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literal | delegated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4661 | Often a member of the group was delegated to advise parents on a course of action. | This included deciding between day care or school, and parents' attitudes to different options. | |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12426 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency, which was due to end next year, was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind. | He had recently travelled from Tasmania to Norway in search of the perfect 2,000 metres of flat water. |
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literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7937 | Did we, we go to Edith's to see her then did we not? | ||
metaphorical | bridged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2324 | Such a move towards greater political integration was seen by Lord Scarman as essential if the gap between inner-city residents and the forces of law and order was to be bridged. | The Scarman Report, for example, contained the following policy proposal: β I recommend that local communities must be fully and effectively involved in planning, in the provision of local services, and in the management and financing of specific projects, (Scarman, 1981, para. 8.44). | But the concern with overcoming political marginality remained on the sidelines of the main public debate because it questioned the perception of the rioters as driven by irrational, uncivilized, and criminal instincts. |
literal | sensing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18174 | As the need for more extensive, high-resolution yet consistent and up-to-date data becomes more pressing, increased use of remote sensing seems inevitable. | No other data collection methodology obviates the short distance variation in data sets induced by variations in data collection and aggregation methodology typically encountered between adjacent nation states. |
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literal | taking | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20127 | I mean I think er, when your blood pressure was found out and you'd been taking tablets ever, so, I think it's kept it all under control and you've, you, we eat a sensible diet. | Ah well I, well, laugh I wouldn't say that really Gordon. | The only, the only er thing I complained about with you is, is the butter. |
metaphorical | rose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16452 | The shares rose 10p to 170p. | Capital spending of Β£43 million should reach a total of Β£87 million for the full year. | |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20542 | I think I'm going to have I will have gained weight when | No it was fine it was very good. | |
literal | brought | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2412 | I brought for Andy didn't you? | Oh I didn't show you it. |
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literal | analyse | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1138 | Hobeika and Jamei (1985) describe the MASSeVACuation (MASSVAC) simulation software designed to analyse and evaluate traffic evacuation plans given a natural disaster in an urban area. | The system comprises three interrelated modules: community and disaster type characteristics module; population distribution module; network evacuation module. |
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literal | caused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2977 | Yet even the gashes were not so ugly as the expensive boat that had caused them. | There was nothing wrong with the boat's lines, which were sleekly functional, but her long powerful hull, her upperworks, and even the interior of her capacious working deck had all been painted with a wartime dazzle paint. |
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literal | die | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5036 | And to die in one's sleep without distress to oneself or inconvenience to others is an enviable end. | I expect that for an ornithologist death ceases to be terrible once sight and hearing begin to go. | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . β |
literal | undone | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21552 | And when he had undone her gown, and had difficulty in lifting it over her head, she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off. | She lay quiescent and felt his strong fingers, quicker now, move to unfasten the buttons of her shift one by one. | Then he pulled down the sheet, which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night, and she lay naked before him. |
literal | failing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6302 | The policeman talked, the reporter trying to jog him into revelations and failing. | In the background, autumnal trees could be seen and a church on the summit of a low hill. |
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literal | Putting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.397 | Putting it into gear, his arm brushed her knee. | Without another word she went back into the kitchen then came out to him, closed the front door after her without locking it and got into the car. | He was aware of an almost imperceptible withdrawing, more emotional than physical, a small delicate gesture of self-containment. |
metaphorical | snapped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18801 | β Help me secure the stairs behind us, β he snapped at Lawton, β as much as we can . β | ||
literal | left | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11524 | Just before five o'clock, when the business session had ended and the afternoon was still hot, quiet, and heavy with languor, Buzz left to get some tea. | ||
literal | stood | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19330 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away. | At some point Rufus himself had taken the things out of the fridge and left the door open to defrost it. | |
metaphorical | explain | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6137 | Amiel is the first reputable dealer to be prosecuted, but more than 100 others as well as auction houses across America are now under subpoena to explain what they thought they were selling. | And the prints have been sold across Europe β there's been one arrest in Denmark already β including Britain. |
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literal | Mind | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.340 | Mind you, she's like that, better get | ||
literal | tackled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19876 | And I'd look on the field and it was his brother who'd been tackled . β | Just like that. | |
metaphorical | sort | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18873 | so she I, I'll sort you out | ||
literal | stopping | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19399 | I I think they'd been on holiday and, she took ill on the holiday and, and came erm, she was stopping at erm, Edith's and er it happened then. | Yeah. | |
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12112 | They looked at the β man β Forster had found. | It was a safety suit, an advanced model of the NBC type with its own oxygen tanks. |
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literal | seen | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18088 | β Giles rang up, β his daughter volunteered, and he was uncomfortably reminded by something in her voice that Giles Hawick was one of the men Jennifer hadn't been able to hang on to β or not once he had seen Angela. | ||
