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literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8082 | So I said, you can go in there when we are, when we done the shopping. | So she said, mm. | So I said, if you are a good girl you can choose a cake. |
literal | waving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
83,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22498 | He pulled the dog close to him to let a mixed string of horses and Ponies go past, waving shyly to the lead rider, a pretty, capable girl an unbridgeable two years older than him. | The boy, unlike the dog, knew that the mud did not go on for ever; beyond the bridge, the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up, so that water ran off it. | He watched her as she went past at a walk, the black Labrador and he both gazing wistfully, their breath steaming in the cold February morning. |
literal | please | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14442 | Would you please tell me the high season price for one week? β | β You're really not being noticeably helpful, β he said after a pause, β so let us try again shall we? | |
literal | cos | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4217 | Somebody was looking after me cos I shouldn't have got out and I did. | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10869 | Oh and yes β¦ a chap from Conservative Central Office rang up to say they'd like to know if you would be prepared to stand for the European Parliament. | I've written it all down. | He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. |
metaphorical | take | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20115 | β That's why we've got to take risks, β Nell put in. | β Lure it into a trap, somehow. |
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literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10997 | You know the peoples ah you know | ||
metaphorical | give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7682 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings. | If the council did not react to that notice, then would be the time for the tenant to exercise the right to prosecute. | |
literal | heading | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9289 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north. | Anne was furious. |
|
literal | looking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12136 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time, looking for something he might have missed, when he heard her giggling. | She was in the swivel chair, reflected in the window with the dark night as a backdrop, her head angled towards him. |
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metaphorical | sliced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18724 | But she looked briefly down, dazzled by the flowing skin of worked and delicate colour; the blue and rose tourbillons of the mistral on the sea, the prismatically sliced frosty nimbus round the mysterious squat stacks. | It was not a view of things with which Frederica was entirely in sympathy: she liked naming names. | She scribbled words, notes, in the margin of her catalogue. |
literal | provide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15036 | β He's already co-ordinating the regional plans to provide a world picture. | So what's changed? β |
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metaphorical | fighting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6533 | As well as fighting for more money, her task was to ensure that β every last pound β was spent as effectively as it could be. | But she stressed there would be no let-up in the search for greater efficiency. | |
literal | cursed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4419 | Hale's black velvet dress is cursed because it represents the values of the β Gringolandia β so hated by Kahlo. | Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses. | In those paintings where Kahlo wears European dress she is passive, weak and unable to control her own destiny, but in the Tehuana costume she is strong, powerful, hopeful. |
literal | dwindling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5489 | MP Neville Trotter is a pear-shaped Tory with pear-shaped vowels who has little appeal to the people of Meadowell, and a dwindling appeal in the middle-class suburbs where unemployment is also climbing. | Paddy Cosgrove, his likely replacement, is a council hack of 21 years standing and ideal backbench fodder, though it is hard to imagine him leading a crusade for Meadowell. |
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literal | wearing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22512 | Alexander, always a connoisseur of garments, realised that Frederica had changed her style, that the clothes the young creatures were wearing could be described as a parody of the clothes Frederica had worn at their age, and that Frederica's new style was not unrelated to this shift. | A dozen or so schoolgirls were dutifully filling in xeroxed, hand-written, one-word-answerable questionnaires. | There she was in a conventional two-piece suit, fine dark wool, muted geometrical pattern in greens and unexpected straw browns, caught in at the waist β still very thin β to give the effect of a bustle, the skirt long and straight to the knee. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17707 | Nan can you see them | ||
literal | distribute | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5226 | The feet of the sauropod are small (relatively speaking!), with short, stubby toes, yet animals that walk on soft mud tend to have spreading feet to distribute their weight more evenly. | The sauropods have relatively long, pillar- like legs, resembling those of the elephant, the largest living land animal, and may have been well adapted for supporting the huge bulk of the animal. | It is difficult to see how the compact feet of the sauropod could avoid becoming stuck fast in the soft, muddy bottom of a lake. |
metaphorical | proceed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14768 | β With an auction, you've got to be certain that at least two buyers are there who can commit themselves, and the difficulty is that buyers who can proceed are few and far between, β said David Phillip, a director of Yorkshire estate agents Dacre Son and Hartley. | Not surprisingly, several estate agents report difficulties at the moment in attracting enough serious bidders. | |
literal | scandalising | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17512 | " And the hair as other hair, " said Frederica loudly, scandalising a few bystanders, amusing a few more. | " You could read it another way, " said Alexander, interested now, " you could read the pears as androgynous in themselves, as partly male . " | " You like to cork for your images, don't you, Alexander? " |
