extracting the syntac­ 
tic frames  in which the  verb occurs  in corpus 
data,  rather  than  manual analysis of each verb, 
as was done in this study.
  We have also examined  a mapping  between 
the  English  verbs that  we have discussed  and 
their  Portuguese  translations, which have sev­ 
eral of the same properties  as the corresponding 
verbs in English.  Most of these verbs take the 
same alternations as in English and,  by virtue 
of these alternations, achieve the same regular 
sense extensions.
  There are still many questions that require 
further  investigation.    First,  since our  experi­ 
ment  was based on a translation from EnglishA former director of public prosecutions has launched a strident attack on the head of MI5 for using "foolish self-serving rhetoric" to resist legitimate calls for Britain's intelligence agencies to face more scrutiny in the face of revelations about their surveillance capabilities.

Lord Macdonald QC said it was wrong for Andrew Parker and other senior figures in the intelligence community to argue that greater scrutiny and more transparency would affect the ability of MI5, GCHQ and MI6 to do their work.

Arguing that the existing legislation governing the services was "anti-modern", the peer, now a defence lawyer, said that an urgent review of the oversight regime was needed to prevent an "an increasing subservience of democracy to the unaccountability of security power".

Writing in the Guardian, Macdonald was responding to Parker's