literal | hold | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9547 | Can you, yeah go on no you hold my hand please no running away, no running away there's too many cars alright. | ||
literal | turns | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21455 | Joyriders used front lawns to practise their handbrake turns. | Car theft became so common that private cars virtually disappeared from the area. |
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literal | rose | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16446 | 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 | described | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4827 | The β conversion β of the UK government has been briefly described earlier; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend Β£10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) for an extra Β£11m. in 1990 and Β£13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research. | Such a commitment to the environment is, none the less, both welcome and necessary if resources are to be made available to tackle existing, let alone forthcoming, environmental problems. | |
literal | used | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21678 | If so, we are dealing with a more Quixotic, romantic or principled figure than some of us used to think. | Is it possible that Major would rather go into opposition β with the dangers that would mean for his continued leadership of the Conservative party β than offer PR and Scottish devolution to the Liberal Democrats? | |
metaphorical | began | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1954 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day, which began with careful, detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories, and continued, usually by helicopter, with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites, interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit. | ||
literal | crusading | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4394 | But in the twelfth century, the house of Alsace could afford the high costs of their expeditions β Thierry went to Jerusalem four times, Philip twice β and the counts' repeated absences in fact promoted administrative reform; the baillis and the Grote Bref were as much the products of crusading as the English and Norman judicial system and exchequers were the product of the king-duke's divided attentions. | In the end, it was not in Outremer but in the newly conquered Byzantine empire that the Flemish crusading achievement was crowned with the elevation of Count Baldwin IX to the imperial throne in 1204. | |
literal | eat | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5521 | I don't eat that much bread you see. | ||
literal | supporting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19719 | 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. | Consider the structure of their legs. | 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. |
literal | nodded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13608 | He nodded. | ||
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12102 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll, and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home. | Mark Sanders returned from Istanbul feeling exhausted, depressed and ill. | |
literal | caused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2959 | It must be proved that the defendant's act or omission caused the death of the victim within a year and a day. | English law distinguishes between the offences of murder and manslaughter, as we shall see, but the two crimes do have certain common elements. | (The requirements of causation in the criminal law are discussed elsewhere.) |
metaphorical | assisted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1584 | His personal preference for sculling over rowing assisted the introduction of quadruple sculls to world championship and Olympic competition. | ||
literal | won | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22782 | They've already won a two man bobsleigh. | No. | |
literal | called | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2614 | Ellen called warningly, as though I might not have seen the gun. | β Nick! β | |
literal | instil | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10082 | To instil or reinforce responsible drinking attitudes and behaviour. | ||
literal | started | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19195 | She's done started it already. | ||
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20367 | story time I think, Mrs still there and that Mrs did he tell you | ||
literal | surrounding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19790 | You will realise that this combination of red-ochre, of green gloomed over by grey, the black streaks surrounding the contours, produces something of the sensation of anguish, called " noir-rouge " from which certain of my companions in misfortune frequently suffer | ||
literal | live | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11882 | This woman was adventurous and ambitious: such pilots did not live long. | β Quite a smooth landing, β the instructor said approvingly He hesitated, then warned, β Next time be careful not to land too fast or you'll run out of two lexial units; [run out] = phrasal runway . β | He added, β Careful pilots are the ones that survive. |
literal | unpack | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21565 | If it is fairly small it may be necessary to describe how to unpack it, fix it into position, connect it to power supplies and start it up. | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly. | If it is large, the emphasis will be on the start up procedure. |
metaphorical | lost | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12264 | The passages it cancelled had, in any case, as in certain programmes, not been lost but stored on some limbo disc from whence they must now be retrieved. | It was defunct. | |
metaphorical | gave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7155 | It was a substantial, two-storey, L-shaped house standing to the east of the track with walls partly flint and partly rendered, enclosing at the rear a courtyard of York stone which gave an uninterrupted view over fifty yards of scrub to the grassy dunes and the sea. | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now, driving up to it, it struck him again that the description β cottage β was hardly appropriate. | No one appeared as he drew up and, before lifting his hand to the bell, he paused to read the words of a stone plaque embedded in the flints to the right of the door. |
metaphorical | reckoned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15589 | In Southend, where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons, it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property, and the battle of one councillor, Christopher Hudson, to break the grip of the men on the Square: β We can't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy, β he said. | ||
literal | stepped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19293 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture, then, as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker, he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at, then sat on, one of the white cushioned seats by the ship's wheel. | Precautions will not conquer empires, they will not build great cities, they will not transmute dreams into gold or carry men across wide oceans, and precautions will not, emphatically not, win fair ladies, β and here he turned to Ellen and lasciviously dropped his gaze to her long bare legs. | β I've had a look round the boat, β he said very coolly, β and I approve of her. |