literal | ripping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16410 | The husband-and-wife partnership behind such classics as The Jolly Postman, Burglar Bill and The Baby's Catalogue win children over with ripping yarns and a wicked sense of humour. | They win their parents over with a rose -tinted vision of the world which is decidedly reassuring. |
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literal | stopping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19401 | You know, I mean, she keeps stopping but she's, she's remarkable! | She really is. |
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literal | mean | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12915 | I mean you just don't you don't imagine that do you really? | ||
literal | stalling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19090 | The plane was now moving at not much above stalling speed. | After being given clearance to land, Miranda, following her instructor's directions, started her approach; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold β the point just before she intended to touch down. | As the Rallye dropped to about thirty feet above the runway, Miranda throttled back completely and held the stick back. |
metaphorical | leading | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11333 | Initially the analyst does all the work, leading the user towards a system he thinks is right for the business. | Good system development goes through two distinct phases. | But once the user sees the potential of the system, a change in attitude takes place. |
metaphorical | pop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14515 | Yes, do come pop in. | We're usually there. |
|
literal | seem | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17868 | I seem to recall that Elinor helped you to buy your first good bike. | β I thought you were fond of Elinor. | Why drag her into my problems? |
literal | began | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1959 | John Mantley, producer of Gunsmoke for CBS for 11 years, says elements of the old story began to fall apart. | β We all read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. |
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literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16829 | 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 | ||
metaphorical | highlighted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9521 | The strength of the partnership is highlighted for Allan, who also works with a number of other artists. | The time-consuming nature of Janet's part in the process, combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day, means she cannot keep up with her husband's prolific output. |
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literal | supplements | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19689 | Finally, all manuals should end with an index which supplements the table of contents at the beginning. | A glossary of terms and acronyms used can be very helpful not only to the reader but also to the writer who is forced to consider carefully how he is using various technical terms. | |
literal | commissioning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3668 | The fighting chair on her aft deck had thick white leather straps giving it the appearance of a padded electric chair, while the dazzle paint gave the boat an oddly military look that was completed by the number 666 that was painted on her bows in silver-edged black numerals like those warships use to display their commissioning numbers. | She boasted a harpoon walkway, a fly bridge, and, above the highest wheel-platform, an aluminium canopy which held a radar aerial. | The boat's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby's ugly air of menace. |
literal | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7325 | I'll go and get one this afternoon. | I thought well in town you can get about they have er a big turkey. | And I've gotta get erm |
metaphorical | gave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7167 | The first stunning silence gave way to the creaking of the ship and a far-off booming of the sea against the hull. | ||
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8137 | Well at least he can have a word with him about it and see what and he can do, and then you go to and see what they can do. | ||
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17687 | It needs tidying up but you can see that the price | a new kitchen. | |
literal | increase | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9923 | If, for instance, the concentrations of certain trace gases (see above) continue to increase, it has been predicted that the earth's surface temperature will increase by an amount comparable to that since the last major phase of the most recent glaciation (about 18 000 years BP) β though there is some dispute about the magnitude of the likely change. | There are several important ways in which biogeochemical processes can influence climate and hence habitability (except where the latter is maintained at enormous cost). | The converse case β the effect of physical climate changes on biogeochemical processes β is also of obvious importance: changes in annual averages and cycles of temperature and precipitation, together with the probabilities of extreme events such as prolonged droughts or frosts, are major determinants of terrestrial ecosystem type, at least in areas largely unaffected by human activity. |
literal | treated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21209 | In many quarters it is asserted that the Unionist Press are treated with greater courtesy by the Radicals than by their own side . " | The UOC found that " it is patent that some feeling exists among the Unionist Press that, while in the past they have done much for the Party, the Party has not assisted in their work. | Fraser dealt with this problem without difficulty and explained to Law in 1913 that " the importance of getting important speeches in advance is shown in concrete manner by your Wallsend speech on October 29th. |
literal | liked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11768 | It was not a view of things with which Frederica was entirely in sympathy: she liked naming names. | To suggest it, that is the dream . " | But she looked briefly down, dazzled by the flowing skin of worked and delicate colour; the blue and rose tourbillons of the mistral on the sea, the prismatically sliced frosty nimbus round the mysterious squat stacks. |
literal | barking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1774 | The hollow barking of a dog came from one of the stone sheds, but there was no sign of life around the buildings. | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat, and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm. | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England, tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north. |
literal | meet | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13133 | As the Welsh squad do not meet again until 30 October, time has all but run out. | β We have taken a step backward, β Ryan said β and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November. | |
