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metaphorical | bore | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
67,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2184 | Inevitably, therefore, war on the grand scale as fought by princes bore little resemblance in practice to the feuds of lesser men. | The divergence was sharpened by the application of a theoretical distinction, the fruit of Augustinian theology, amplified as the century went on by canon and Roman law reference; princes pronounced their campaigns just wars (fought against aggressors with the aim of re-establishing peace) or public wars (declared by a competent authority in the public interest), while they condemned the wars of lesser men as infractions of the peace. |
|
literal | intended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
67,
75
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10117 | The essays in this book do not amount to a programme: but they are intended to provide a springboard for one. | The aim is to analyse a problem which economic growth alone has failed to cure β and to consider possible new forms of public action. |
|
literal | constructed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4006 | Using soil samples he constructed a contoured risk surface and then mapped excess cancers in various distance bands, detecting a marked distance decay effect. | To some extent this line of approach was anticipated by Johnson (1981) in his study of exposure to plutonium fall-out from the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver (see Zeigler et al. 1983: 47β8). | |
literal | aid | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
139,
142
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1008 | Early research at the NWRRL focused on developing a GIS for use by the police and county emergency planning officers in Cumbria that would aid in the management of a possible explosion at a chemical factory in Whitehaven, west Cumbria (Vincent et al. 1988; Dunn 1989). | Reference was made above to so-called CIMAH sites, major hazardous installations for which on-site and off-site emergency plans must be prepared. | The police required a portable system that could be implemented on an IBM-compatible microcomputer. |
metaphorical | passed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14080 | Then as the minutes passed and there was no sign of him, she considered that perhaps he had overslept. | She was happy to wait for him, certain that soon she would see him riding towards her. | It could happen. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10781 | I know. | Yes. | |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10782 | I know. | Yeah, and you can't, you can't understand it can you really? |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
64,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11188 | β I've had numerous prison governors say to me, Yes, Conlon, we know you're innocent, but there's nothing we can do about it. | If this stops another innocent person going to prison, it'll be well worth it β¦ | We get a custody order, and that's it. |
literal | look | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
4
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12188 | look at the price! | Look at the price! |
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literal | serves | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18231 | In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two. | The findings of the analysis are summarized in two sets of research questions for all applications fields. | |
metaphorical | goes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8204 | In describing its vision of effective supervision the White Paper goes on to note: | β Alcohol β, the White Paper states, β is implicated in a wide variety of crimes, drunken driving, offences of public disorder and domestic violence β (p. 21, para. 4. 14). | offenders take part in alcohol education programmes so that they can learn to drink sensibly . They learn about the relative strength of different drinks, the amount which is safe to consume, and the pitfalls to avoid (e.g. competitive drinking and buying β rounds β) (p. 37, para. 7.11). |
literal | decided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4546 | He considered the boy thoughtfully, and decided to take him back quickly. | β Doctor'll tell us . β | These teenagers were in his experience a lot less tough than they looked. |
metaphorical | return | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16322 | We shall rather return to a very simple geometrical configuration for deriving Ohm's law. | It is not worth discussing any of these complications because one is rarely called upon to work out lines of current in a conductor. | |
literal | waiting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21938 | β We've been waiting to move for a long time, and we need the money to build the new house . β | β We accept that we might not get very much for it, but on the other hand we could get more, β says Julie Widlake. | |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8668 | Have you got my keys? | ||
literal | built | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
268,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2473 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States (and often several groups within each one), databases of topography, soils, water resources and quality, biotopes, atmospheric emissions, climate, soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated; other data sets (such as land cover, derived from satellite imagery) have already been compiled for some of the Member States. | Many achievements can be claimed by the CORINE project team. | Various aspects of the CORINE project have been described in papers by Rhind et al. (1986), Wiggins et al. (1987), Briggs and Martin (1988), Briggs and Mounsey (1989) and CEC (1990c). |
literal | generated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7206 | 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). | 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. | We then search retrospectively for evidence of possible environmental associations. |
literal | neighbouring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13600 | If the cross-section happens to be smaller at a certain place, then the forces are larger there than at the neighbouring cross-sections, so the beam will be further constricted, etc., leading to the so-called sausage instability (Fig. 3.3(a)). | Nevertheless a few qualitative conclusions may be drawn without doing any further mathematics. | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side, then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker, etc., leading to the so-called kink instability (Fig. 3.3(b)). |
literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8502 | We're not gonna change anyone's mind. | The wheels have already been set in motion. | You know that . β |