literal | trudged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21266 | The valley of the White Kielder Burn steepened again as I trudged north, its curves tightening. | Now the path ran through heather high above the burn, past circular sheepfolds long disused and over the stony beds of side streams where the grass hung smooth and inviting, concealing ankle-breaking drops. |
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literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10923 | Very few know their MP is a Conservative, and hardly anyone that his name is Neville Trotter, defender of a slender 2,500 majority. | They are mostly Labour voters but several confuse their Labour candidate with the leader of the Liberal Democrats. | |
literal | seems | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17980 | Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence. | The very old, he thought, make our past. | He said: β I don't think death was ever terrible to her. |
literal | indicate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9965 | In no way, however, does this invalidate the need for microscale studies β for instance, while global data sets may indicate the extent of algal blooms and may suggest causes of them, only detailed study of the algae themselves can provide understanding of why the bloom is occurring. | 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). | |
metaphorical | getting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7548 | Kinnock was saying to erm the candidates, you know, we I realize that a lot of you are getting it rough at the moment, cos there's about five Labour | ||
metaphorical | considering | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3952 | Odd, he thought, considering that Van Gogh himself had died mad and despairing in such surroundings. | He had seen these ample fields, as he had seen Cezanne's geometric brown and green undergrowth in more than one mental hospital day room. | Not serene, overexcited, these fields. |
metaphorical | concentrated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3795 | The second, and complementary, part of the Intifada strategy concentrated on the construction of an indigenous national authority. | As Israel's authority was being lifted, the population began creating an alternative authority of their own. |
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literal | given | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7745 | Hobeika and Jamei (1985) describe the MASSeVACuation (MASSVAC) simulation software designed to analyse and evaluate traffic evacuation plans given a natural disaster in an urban area. | The system comprises three interrelated modules: community and disaster type characteristics module; population distribution module; network evacuation module. |
|
literal | went | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22618 | She went to a local letting agency, Landlords of 41 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London E2, who found a tenant that day. | DEBBIE ADAMS had to let her East End terrace house in London in a hurry when her husband was re-located to Ireland with two months' notice. | She also employed Landlords to manage the let. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17112 | β You don't mean that, β she said, stepping away from him. | ||
literal | tell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20299 | I tell you what, that's quick int it though Gordon? | With only going in last night and |
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literal | specialized | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18966 | This is particularly important in a field where many of the demands made by users are highly specialized in nature. | Other major research priorities for the future in this applications field are the development of response-modelling techniques to explore the factors affecting consumer choice. | |
metaphorical | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12589 | 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 | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8765 | No, who's got a blue van? | ||
literal | called | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2655 | What is it called? | Near the other side of the motorway. | Westland? |
literal | tending | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20406 | But there were new-born lambs in the sheep pens of Scaup, and a cheery β Hello now β from the farmer and his wife tending them. | Spring comes late to this wind bitten and rain-soaked valley. | |
literal | princes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14749 | The net effect was that, given dedication, princes β Louis VI, Geoffrey le Bel, Alphonse-Jourdain β could subdue rebellious castellans within their own demesnes, and could build castles of their own which were impregnable to all but lengthy and sustained attack. | Equally, the improvements in fortification needed to withstand their effects β thick stone walls, inner as well as outer defences β required incomes greater than those of simple lords. | Henry II's castle at Chinon, where the treasury of Anjou was situated, was the model for its generation, with its halls, upper chambers, tower, and curtain walling, set on a high point above a strategic crossing of the Loire. |
literal | beginning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1985 | He sees them as not only strengthening small communities, but also as actually beginning to reverse the population flows from the countryside to the towns. | Britain, with its growing traffic problems, seems an ideal place for the onset of this revolution. |
|
literal | included | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9858 | The analyst is then forced on the defensive, explaining why new features cannot be included because they are technically difficult or prohibitively expensive. | The process becomes demand driven by the user. | |
metaphorical | get | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7234 | And you get to know people, that basically | you know, to the localities, you know? | |
literal | laughed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11265 | She laughed with him. | Don't ask me why . β | β He's cheap, too. |
metaphorical | consumed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4014 | The selectors knew they were playing with fire when they decided to arrange a couple of club fixtures and they have duly been consumed in a conflagration of their own making. | EACH new indignity in the heap visited on Welsh rugby seems worse than the last. | The New Zealanders, appropriately garbed in funereal black, arrive next week to scatter the ashes. |
metaphorical | saying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17404 | No great skill or intellectual effort is required, which is one way of saying that the human operator is being under-used, but the purpose of a routine is usually to avoid common human error such as omitting a step or reversing steps. | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction. | In general the value of formal routines is precisely that the operator, left to himself, will not normally function in such a systematic sequential manner. |
metaphorical | goes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8215 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin, Aragonese, and French kings; and why the revolts of Henry II's sons had widespread ramifications. | A royal banner now bestowed respectability on a cause; kings' wars were assumed to be for the sake of peace, even when cripplingly expensive and increasingly savage. | |