literal | summarized | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19665 | Although summarized as an alcohol education course, the sessions are not just concerned with giving information but also with enabling participants to make practical use of it. | Each of these four methods are employed during the eight sessions. | In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor's notes (Menary, 1986) by the explanation: β This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past β (p. 3). |
literal | chop | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3159 | Mum, but it's tricky because when, when you chop that way, and then that way chop it that way it's all | ||
metaphorical | included | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9854 | Is the cooker included or not? | ||
literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11114 | Trace gases in the atmosphere are key components of the cycles of such elements as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur and the halogens; as is now well known, their concentrations are much influenced by biogenic and anthropogenic activities and the concentrations of such gases as carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, nitrous oxide and the chlorofluoromethanes (CFMs) strongly affect radiative transfer and provide a link with the physical climate system. | The oceans and their biota play a central role in the carbon and nutrient cycles; global ocean circulation is also critical to the global carbon budget. | A particular cause for concern is that the concentrations of the two main CFMs is increasing by about 5 per cent per annum while the equivalent figures for methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide are 1, 0.4 and 0.3 per cent. |
metaphorical | confused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3895 | The situation is further confused when some but not all the operator information support is itself computer-based. | Procedures is sometimes used for what are here called routines and sometimes to indicate all the operator's information support except software. | Sometimes the term firm-ware is used. |
metaphorical | studied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19502 | 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. | |
literal | protect | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14907 | This has been a constant theme of Intifada policy: that we wish to build (Palestine), not to destroy (Israel); that we wish to achieve freedom (for our people), not to deprive others (Israelis) of it; that we wish to protect and save lives (ours), not to endanger the lives of others (Israelis). | ||
literal | seem | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17873 | In fact anti-racism and anti-sexism seem to come naturally to the Ahlbergs. | Their books are full of female breadwinners and New Men changing nappies and comforting bawling babies in the small hours. |
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metaphorical | cut | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4440 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue. | And here, barring the road, was the familiar old farm gate still in place. | It swung open at his touch but closing it, as always, was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which, no matter how frequent his visits, would always be alien territory. |
literal | relating | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15849 | The ANUFLOOD system requires locational and building type data on individual properties, stage-damage curves relating the average damage that would result from overfloor flooding to differing depths for each property type, and lastly, flood frequency in terms of flood height expressed as a probability. | One interesting example of a GIS approach to flood damage estimation is the ANUFLOOD package which was developed in the early 1980s following detailed flood damage studies for flood-prone coastal towns in northern New South Wales, Australia (Smith and Greenaway, 1988). | Output from the system is both tabular and graphical. |
metaphorical | preparing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14637 | From Central Office, and from around his entourage, came the unmistakable signs of fair-weather friends preparing to detach themselves from blame for defeat. | Was it too late? | |
literal | chewing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3125 | Surely an animal of this bulk, it was argued, must be partly supported by water, and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft, luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps. | Most of the popular books showing the Mesozoic giants in their natural setting portray them wallowing about in swamps flanked by deep vegetation, their bodies largely under water. | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary (see p. 115) to totally submerge. |
literal | existed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6026 | All were spontaneous outbursts: none, contrary to some claims, were politically inspired or orchestrated (except in Northern Ireland where urban problems existed on a grander, more devastating scale, and where there was a unique heritage). | In the early 1980s, at a time when manufacturing industry was collapsing and the outlook for the unskilled looked particularly bleak, frustration boiled over in a series of riots in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, and elsewhere. | Many had an β ethnic β dimension, in the sense that many of the rioters were black. |
literal | knew | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10556 | One never quite knew what he was going to say next. | He always felt that effective musical criticism began by being well written, and he never lost his liveliness. | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music, a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time. |
literal | sha | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18377 | β I shan't wait till Adam returns, β Lewis said in that manner that had once led his daughter to call him the Frog Footman, | ||
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3413 | I would pick up the phone and phone my solicitor and ask to come and see him and get his advice. | If I were innocent, thought Rufus, I know very well what I would do. | He might advise me to make a statement to the police which I should of course do under his guidance. |
literal | appraising | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1266 | 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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metaphorical | point | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14462 | By the time his aunt arrived Jamie was so far recovered as to be able to refuse to go home and to point out, severely, that he would be needed, either to assist the police or to be lead rider in the eleven-thirty class, or possibly both. | The boy thought longingly of his mother, but managed to help Miss Williams describe the location of the body to a startled local station sergeant and to drink a cup of sweet milky tea without being sick. | |
