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literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7928 | Charlotte mummy get cross with you if you start this nonsense, just got to get some dog food and some bread then we can go home, O K? | ||
literal | spend | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
9,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18994 | What you spend you could buy something. | ||
literal | worsening | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
44,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22995 | Homelessness, housing conditions, crime are worsening year by year, as the cycle of urban deprivation becomes more established (p. 1) | Half the school leavers have no O levels or their CSE equivalents. | |
metaphorical | makes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
137,
142
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12637 | In Britain, the tight financial regime imposed on local councils and the reluctance of central government to take on any new expenditure makes it necessary to seek funds from the private sector. | In Scandinavia, with their mixed economies, money is always available, after a bit of persuasion, from both local and central government. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16978 | well, Mark said it was, Mark er guessed about four hundred. | He's, he, he went in last week, he went in this week and er |
|
literal | confined | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
57,
65
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3874 | β It is not acceptable to have people who require a home confined to long-stay institutions when they could be in more domestic settings. | As a former psychiatric social worker, Mrs Bottomley is determined to improve standards of care for mentally ill and handicapped people. | That is a real challenge, β she said. |
literal | causes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
53,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2978 | Hurricane damage through high winds and tidal surges causes an immense amount of destruction and poses a major threat to many coastal communities in the USA. | Berke and Ruch (1985), for example, describe a GIS for assessing the impacts of hurricanes on the Texas Gulf coast. | It has been estimated, for example, that during the mid 1970s some 50 million US citizens were subject to hurricane winds of over 160 km/h and 6 million were subject to hurricane surge (Brinkman 1975). |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11174 | β I know it sounds crazy, Mark, β Muldoon said. | β But there it is. |
|
literal | wished | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22753 | Sometimes she wished Will would not write to her at all, if he would send no messages to Daniel. | Sometimes she told herself the postcards, or exercise book scrawls, were messages to Daniel, but one should never, she considered, ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her, to Frederica. |
|
literal | initiated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10049 | It was initiated partly in response to the furore caused by Enoch Powell's 1969 β rivers of blood β speech, much as disturbances at the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival prompted further steps on the part of the Department of the Environment β β A riot makes a much bigger impact on government thinking β, as Donnison (1987) has pointed out, β than any amount of earnest and accurate research β. | The 1970s β Urban Programme β had a social, rather than economic, emphasis and was administered by the Home Office. | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants (Social Need) Act, which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing, education, and health. |
metaphorical | dug | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
148,
151
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5477 | 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. | And they told it without on-screen questioning, though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked. |
|
literal | mitigate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13277 | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems: surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour. | As has been demonstrated elsewhere with regard to the generic probation setting (Singer, 1989), the supervision of offenders involves two overarching aims: namely support and surveillance. | These aims are implemented through the practice of four distinguishable but related methods. |
literal | seem | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17883 | She just didn't seem to be able to hang on to men, he thought impatiently, not like his Angie, wherever she was. | Jennifer sounded defeated, and he looked at her sideways with familiar love and exasperation. | |
literal | required | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16164 | Carefully designed case-control studies are therefore required to measure the separate effect of radon exposure after controlling for smoking behaviour and other risk factors. | There are great difficulties in assessing health effects, however, since exposure varies greatly from house to house within small neighbourhoods. | |
metaphorical | concerned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
18,
27
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3825 | The two companies concerned are trying to record the spoken word. | ||
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7988 | I won't go anywhere with, I don't want to go without him! | ||
metaphorical | faced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
41
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6243 | As at all his power stations, Scott faced the building in a fine Worcestershire brick that has weathered to a lovely pinky-brown. | But there is nothing homely about the general effect. |
|
literal | forty | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6932 | That been reduced to forty four thousand | ||
metaphorical | reached | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15428 | 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 | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
79,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10605 | And he said erm like it's the clots to your brains that erm that cause it, you know. | Aye. | They said, well did you have any warning about it? |
literal | breathing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
103,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2320 | Another of his blinding headaches had developed and he felt a tight sensation in his chest, which made breathing very painful and difficult. | The Englishman returned to his own palatial office and sat with his head in hands. | His secretary entered the room. |
literal | reiving | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15827 | Here, where the Scottish border ran across the Cheviot Hills, far from civilisation, β reiving β, or cattle-thieving, was a way of life. | The families of North Tynedale in westernmost Northumberland β Charltons and Robsons, Milburns and Dodds β were never slow to lay hands on each other's property in the lawless old days. | |
