the filmy topcoat he wore a black shirt and black trousers that were tucked into tall black boots. | The only incongruous note was a cheap round badge, enamelled in red and yellow, that he wore on his shirt, which bore the legend β Just Say No! β. |
literal | wanted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22299 | where, he wanted a heart bypass? | ||
literal | live | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11888 | Yeah, you can live in one and I'll live in another. | We'll have them both. | |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21785 | Many people might think that a person who causes death whilst using an unlawfully held firearm or explosives ought to be convicted of murder because there is, generally speaking, no excuse for using such dangerous equipment. | The law must resort to some kind of moral and social evaluation of conduct if it is to identify and separate out the most heinous killings. | Some of the people thus covered would be armed robbers, others would be terrorists. |
metaphorical | picking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14277 | picking me at half past seven tonight love. | ||
literal | happened | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9193 | For what had happened was not the worst, you realized that. | An hour maybe and you are making contingency plans. | The worst was yet to come, was perhaps always yet to come, never would actually come, because if it did you would know it, that would be reality, and there would be nothing then but to kill yourself. |
literal | expect | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
38,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6062 | As Foresman (1986) suggests, we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role. | Clearly, the research demands access to exceptionally good environmental data, usually in three dimensions. | Merchant et al. (1987) for example, use the image processing system ERDAS to construct an index of vulnerability to groundwater pollution; this uses variables such as depth to water table, soil type, slope and so on (see Estes et al. 1987 for a similar approach). |
literal | buy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
112,
115
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2531 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy β the most beautiful dress in New York β, telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband. | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source. | |
literal | seemed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
65,
71
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17912 | I am not a small man, nor am I a weakling, yet the thin Sweetman seemed unconcerned as I jumped down into the cockpit. | I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me. | Then I saw why he was so confident. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
78,
82
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17106 | β Well, there won't be any European job functions, that's for sure, β Muldoon said. | β There'll be a direct link between Detroit and the line managers in each country, with Detroit calling the shots . β |
|
literal | finished | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6679 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished! | ||
metaphorical | added | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
86,
91
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.820 | Could finish off the UK vehicle division, β he said forlornly, β and Don Peters, β he added, shaking his head. | I heard about this latest Merseyside strike in Istanbul. | Some of the stupid bastards won't be satisfied until we no longer make a single vehicle in the UK. |
literal | saw | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17234 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist, now lay in a wilderness, amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat. | A sudden gust of rain dashed against the red bricks that were already stained in patches by water. | Dirty grey clouds tumbled across the sky above the slate roof, now the only thing that shone, glazed with rain. |
literal | refusing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
169,
177
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15779 | β Well, I told them that, β Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other's eye in silent agreement that he hadn't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out, reception at the House of Commons, replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself. | A row of epic proportions had ensued, which he and Angela had evidently enjoyed but which had left Sarah and Jennifer sick with distress. |
|
literal | relating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
39
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15848 | Spatial linkages and questions relating to spatial representation feature prominently in the settlements and infrastructure and geodemographics fields. | Questions relating to data integration emerge as being particularly critical in terms of environmental monitoring and settlement and infrastructure applications. | The evaluation of error propagation is a matter of considerable significance in the environmental monitoring and settlements and infrastructure fields. |
literal | planted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
25,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14347 | This edge of the park is planted with large pine-trees, whose trunks and branches are red-ochre, the foliage green gloomed over by an admixture of black. | Some deflowered rose bushes, on the left a stretch of the park β red-ochre β the soil scorched by the sun, covered with fallen pine needles. | These high trees stand out against an evening sky with violet stripes on a yellow ground, which higher up turns into pink, into green. |
metaphorical | bring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
118,
123
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2354 | Thousands of Montenegrins, many in national costume, waited at the quayside in Bar for the Italian warship that would bring him home. | Then they formed a slow procession behind the coffin into the mountains to the old royal capital of Cetinje for his reburial in the monastery there. |
|
literal | causing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
111,
118
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2988 | In 1979 a train carrying chlorine, liquid petroleum, toluene and propane was derailed in Mississauga, Ontario, causing a series of explosions. | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson (1981) give weight to this argument. | This led to the evacuation of 250 000 people which, although staggered over several days, led to great pressure on transport arteries. |
literal | seems | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
77,
82
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17974 | It will be seen that English law does this up to a point, and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3. | It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater. | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11006 | You know where the porter's desk is? | No! | |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
49,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12995 | Well I can't well I mean there's an awful lot, I mean would, no, no matter which political party it is, they all make promises, but they don't carry them all out. | ||
literal | limit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
103,
108
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11794 | The mezzo Irina Bogatcheva, wife of the National's artistic director Stanislav Gaudassinksy, agreed to limit her roles. | The National's Boris Godunov was built around Ognovenko; he had to stay home. | But that wasn't enough. |
literal | need | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13493 | To enjoy it, we do not need to be dry: just in need of a restorative or relaxant, or maybe a focus for a social moment or brief encounter. | That is not thirst. | |
literal | live | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
308,
312
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11867 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch: β The safest way to live is first, inherit money, second, be born without taste for liquor, third, have a legitimate job that keeps you busy, fourth, marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities, fifth, join some big church, sixth, don't live too long . β | A passage from a novel by John O'Hara came back to Adam. | Apart from the last one which he hadn't got to yet and the penultimate one which seemed to apply in America more than here (here he had joined the golf club) he had complied with all the rest. |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
68,
72
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12878 | He thought, I know what my idea of heaven would be, if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity: a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing, destruction of the lungs or damage to the heart, light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor, and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly, with increasing euphoria until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any sub-sequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion β¦ | He could usually get through quite easily until after lunch. | |
literal | hanging | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9169 | If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine, you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it. | If there are small children in the equation, there will need to be a flat, soft area where they can fall off swings and climbing frames. | |
literal | hear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
30,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9313 | It's just that I can actually hear it. | I can actually hear the motor on |
|
literal | learn | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
58,
63
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11371 | These days, he writes the books intended to help children learn to read. | β A lot of books used in schools are technically readable but rather drab stories. |
|
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
256,
260
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9445 | Lord Jesus, thank you for a nice sleep, thank you for another day, please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do, prayer for Christopher to behave at school, help him to do his best and for daddy at work, for Tim and I as we stay at home, help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we'll spare the time for her as well, Amen. | Are you ready? | |
literal | phoning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
28,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14249 | expensive business for her, phoning from Manchester,. | Well exactly, yes, she can give you a ring erm or I could give you a ring for that matter erm. | |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17755 | There you are, go and see somebody. | Have you had enough grub for a little while? | |
metaphorical | give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
96,
100
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7623 | And they told it without on-screen questioning, though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked. | It's right that the Guildford Four have told their stories now to Grant McKee and Ros Franey and First Tuesday, the programme and the producers who dug away, and did much to keep the case alive. | Carole Richardson's is the most haunting face. |
literal | yeah | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
24,
28
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23081 | Are you coming with me, yeah! | And! |
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