metaphorical | restore | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16257 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ β¦ handed on by the Apostles . β | The specific role of bishops which is to be exercised in communion with the see of Peter in ensuring the unity and continuity of the faith is vital if we are to hand on the faith of Peter, Gregory and Augustine. | |
literal | fucking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7070 | But you couldn't fucking move at that. | No, I reckon, th th there was, th th they reckon between a, a thousand and e eleven hundred for a night, you know. | |
literal | wait | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21892 | From the purchasers' point of view, auctions can also be attractive β if slightly nerve-racking as you wait for bidding to start for the house of your dreams. | The problem is that normally potential purchasers have to incur the expense of undertaking surveys and arranging mortgage finance, without any idea whether they will be able to afford the final selling price. |
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literal | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6992 | It is found in North America (Canada and the US), England, Belgium, France, Germany and Russia. | Sigillaria bark is covered with little horseshoe-shaped scars (leaf cushions). | This piece is 9 cm long. |
metaphorical | hits | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9539 | Come to think of it, neither hunger nor randiness hits quite the spot. | Peckishness and lust, perhaps? |
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literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11728 | No, she probably doesn't like it. | A bit spicy! |
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literal | sounded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18898 | It sounded, he thought, more like a challenge than an invitation. | Somewhat to his surprise, Dalgliesh found himself accepting. |
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metaphorical | coming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3645 | Yeah, she's only coming up for six weeks, mm, a monster. | ||
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16293 | An argument by many atmospheric physicists, for example, is that shortcomings in the accuracy of weather prediction over periods of more than a few days largely results from the unsophisticated nature of existing models, the lack of suitable data and inadequate computer power (see Fig. 9.3, derived from Tyler 1989). | The environmental systems are effectively regarded as machines whose workings can all be discovered, described in differential equation form and whose future activities can thus be predicted in detail if their initial states are known. | In contrast, the advocates of chaos theory (e.g. Stewart 1989) argue that some natural systems are so sensitive to tiny stimuli that even β the faint beat of a butterfly's wing could be the ultimate trigger for a hurricane β. |
literal | took | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21084 | They actually took they actually took the front off so that the water would get hotter. | Erm and it didn't work and you know |
|
literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
34,
39
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11109 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network (RIMNET) and has, as its prime responsibility, the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident. | The DoE, through Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP), was given the task of co-ordinating a national response plan, installing the radiation monitoring network and acting as lead government department in an emergency (HMSO 1988). | |
metaphorical | walking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22000 | It is as if it is walking through a minefield. | The army never knows which it will be. | |
metaphorical | catch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
116,
121
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2896 | Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun. | There was an open roll-top desk facing one of the wide windows and, to its right, a stable door, the top half open, gave a view of the paved courtyard. | The room, which contained nothing superfluous, nothing pretentious, was both pleasing and extraordinarily comforting and, for a moment, he wondered why. |
literal | assisting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
26
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1591 | The counselling, assisting, directing, and monitoring on the AEC give substance to the aims of support and surveillance and provide the basis for establishing a model of probation practice. | Punishment has no place in this model. |
|
metaphorical | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17309 | 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. | We just assumed that certain charge carriers moved with certain velocities. | The above equation is spite of its utmost simplicity represents an extremely good guess. |
metaphorical | banish | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
86,
92
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1766 | There must be a total retrieval now, the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams. | Adam sat in his parents' house, drinking tea. | He was aware of a slight feeling of sickness and of cold, an absence of hunger, though he had been feeling quite hungry when he got off the plane. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
97,
99
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8976 | you know, I, I that kind of stuff doesn't draw punters generally, chart stuff cos the people who go | ||
literal | called | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
74,
80
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2645 | The Unionist recovery was built around Law's leadership, but what Asquith called the " new style " of obstruction, threats and offensive behaviour did not originate with Law. | The beginnings are to be found in the diehard campaign against the Parliament Bill. |
|
metaphorical | encapsulated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5658 | This was conveniently encapsulated in the first try. | Wales, characteristically, delayed the heel at a scrum, putting Robert Jones in trouble when the ball finally emerged. |
|
literal | developing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
39,
49
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5005 | 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. |
literal | read | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15481 | need to read a song? | ||