metaphorical | win | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22709 | We're not gonna win! | ||
literal | int | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10089 | As this is been shared by lines int it? | Er one four is four, two fours are eight, and thre three fours is twelve. | |
literal | walking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21995 | Apart from Kevin Moseley's steady supply from the line-out, there was nothing much to commend in a Welsh forward effort which reverted to the very worst Eighties stereotype of static, cumbersome donkeys only too willing to slow the game to walking pace. | The backs were mainly pedestrian but the fundamental problem lay elsewhere. | β When the pressure comes on, players revert to bad habits, β Ryan said. |
literal | twisted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21466 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun, but then, through the dizzying glare, I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed, incongruously, to be dressed in a long, transparent dressing gown. | He was emerging in stately fashion from Wavebreaker's companion way and, though I could see he was tall and lanky and had a ponytail of hair, I could make out no details of his face. |
|
literal | instructed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10088 | The second time round they dealt with R. and B. Lettings in London NW10, who they instructed just to find a tenant. | The Gulamalis never received the agreement form, the tenants' deposit or the first month's rent. |
|
metaphorical | setting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18299 | Ashley Dobbs, an engaging young entrepreneur, is setting out to change that by creating a nationwide network of β telecottages β. | The only computers in many villages are those owned by the teenage boys of the affluent to play their wham-bam games. | |
metaphorical | rising | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16420 | From the resulting corner Rhodes made another fine save, hurtling to his right to deflect away Dixon's rising shot. | A neat step-over by Rocastle sent Thomas hurtling in on goal but Rhodes moved sharply off his line to smother the shot. | Finally, with Arsenal pressing hard, he clawed away Quinn's careful header from Thomas's drag-back. |
literal | operate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13868 | Thus microclimate effects can have major short-term implications for local populations (such as those brought about by the photochemical smogs of Los Angeles), are often applicable only over areas of a few hectares or less and may operate on a diurnal cycle. | Even ignoring the effects of man, earth system processes operate at a variety of spatial and temporal scales (see Fig. 9.1; see also Rosswall et al. 1988). | In contrast, soil creation (cf. soil degradation) may require hundreds or thousands of years. |
metaphorical | assuming | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1638 | We may, in fact, reinterpret any of the diagrams of Figs (2.25) -(2.31) by assuming that the whole space is filled with a material of conductivity formula] and the field lines are now the lines of current flow as well. | Eqn (3.38) tells us that there is some analogy (see Example 3.3) with the electrostatic case treated in Chapter 2. | |
metaphorical | hold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9557 | Sir: I was interested by your juxtaposition of β Poll predicts 42-seat majority for Labour β with β Tories hold on β (30 September), the latter referring, of course, to the Conservative victory in Wandsworth, the significance of which appears to have been almost totally ignored by the media. | ||
metaphorical | ritualise | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16430 | These are sensuous pleasures at their most enjoyable when we ritualise them, but how do we feel when we desire them? | Worst of all, there would be no aroma, taste, texture or finish. | |
literal | cause | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2944 | The question is: granted that D's purpose was to frighten, did he nonetheless realize that it was practically certain that his act would cause death or grievous bodily harm to someone? | A defence of this kind, a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm, requires the full definition to be put to the jury. | The jury should answer this by drawing inferences from the evidence in the case and from the surrounding circumstances. |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8039 | O K off we go off we go. | ||
metaphorical | reached | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
66,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15433 | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached (unless somebody dredges up a β living fossil β from the depths of the ocean) β there are only varying degrees of probability. | Ideally one could construct a model of the fossil to test out these various functions in experiments, but the number of examples where the analysis has been pursued this far are limited. | But the best answers are probably obtained where the functional design of the fossil points to the same life habits as a living analogue, and where both are consistent with the geological circumstances in which the fossil remains occur. |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20640 | They seem to think that you can ask a businessman what his requirements are and get an answer that amounts to a draft system specification. | But many system developers are unable to assess requirements properly. | A doctor doesn't ask his patient what treatment to prescribe. |
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
31,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7423 | They've already told me you'll get the maximum terms permitted under British law. | New York and Detroit will come up with an attractive separation package, you can be sure of that. | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . β |
metaphorical | stopped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19390 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time. | The county ball. | The wedding. |
metaphorical | dying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5496 | The storm was abating rapidly, the evening sky clearing in the west with the golden rays of the setting sun adding a dying colour to the sullen slate blue water. | ||
literal | learned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11376 | It was within this kind of environment that chivalry flourished, that young men learned to identify, their vassalage towards their lord as a symbol of their honour, that they debated the relative merits of Roland's and Oliver's way of displaying loyalty; and that they learned the finer points of jousting. | In Rouen, the occasion was celebrated with pomp, elaborate dress, and a great feast, and then the youths all demonstrated their military skill at a grand tournament, at which Geoffrey naturally won the highest honours. | Tournaments were disapproved of by ecclesiastics, for they could be both bloody and dangerous. |
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9437 | 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. |