literal | fulfilled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7084 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth, thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county, the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether. | Then his example lured his elder son Bertrand to Tripoli in 1112, and his younger son Alphonse Jourdain there in 1147. | 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 | walking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21996 | For a song, too, because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back, meeting a valuer, walking about the house, picking things off shelves and out of cupboards. | Everything that was left, everything he and Rufus hadn't sold, had gone to Ivan Langan with the house. | Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough, like a dream β no, like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film, a Hitchcock movie perhaps. |
literal | absorbed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.624 | Moreover, recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic (every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic. | Thus no meteorologist would attempt to forecast the weather 2 or 3 days ahead without using a mathematical model based on observations from all around the world. | Thus, to understand some local and many regional, national and continental and all global environmental events, we need to have a global perspective and hold global databases (Rhind and Mounsey 1989; Mounsey and Tomlinson 1988). |
literal | distanced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5208 | Beneath this man-made mechanism of oppression are the people, literally distanced from their surroundings by Kahlo's use of photo-collage. | The Church, Wall Street, and Industry are joined by a network of telephone lines, forming a remorsely inhuman environment. | In the forefront of this scene flutters the dress, incongruously vibrant despite its suggestion of loss. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20693 | just been upped to eleven hundred I think. | Erm I mean, it was always nine hundred, but it's been upped to eleven hundred last year I think. |
|
literal | shifted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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43
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18389 | McLeish advanced on the cabinet and shifted it authoritatively, ignoring the clip on the ankle dealt him by an unsecured bottom drawer apparently full of bricks. | β Where do you want that put? β | |
metaphorical | admitted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.876 | But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him. | It was the heat and sunshine and privacy he liked. |
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literal | proposing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14892 | Oh, is that what they are proposing to do? | What the hell do you expect me to say? | Well bully for Mueller and the Corporation? |
metaphorical | played | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14381 | During both April and July 1981 vigorous exchanges took place in the press and in Parliament about the role that deteriorating social conditions and unemployment may have played in bringing about the riots. | Although the Scarman Report is often taken to be the central text which argues for a link between β social conditions β and β disorder β, the terms of the debate were by no means set by Scarman. | During the 16 July parliamentary debate on β Civil Disturbances β, Roy Hattersley's formulation of this linkage provided a useful summary of the β social conditions β argument. |
metaphorical | searching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
36
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17562 | Worried, Delaney followed, searching her face, fearing the tell-tale signs of toxicity. | On impulse, and against his better judgment, he pulled off his own mask. |
|
literal | regarded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15798 | Such demands highlight the extent to which geographic information management must be regarded as a means to an end rather than an end in itself when viewed from the standpoints of the needs of planners and decision-makers. | This is particularly evident in the demand for the development of knowledge-based decision support systems and modelling capabilities. | |
metaphorical | deal | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4521 | β He doesn't have the inside knowledge to deal with questions . β | Mark asked. | |
metaphorical | greeted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9020 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat, sleek and black as tar, greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back, glimmering and pale in the moonlight. | After dinner there, when the moon was full and low and deep orange, we walked up the road from the hotel to Long Melford church. | We were quite alone and the great church, the size of a cathedral, was unearthly in its floodlit, moonlit beauty. |
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11588 | If Jamie hadn't let the dog off the lead she could have been there much longer . β | But only a local would know to put a body there. | |
literal | Give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.156 | Give her that back! | Oh! | |
literal | run | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16510 | Irrespective of the use of surrogates, monitoring environmental processes only makes sense over time-scales which are extended by human standards (hence the IGBP (see below) is designed to run for two or three decades); | ||
metaphorical | including | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9911 | β He's gonna plan, direct and control worldwide planning operations from Detroit, including the regional planning functions . β | β He's not going to just co-ordinate and consolidate any longer, β Muldoon said, with increasing nervousness. | |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8267 | For a song, too, because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back, meeting a valuer, walking about the house, picking things off shelves and out of cupboards. | Everything that was left, everything he and Rufus hadn't sold, had gone to Ivan Langan with the house. | Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough, like a dream β no, like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film, a Hitchcock movie perhaps. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20593 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I don't think he could get a buyer actually, it's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he's not keen on selling it at that price. | Ours is actually a new house. | And I'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself. |
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8309 | If you're going in er if you're going in that direction hmm? | ||
literal | provide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14969 | 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. |
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literal | succeed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19546 | I think we are likely to succeed β thanks in part to the very generous example set by Lord Rothschild. | Steel-Maitland told Balfour that " Farquhar and I are endeavouring to raise more money. | But I would b, e very glad if I might see you on your return to ask you to help me in two cases. |