metaphorical | worry | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
20,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22985 | Yeah haven't got to worry. | ||
literal | hurtling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
49
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9657 | A neat step-over by Rocastle sent Thomas hurtling in on goal but Rhodes moved sharply off his line to smother the shot. | Arsenal had no choice but to attack as soon as the second half began. | From the resulting corner Rhodes made another fine save, hurtling to his right to deflect away Dixon's rising shot. |
literal | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12564 | Never make up for a | Heavy this is. | |
literal | used | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
70,
74
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21652 | Based in Switzerland and named after the three transmitters that they used. | The Red Three. | The most important source of information, from agents inside Germany, was from a group under Rudolf Roessler. |
literal | involve | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
66,
73
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10226 | A major feature of these applications is the extent to which they involve overlays of a variety of information drawn from different sources on a topographic map base. | The first three chapters dealing with environmental monitoring, natural and technological hazards and settlements and infrastructure applications make use of a very wide range of geographic information. | for this reason they make particularly heavy demands on current GIS technology both because of the size of the data sets and the diversity of the data structures that are involved. |
metaphorical | resort | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16234 | The law must resort to some kind of moral and social evaluation of conduct if it is to identify and separate out the most heinous killings. | The point is that the traditional concepts of intention and recklessness do not, of themselves, appear to be sufficiently well focused to mark out those killings which are the most heinous. | Many people might think that a person who causes death whilst using an unlawfully held firearm or explosives ought to be convicted of murder because there is, generally speaking, no excuse for using such dangerous equipment. |
literal | come | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
13,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3468 | Said said he come from the that and all. | I know. | |
literal | activated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
41,
50
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.781 | You know which one it, it is, it sort of activated one. | ||
metaphorical | coupled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
101,
108
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4271 | But her desire to provide a period of stability for nearly one million people employed by the NHS is coupled with a fierce determination to maintain the momentum of reform, with the overwhelming majority of hospitals becoming self-governing trusts by the mid-1990s. | ||
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
22,
25
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18126 | β The man you want to see, β I said, β is called Matthew McIllvanney and his office is the pink building with the outside staircase. | He's not here this afternoon, but you can doubtless telephone him next week . β |
|
metaphorical | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
8
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2723 | She came up and kissed him. | Fifties and post-impressionist, thought Alexander, connecting. | He remarked on the parody -young. |
metaphorical | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
21,
24
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17660 | I knew you wanted to see how far you could go . β | β She was in hospital for six weeks, and I was the only one who knew it wasn't an accident. | |
literal | go | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
16,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8135 | Well I'd better go and get changed hadn't I? | ||
literal | known | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
132,
137
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11077 | 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. |
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
29,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16981 | β A few days, β the sergeant said, grimly. | ||
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11599 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia. | More than 80 years later, Lenin's heirs are allowing refugees from their Communist regime escape in the opposite direction, in an East German-made train travelling across East German territory. |
|
literal | result | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
49
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16272 | Changes in political priorities may simply result in the need for informed guesswork if suitable data are not available. | ||
literal | won | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
46,
49
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22783 | 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 | beg | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
17,
20
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1950 | Could we borrow, beg or invent one? | Do the Greeks have a word for it? | |
metaphorical | dreamt | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
36,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5350 | Maybe it's the only thing they ever dreamt about . β | They never stopped being Germans. | |
metaphorical | reduced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
119,
126
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15702 | There could also be controversy over the executive's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years. | ||
literal | ate | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
4,
7
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1654 | She ate placidly, acknowledging to herself with her customary good sense that at the moment, as at any time since her brother William had died, she and Penelope were getting no pleasure at all from each other's company. | Mrs Huntley was having lunch with her daughter. | Penelope was looking particularly discontented and disaffected, picking at her food. |
metaphorical | hang | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
15,
19
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9158 | In saying that hang on, no, hang on. | ||
literal | seemed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
57,
63
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17914 | I mean no one noticed anything unusual about her and she seemed to be full of plans for the wedding . β | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she β¦ well β¦ vanished, and so far had come up with nothing. | |
literal | live | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
7,
11
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11864 | Did we live in Ashton Lane then? | Aye, that's right. | |
literal | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
58,
64
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21413 | Metaphor lay coiled in the name sunflower, which not only turned towards but resembled the sun, the source of light. | Language was against him, for a start. |
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