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literal | overlap | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13959 | Very I mean overlap | ||
metaphorical | spread | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19058 | It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater. | Thus, even if it would be excessive to sweep large numbers of the deaths now recorded as β accidents β into the law of homicide, there may be sufficient justification for creating or enforcing offences designed to ensure safe conditions of work, safe goods, safe buildings, and so on. | 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. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10651 | Did you know that? | ||
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
30,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8752 | Looks as if it and the wind's got it again. | It is. | |
metaphorical | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17495 | β Free Willy Hunter β say the graffiti, next to the old, fading graffiti for Dale Robson and Colin Atkins. | Meadowell has even discovered a new martyr in the shape of one Willy Hunter, a local hard nut awaiting trial for murder, and allegedly the victim of a police frame-up. | My friend Kevin, muscleman and minicab driver, says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it wasn't tipping down with rain the whole time. |
literal | pointed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
30,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14474 | 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 |
literal | ensure | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5774 | Some of the refugees originally refused to touch East German territory again, but were reassured when two of the West German diplomats said they would accompany the train, to ensure that the rules were followed. | The East German government's decision to let the refugees leave across their own country came as a surprise to many, including some West German diplomats. | |
literal | hear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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15
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9309 | If you can hear next door's music I can assure you it's not a regular occurrence. | And if you tell him about it he tu, he's in a rock band. |
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literal | Going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.210 | Going in all over that's the position anyway! | No! | |
literal | disappeared | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5103 | 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. |
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literal | carried | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2837 | The coordination of competing party bodies was carried out with surprising ease. | The National Union was merged with Central Office in 1911 and fusion with the Liberal Unionists followed in 1912. |
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literal | dictated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5032 | Despite these shortcomings dictated by the space available, what has been said should be sufficient to illustrate the enormous and diverse scope of environmental monitoring and prediction. | The consequences for some nations or subgroups in a population of being without access to environmental data or the tools for analysing them while others have such access are potentially profound β as the European Commission has recognized in issuing a directive on public access to environmental data (CEC 1990d) β yet space limitations have also precluded their discussion. | Such is its diversity that measuring the total expenditure on it seems quite impossible and the number of β actors β already involved is vast. |
literal | followed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6795 | He followed the other two into the dark shadows of the room housing the Low Countries. | Nuns ascended and descended a cool grey stair in winged white caps. |
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metaphorical | announced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1149 | Carson thereupon fell out of the contest β or rather announced that he was not standing, for no official nominations had been made. | Two strong groups emerged behind Long and Chamberlain, about equal in numbers, but there were few backers for Carson or Law. | The party officers and Whips were solidly behind Chamberlain, but Law drew off some of his support among tariff reformers and, urged on by Edward Goulding and Max Aitken, he refused to withdraw unless his continued candidature would allow Long to win. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16614 | And I went down, I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to, I said to Robert now you know those shirts, that shirt I bought you for Christmas? | And he said yeah I said I could've got two for the price of one. |
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literal | left | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11534 | They were unlikely to be in real danger, the Whistler stalked at night, not in broad daylight, and no vehicle had passed him since he left the coastal road. | Instinctively he slowed down. | But the child looked grossly overburdened and ought not to be so far from home. |
literal | believe | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2043 | Would you agree with that or I find that hard to believe. | A niece of mine living in tells me that it's picking up slightly, the property market. | |
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20336 | When I insist on that priority, as I can tell you I most certainly will β with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so β then I'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that. | That will be the guiding light of the next Labour government. | |
literal | hide | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9510 | If Goodenache's frightened, and he wants to hide, that's as good a place as any . β | They wanted to go there. | |
literal | providing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15043 | Similarly, the assisting extends beyond simply providing handouts of useful information: | It is important that participants are provided with the skills to reduce their drinking levels or handle more effectively β pub centred β problems . The use of role play, incorporating previously discussed difficulties (i.e. homework assignment session 4) in β real β or set up situations provides an opportunity for testing these skills. |
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literal | buy | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2551 | We went to Tesco to buy some milk. | ||
literal | wasted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22429 | For all their bravery and resourcefulness, their information was often wasted, because Stalin didn't believe them. | We had centuries of contacts to fall back on. | But then, he found it difficult to believe anyone. |