literal | paid | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14021 | Rufus took her Β£40 off her by the reception desk, having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic, with Rufus, her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed. | You couldn't blame them. | Rufus shook hands. |
metaphorical | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
65,
71
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3639 | They had weathered Bridgend's early fury, conceding a try before coming back with some confidence to score three of their own. | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering β and at half -time, building on their win over Newbridge, it looked as if they would. | |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12947 | In these sections punishment will be understood to mean the infliction of pain and the review of the project will seek to demonstrate that the probation practice described is not only more demanding but also more effective than this traditional understanding of punishment. | Beforehand, however, consideration will be given first to the probation project and second to its evaluation. | |
metaphorical | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
162,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18049 | It was Grizel Huntley's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior, and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well. | At least, Mrs Huntley thought hopefully, she had stopped wondering, unbecomingly and stridently, how her uncle could have been fooled by Angela Morgan. | Indeed, she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer's office. |
metaphorical | appeared | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
61,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1227 | She let go of the cabinet, coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it, and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her, throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters, and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean, narrow, metal window. | She looked about sixteen and beautiful. | |
literal | sleeping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18716 | 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. | ||
literal | combining | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3353 | In 1936, three years before Aaron Copland, Thomson started writing film scores which were a model of unobtrusive clarity and pertinence, combining American materials to suit documentaries such as The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River with the musique d'ameublement approach of Satie. | His score for the film Louisiana Story was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. |
|
literal | associate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1594 | And they were saying, they were saying that, you know, you associate strokes with older people, but there's a hundred young people a week have strokes! | And he said I was completely confused and I couldn't, he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and, er, you know my mouth wouldn't work, he said, but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital. | |
literal | happen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9183 | It could happen. | Then as the minutes passed and there was no sign of him, she considered that perhaps he had overslept. | Or had his horse gone lame, cast a shoe? |
literal | try | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21346 | β If one of my patients wants to give up a potentially curative treatment in favour of an alternative therapy, then I will try to dissuade them. | But it is essentially up to the patient . β |
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literal | keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10394 | Law personally conducted the negotiations with Gardner Sinclair over the sale of the Observer and the Pall Mall Gazette in 1914; this negotiation also demonstrates that, as well as producing information and nursing editors, the party had to work hard to keep some of the newspapers in business. | He also used Law himself to impress editors who were on less familiar terms with Fraser, as with Marlowe of the Daily Mail, and Law took a direct interest in negotiations with the most difficult of all the Unionist editors, J. L. Garvin of the Observer. | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end, but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds. |
metaphorical | restricted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16264 | Software might be restricted, as in this book, to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information. | The terminology in this field is not standardised. | Procedures is sometimes used for what are here called routines and sometimes to indicate all the operator's information support except software. |
metaphorical | cheated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3090 | Hill expresses the way time has cheated them: his daughter was born while he was remanded in custody, and is now 14: β She would change dramatically and I didn't feel a change in myself mentally. | I'm still 20 in my head. |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10815 | In any case, you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . β | Who the hell can? | |
literal | dressed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5363 | His attention was also caught by a woman dressed in midnight-blue satin and diamonds; the sister of a Middle-Eastern ruler, she was known as an audacious gambler. | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers, most of them Greek, move towards the baccarat room, where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour. | 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 | including | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9906 | The hotel lies in five acres of fields and garden, and the Slingos, who own it, make the most of their beautiful surroundings by running painting courses for about Β£200 a week (including breakfast and dinner), or Β£90 for a long weekend. | The ideal hotel from which to explore is Dedham Hall, set among tall trees in the Vale of Dedham, looking directly across towards Dedham church on one side and Flatford Mill on the other: both painted by Constable. | These are so popular that you will need to book at least a couple of months in advance. |
literal | using | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21787 | Nell repeatedly pressed the button, shouted across at Lawton, who was now using the spy port. | ||
literal | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3641 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks. | But we weren't talking about the motor industry and the never-ending management-union saga. | And I do wish you wouldn't swear like that when you talk about business. |