metaphorical | hit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
19,
22
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9537 | Up until that news hit the Committee, Don had won the day with his UK Vehicle Division proposals. | That was the last straw as far as Nate was concerned. | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike, that was it. |
literal | show | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18556 | β I want to show you the clematis. | β Now come into the garden, β she added, smiling. | It's a mass of colour . β |
literal | acknowledging | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
82,
95
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.746 | A leafy retreat is an excellent goal for a small town garden, but it is best made acknowledging the urban setting, using un-wild plants such as bamboo, acanthus, fig, vine, alchemilla, euphorbia, wisteria. | ||
metaphorical | dealing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
57,
64
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4508 | Three elements refer to the female presence, all of them dealing with an essential lack. | Nature has been banished, technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world. | The empty dress, a peeling poster of Mae West and in the far distance the Statue of Liberty. |
metaphorical | kept | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
44
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10440 | Chelsea might have won had the ball not kept turning into a Mexican bean at Kerry Dixon's feet. | Campbell's hard-working side are still trying to sort out their system, which involves a spare defender and, as far as one can see, a good deal of improvisation. |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
83,
87
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10688 | Her sole purpose in being there was to meet him and she was content that he should know it. | β discovered β. | |
literal | built | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2470 | A wise man built his house upon the rock, a wise man built his house upon the rock, the wise man built his house upon the rock and the rain came tumbling down, and the rain came down and the flood came up and the rain came down and the flood came up | ||
literal | clutching | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
172,
181
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3277 | Ahead of him, trudging along on the left of the path, was a little group of children, the eldest girl wheeling a pushchair with two smaller children, one each side of her, clutching the bars. | Three minutes later he raised his foot from the accelerator. | Hearing the noise of the car she turned and he saw a peaked, delicate face framed with red- gold hair. |
metaphorical | bestowed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
40
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2080 | β No, β he said helpfully, then bestowed a patronising smile on me. | Sweetman turned and pretended to notice the sports-fishing boat for the first time. | β You look so like your father. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
30
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17790 | Well you see, you actually see them little punks collecting them up at the end of the night don't you? | Putting them under their coats like. |
|
literal | thinking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20682 | If you are thinking of letting your property, the following points will help to safeguard your interests: | Ask any agency you are considering using if they are a member of one of the above professional associations . If in doubt, ask to see proof of their membership . 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 . If the letting agent is not managing the flat, the tenant's deposit should be given to the owner immediately . Expect to pay a management fee of up to 15 per cent . Some agencies deduct it every month, others want it all up front, so shop around . 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 . Letting agencies should never charge tenants a finder's fee, although according to Galsworthy, many agencies do . β It's not ethical as they are acting for the landlord, β he says. |
|
literal | flung | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
51,
56
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6739 | In the passage, she stumbled and almost fell, then flung back the door to the bedroom. | Frantically she tore open the door to Elinor's apartment. | |
metaphorical | using | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
71,
76
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21805 | β I mean, they're not open twelve hours like my shops, and they aren't using the space . β | β I never see how they get the sales per square foot in these places, β Barton observed, without further greeting. | His small bright blue eyes swept disparagingly over the minimalized black and white flooring, stainless steel chairs and black wooden bar. |
literal | forbids | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
35,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6847 | In practice, legislation generally forbids such data being held thus and distributed in anything other than area aggregate form; the cross-tabulations commonly employed (e.g. to give tables of population numbers broken down by age and sex) often result in a great multiplication of the data volumes. | It would be technically possible, for instance, to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world, akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population. | |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17716 | Oh I see. | Oh yeah. |
|
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
2,
6
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16755 | I said, I normally do | ||
literal | like | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
45
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11784 | you've got margarine what else would you like? | ||
literal | apologizes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
38,
48
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1187 | β I don't want to read it, unless she apologizes . β | ||
literal | knew | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10526 | Damn it, you knew about it for long enough, β snapped the Exec Director. | β Why didn't you stop it? | |
literal | planted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
59,
66
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14345 | Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun. | There was an open roll-top desk facing one of the wide windows and, to its right, a stable door, the top half open, gave a view of the paved courtyard. | The room, which contained nothing superfluous, nothing pretentious, was both pleasing and extraordinarily comforting and, for a moment, he wondered why. |
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