metaphorical | join | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10321 | 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 | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20285 | Don't tell me you were too? | Chorlton or Chorlton cum Hardy if you want the full glory. | Whereabou |
metaphorical | back | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1754 | The police driver shot Jamie a look of enquiry which he missed, occupied as he was with guiding Miss Williams back up the hill. | He had seen her weep before but only for a sick horse, and he was awe-struck. |
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literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16730 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives, and Alexander, still lecturing, said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères, had torn up his own, had made do with the olives themselves. | Essentially I am not a " Van Gogh ". | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree, about noir-rouge, and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now, to cheer people up. |
metaphorical | overlooking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13964 | Gorgeous location overlooking a quiet bay. | I've seen the photographs. | It sleeps ten with a permanent staff of three. |
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18843 | The trees stood under their haloes of pink and green strokes, small flying things, solidified light movements or saccades of the eye, brushstrokes, pigment. | He told Daniel about the terrible St RΓ©my painting of the blasted tree, about noir-rouge, and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now, to cheer people up. | |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
47,
51
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16817 | No, you can't tell I wouldn't know, unless you said. | ||
literal | want | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
185,
189
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22061 | Anyway, erm we went to the Polly hadn't seen them in the shops anywhere and went to Caerphilly market on Saturday morning and as we were coming from it he said look there's a shirt you want for Robert there. | 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 | mind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13229 | Oh well never mind you'll come back later | ||
metaphorical | play | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
49,
53
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14364 | He loved the place and he returned every year to play an often small part as umpire of races between undistinguished clubs far below the Olympic standard he was obliged to administer. | But it was the spirit of Henley, with huge crowds enjoying amateur sport, presented with administrative finesse, which Keller took as the yardstick for the international circuit. | He said this summer that as he gradually wound down his involvement in sport, Henley would be the last thing he would give up. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
23
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17675 | If in doubt, ask to see proof of their membership. | Ask any agency you are considering using if they are a member of one of the above professional associations. | |
literal | seemed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
84,
90
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17927 | Post-war reconstruction and housing programmes seemed to do nothing to prevent, and seemed even to encourage, a rise in crime and mental illness. | Neither the Butler Education Act of 1944, nor the introduction of comprehensive schools, prevented a high proportion of children from under- achieving. | Meanwhile, in many parts of the country, a problem as old as cities themselves β tension between cultural groups, between earlier immigrants and newer ones, between black, brown, and white, and (increasingly) between large sections of urban youth and the police β came to be identified as the key inner-city issue. |
literal | needed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
38
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13522 | Cos he was desperate for cos he needed an answer for Monday morning for Dave. | Well I made sure my boss told her, that's. | |
literal | remember | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
35
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15988 | When I was young I I don't remember talking all the time about bloody health and what you should do and what you shouldn't do. | ||
literal | occurring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
358,
367
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13748 | Thus, at the global scale, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project (IGBP) to β describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system, the unique environment it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions β (Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986, quoted in IGBP 1988). | Scientists have both promoted and responded to the increasing interest in the environment. | |
literal | wrote | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
67,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.23076 | The Independent has learnt that 1,800 American Roman Catholic nuns wrote last winter to Dr Runcie, urging him to defy the Pope over the ordination of women. | Sister Margaret Traxler, of the National Coalition of American Nuns, said that she had told Dr Runcie: β The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity; but we say, how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil? β |
|
literal | draws | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
59,
64
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5343 | Shepherd, more than any other contributor to this section, draws attention to the extent to which current efforts in the geographic information management field are constrained by the highly fragmented nature of both data suppliers and users both in sectoral and spatial terms, the great diversity of data sets in varying formats and the difficulties presented by institutional factors such as copyright provision, data ownership and the control of access to data. | Digital data occupy a central position in this applications field and a number of examples are given to illustrate the extent to which their development has been hampered or facilitated in various countries by the policies of the organizations with responsibility for digital data provision. |
|
literal | improvised | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
90
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9814 | In Four Saints Thomson's informality was given free reign since he first of all improvised the music at the piano then, when it stuck, wrote it down to a figured bass. | First came Four Saints in Three Acts, produced in 1934, and then The Mother of Us All (1947), which demonstrated a new kind of plotless opera only now reaching a wider currency through the stage works of Philip Glass. | He said: β I had wondered whether a piece so drenched in Anglican chant (running from Gilbert and Sullivan to Morning Prayer and back) could rise and sail . β |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