literal | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18071 | Their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, who is likely to be seen with her head buried in The Beano or a Roald Dahl novel, has provided the inspiration for many of her parents' books. | As a baby, she was fascinated by the Mothercare Catalogue, and so The Baby's Catalogue, which documents the paraphernalia of the infant's small world in minute detail, was born. |
|
metaphorical | roaring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16433 | There the similarity ends, since judging from his writings Bagehot was a roaring snob, whereas judging from his heckles the heckler was not. | Like the heckler, he was a Liberal. | |
literal | complied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3750 | 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. | 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 | Or his nature and luck had complied for him. |
literal | photographs | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14251 | In her publicity photographs she could, he recalled, look beautiful in a somewhat intimidating, intellectual and very English mould. | It was a distinguished face with the deep-set, widely spaced eyes beneath straight brows, a well-shaped, rather secretive mouth and strong greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon. | But seen face to face, even in the informality of her own house, the absence of a spark of sexuality and, he sensed, a deep-seated reserve, made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected, and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space. |
literal | gon | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8585 | only other one he's got is a silk one so er I was gonna go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas, seven ninety nine and, but it said one size now I don't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I don't know whether them down there would fit, they were seven ninety nine, there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think. | They had some nice thick ones in Peacocks but they were seventeen pound well sixteen ninety five |
|
literal | moved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
45,
50
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13369 | We just assumed that certain charge carriers moved with certain velocities. | Up to now we have not enquired into the question of how the current arose. | Now we shall say that in a class of materials the current density at any point is proportional to the electric field; in mathematical form [formula], where [formula] is the conductivity of the material. |
metaphorical | growing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
50
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9067 | Rising unemployment turned a lingering and growing malaise into a crisis. | As in the United States, so in Britain it was an outbreak of violence that dramatically brought the plight of the inner cities to public notice. |
|
literal | noted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13628 | As noted above, the work of Fedra (1989) is a major step in this direction, and links need to be forged between initiatives in the UK and the rest of Europe. | There will also be movements of hazardous cargoes across frontiers and there are clearly problems of risk assessment and planning for emergencies at or near international boundaries, or at sea and airports. | |
literal | represented | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16129 | In the inert 1950s the western represented a troubled, adventurous American past. | In the anxious and eventful late 1980s and 1990s, they may come to represent, like All Creatures Great and Small in Britain, a less confusing past with simpler, deeper values. |
|
literal | standing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
62,
70
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19118 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was, and standing aside to motion him in she said: β It's good of you to be so accommodating, Mr Dalgliesh. | He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother, although she looked the elder by some years. | I'm afraid Nora Gurney is implacable. |
metaphorical | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7907 | Are you going to go to sleep, eh? | Please baby gurgling That doesn't mean much, does it? |
|
metaphorical | stretched | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
170,
179
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19445 | Outside Flanders, Robert's sister's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world; like Louis VI's sister's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch, it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies, ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts. | He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian's usurpation; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church. | Robert's example was a potent one. |
metaphorical | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2698 | Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending. | These included parents, under- fives workers, specialist workers, children's day centre organisers and playgroups organisers. | |
literal | wrap | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23006 | And if you wrap them round the | ||
literal | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21395 | Buzz turned her head to the left, where the portrait of the three sisters hung. | ||
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
10,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22233 | You don't want anything to eat? | No? | |
literal | need | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13508 | What else do I need? | plates There's a lot of banging and crashing on this tape. | A plate for Charlotte. |
literal | happening | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9223 | happening then. | ||
literal | provided | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
231,
239
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14999 | Moreover, as Newby (1990) has pointed out, the complexities of environmental research have created a new kind of relationship between research and policy: β in the past, β¦ the relationship was predicated on the belief that science provided decision-makers with objective β hard β facts on which to base their soft, value-ridden policies β¦. | In these circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that there is evidence of international and interdisciplinary dispute, as Terney (1989) has chronicled in regard to IGBP. | But now we find scientists delivering only β soft β, uncertain β facts β to decision-makers facing β hard β decisions . β |
metaphorical | variegated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
192,
202
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21829 | In the churchyard in his last parish a family in the English 1870s had tried to name a son Walter Cornelius Brittain and had buried three, aged five, aged two, aged one month, interspersed by variegated dead daughters, a Jennet, a Marian, an Eva. | (Though in Van Gogh's case, the names, Theodorus, Vincent, Vincent, Theodorus, appeared and reappeared from generation to generation, the cultural parallels to certain persisting aspects of the family face, a heavy brow, an intense blue eye, a cheek bone, a nostril.) | |
literal | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
224,
228
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2779 | 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. | 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. |
|
metaphorical | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
48,
54
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20147 | The point is rather that, even though knowingly taking risks with other people's lives is usually unjustifiable, taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death. | This is not to suggest that motorists should be treated differently. | In discussing the boundaries of murder, we are concerned with classification, not exculpation. |
literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12873 | Erm I mean it was a top floor flat. | Erm and one I looked at I couldn't believe it. | And so I mean you had to sort of go up several flights of stairs and you walked in and it, it looked lovely. |
literal | prove | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
126,
131
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14921 | Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability. | It is not as if four-star leaded fuel is going to be phased out tomorrow, but more and more buyers are asking: β Does it take unleaded? β |
|
metaphorical | managing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
59
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12742 | If, in addition to finding a tenant, the agency is managing the let, you should be paid every month, less a tenant-finding fee of between two and four weeks' rent. | The agency will keep the tenant's deposit until the tenant leaves. |
|
literal | indicated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
58,
67
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9974 | For most systems the manual is best divided into parts as indicated in Table 1.17. | 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. |
|
literal | addicted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
118,
126
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.837 | In the past two months, doctors at the Regional Addiction Treatment Unit in Birmingham have come across five patients addicted to crack. | This problem has spread to the UK. | Three are prostitutes introduced to the drug by pimps. |
literal | justified | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
149,
158
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10360 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation, such as a Royal Commission, into the practicalities of an alternative voting system (surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding). | Such a promise would be the only hope of a breakthrough for the disenfranchised voters and would have them flocking to the polls for Mr Kinnock. |
|
literal | paid | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
83,
87
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14017 | If, in addition to finding a tenant, the agency is managing the let, you should be paid every month, less a tenant-finding fee of between two and four weeks' rent. | The agency will keep the tenant's deposit until the tenant leaves. |
|
literal | enable | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5647 | Such a map will enable the reader to work out for himself how to get from one location to another within the town. | Consider for example how readily information about the relative position of streets is available from a map of a town centre rather than a verbal description of all the streets. | Note the enormous flexibility compared with a routine which would tell him only how to get from one particular point to another. |
literal | looking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
71,
78
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12175 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for, oh it was I was looking for your blouse | So I thought well in case I can't get them anywhere else the market and he said well we'll have one from here, twelve ninety nine. | |
literal | angled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
97,
103
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1148 | She was in the swivel chair, reflected in the window with the dark night as a backdrop, her head angled towards him. | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time, looking for something he might have missed, when he heard her giggling. | |
literal | watch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22460 | You don't have to to watch out Scones. | No I think I have half. | Where is scones? |
literal | became | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
82,
88
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1855 | I won't be held by a promise that was unfairly extracted from me before I legally became an adult. | β I've always wanted to fly. | And I get bored with nothing to do on holiday but lie in the sun . β |
metaphorical | assumed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
79,
86
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1626 | Sections 3.6β3.16 are concerned with magnetostatics, where electric fields are assumed to be zero and the interrelationship of J, H, and B are studied. | We shall discuss the rest first (Sections 3.2β3.5), and that will give us some idea of the relative significance of electric and magnetic fields. | |
metaphorical | sit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18648 | Unlike the prison inmate, AEC participants cannot sit back and passively do their time. | Probation practice is not, however, solely concerned with the establishment of rules. |
|
metaphorical | trotting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21265 | And she said he has to go trotting to Exeter two or three times a week now. | and next week he's got his first well she didn't know whether it was radiotherapy or chemotherapy. | |
literal | choosing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3149 | Did you know what you were choosing? | Oh, right. | Did you walk around Tesco's? |
metaphorical | belong | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
143,
149
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2069 | THIS expanded network of popular committees and institutions making up the Unified leadership is infused by tens of thousands of activists who belong to, or identify with, the different factions of the PLO. | In effect, therefore, the PLO exists at all levels of organisation within the occupied territories. |
|
literal | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
13
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7044 | β Patty found her. | She's just lying there, but she is dead . β |
|
literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11071 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . β | And to die in one's sleep without distress to oneself or inconvenience to others is an enviable end. |
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