241,
246
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20605 | Mr Smith's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone, the Labour MP for Brent East, who said on London Weekend Television's The Walden Interview: β You can be miles ahead in the polls, but when you get to the last three weeks, people think, β Can I afford a Labour government? β | We need to say now what we are going to spend: where the money is going to come from . β |
|
literal | occupied | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
272,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13715 | It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied. | Lord Justice Watkins said he agreed with reluctance. | |
literal | visited | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
145,
152
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21865 | Clare still swapped one night a week off with Stephanie and reported subsequent events to Gilda, who now managed the shoe shop: occasionally she visited Clare for an evening meal. | ||
metaphorical | constructed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
85,
96
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3999 | Plainly, this is a form of constructive criminal liability: the murder conviction is constructed out of the ingredients of a lesser offence. | Thus stated, there is no reference to the defendant's intention or awareness of the risks: the fact that D has chosen to commit rape, robbery, or another serious offence, and has caused death thereby, is held to constitute sufficient moral grounds for placing the killing in the highest category. | Presumably the justification is that D has already crossed a high moral/social threshold in choosing to commit such a serious offence, and should therefore be held liable for whatever consequences ensue, however unforeseeable they may be. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16686 | Ellen still said nothing. | I had straightened up and moved aside so that the sun no longer dazzled me and I could see Sweetman properly, and what I saw I did not like. |
|
literal | going | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
66,
71
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8323 | Mr Freeman said an appeal was β most unlikely, because we are not going to get any more evidence . β | ||
literal | include | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
61,
68
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9832 | Other spatially referenced data incorporated into the system include those on the distribution of schools, medical and transport services which can be displayed and supplementary information about them obtained. | Both sets of data were provided by Pinpoint Analysis Ltd, who are undertaking this digitizing task for the entire country. | The GIS permits population estimates to be made for any arbitrary rectangular region on the map. |
literal | try | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
184,
187
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21301 | We are not going to enquire into the details how such beams can be produced (it belongs to the subject of physical electronics); we shall accept the fact that the beam exists and will try to work out the forces on the outermost electrons. | In the present section we shall consider a cylindrical electron beam of radius a in which the charge density is uniform (p = Po) and all electrons travel with velocity v. | |
metaphorical | armed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
14,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1350 | An old woman, armed with a Sound Guide, became quite excited and pulled at the arm of another. | " Hey β look at that β Winston Churchill painted that, the β¦ " β carefully β " Cap d'Antibes . " |
|
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10993 | You know that . β | Examples often have to be made. | Mike started to stride up and down the room. |
literal | found | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6978 | I've found a super husband for Harriet. | β Next β¦ | Champion of the breed at Crufts last year. |
literal | according | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
199,
208
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.679 | Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live. | He describes the features of the four main systems that are currently in use in the UK and illustrates their application with reference to examples drawn from retail analysis and store location, market research, credit rating and target marketing. | |
metaphorical | swept | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
27,
32
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19838 | His small bright blue eyes swept disparagingly over the minimalized black and white flooring, stainless steel chairs and black wooden bar. | β I mean, they're not open twelve hours like my shops, and they aren't using the space . β | |
literal | observed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
74,
82
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13695 | β One thing we don't need in this subcontinent, β Professor Rokeya Kabeer observed, β is spiritual guidance β we have gurus a dime a dozen . β | The most irritating thing about Rytasha β and there were many β was that, though she does not speak their language, she presumes to teach them a spurious form of their own religion. | |
literal | told | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
21
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20917 | And he said, " I told you. | And I said, " Where are you going, then? " | To and fro . " |
literal | abiding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
230,
237
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.618 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place: β The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night, the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday, was not a cry for help but a cry for loot β (Financial Times, 13 September 1985). | The Chief Constable for the West Midlands, Geoffrey Dear, took this argument further by pointing out that the day before the riots a successful carnival had taken place, with the support of local community leaders. |
|
literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
158,
163
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11088 | Moreover, few would dispute that this apparent decline is a reality: the first words of the Prime Minister herself, after the result of the 1987 election was known, were an acknowledgement of the challenge posed to Government by the β inner cities β. | In short, if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere, and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes, the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration. | What has been lacking however β as well as the political will to do something β has been any shared agreement on the cause. |
literal | Obliged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
0,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.355 | Obliged to make polite conversation all the time oh! |
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