verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
complex/complicated
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The Australian health care system is extremely complex.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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extremely
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This sort of request has extremely complicated emotional, practical and social repercussions for the people who are left.
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In fact they can get extremely complicated .
further
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The issue is further complicated by the fact that many people remained inconsistent in their Jacobitism.
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And the situation was further complicated when Stewart requested that Bell buy out his share in Stax with cash.
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Re-melting and alloying further complicate the situation.
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This is further complicated by the above-mentioned color changes that occur with growth.
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The situation is further complicated because of the tensions created by conflicting expectations.
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The matter is further complicated when we note that meanings of words can vary across individual speakers within the same dialect.
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The situation is further complicated by recent and impending institutional mergers.
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The question of sexuality further complicates racialized encounters, such as racial harassment and violence.
greatly
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The resultant local variation in working arrangements has greatly complicated national assessment.
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Agglutinates greatly complicate the business of extracting useful materials from mature lunar regolith.
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This shuffling around of genes greatly complicates the analysis of evolution.
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For some centuries the first reason seemed simple, though it has been greatly complicated by the most recent technical developments.
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In both periods, the decision making of governments and enterprises was greatly complicated by the changes in the financial structure.
immensely
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Some of these complexes form immensely complicated sequences of nucleic acids which begin to replicate themselves.
less
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Life is much less complicated as far as Building Regulations approval is concerned.
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Far less complicated and far more innocent.
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The Houston couple chose an international adoption, because it was faster and less complicated .
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Nor did I realize that conversations were usually far less complicated than I supposed.
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The questions for the people are less complicated .
more
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But Schork's relationship with violence and human conflict was much more complicated and had far more depth.
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Barkley, to put it mildly, is a bit more complicated .
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Hitting smashes is slightly more complicated .
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The position regarding the Co-op is more complicated .
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The reason is that people are living longer and medical treatment is more complicated and therefore more costly.
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Real life is likely to prove rather more complicated , however.
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But this turns out to be another heated issue, far more complicated than I originally suspected.
quite
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The topological structure of the decision space can be quite complicated in even a fairly simple program.
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Algorithms taking these components into account are quite complicated .
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The cybernetic hive can get quite complicated .
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The issue can be quite complicated .
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A lot of the materials they use are quite complicated and do not have easy-to model properties.
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Even within a single processing element, these basic decisions about internal functions can become quite complicated .
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From what I can decipher from the papers, the preparation for escape alone is quite complicated .
so
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The flowchart, to explain how the chemicals are made, is so complicated it resembles a bowl of spaghetti.
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Why is everything human so complicated ?
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There was not time to have so complicated a measure thoroughly discussed in both Houses in a single session.
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Something so simple and yet so complicated .
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There is simply no justification for making law so complicated for the public.
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Sometimes the phenomena are so complicated or the evidence is so mixed that no generalization is possible.
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The problem is, the stuff gets so complicated that no one understands it.
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No one knows any more, the situation is so complicated .
too
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And they say bikes are too complicated to get on board.
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Unlike such symbols as the cross or spiral, the labyrinth seems too complicated to appear independently in different cultures.
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The roots of this deflation are too complicated for discussion here.
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Officials say it appears possible but may be too complicated .
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Not only have the alternatives proved too costly, they've also been too complicated to use.
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Some one had proposed something about her sister accompanying her on blocks, but that scheme was quickly dismissed as too complicated .
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For companies, the private work-out is better - as long as the claims that have to be reorganised are not too complicated .
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But the film tries to cover a subject far too complicated for its two-hour format.
very
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As for burial in a churchyard or a church service for the dead person, the position is again a very complicated one.
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All she would need to do would be to ask the subject to perform some very complicated arithmetical calculation.
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The rules themselves are very complicated .
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Only when the very complicated structure of the brain exists will smells come into existence.
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After all: which is a very complicated looking expression.
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A male moth flies upwind to a scent, and it goes through a very complicated repertoire to do it.
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The actual process of collecting was very complicated .
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This is a very complicated subject, and we do not propose to go into the matter.
■ NOUN
case
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The position may be complicated still further in cases where an officer of one authority is a councillor in another.
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The difference between what a complicated case of polio could cost and the amount a small county could raise could be staggering.
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The situation is more complicated in the case of incompatibility.
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The panel is expected to begin deliberating the complicated case later this week.
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We report on a case of thrombosis of a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm complicating chronic pancreatitis.
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Lawyers frequently make use of print displays to explicate the details of a complicated case .
fact
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The issue is further complicated by the fact that many people remained inconsistent in their Jacobitism.
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The situation was complicated by the fact that a further United Kingdom election was expected some time during the autumn.
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Use of acronyms is complicated by the fact that many now have multiple meanings.
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The position is further complicated by the fact that pressure groups can be closely or even officially associated with parties.
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Things were complicated by the fact that Bodnar was due in at the Venice airport.
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The analysis was complicated slightly by the fact that some of the top 20 firms had registered with more than one regulator.
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Their lives were complicated by the fact that each was working on other projects at the same time.
issue
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The readerly subjectivity condition marginally complicates the issue , but the autonomous nature of the situation remains.
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My notion is that the complicated issue of welfare is the biggest problem facing this nation and this society at this time.
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The enormously complicated issue comes under the code name the Half-Way Covenant.
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But it is exactly the complicated , technical issue that will make or break Kyoto.
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On some other questions about politics, description requires assessments that raise complicated issues about power, interests, and values.
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This tends to complicate the tax issues .
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This complicates the issue of choice but is essentially a good thing from the point of view of potential students.
life
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He so disliked them that when he became archbishop it complicated his life .
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Still, a complicated life may be the perfect reason to start a new one.
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I hazard a guess that there are not only pure stallions on the moor; fate and carelessness always complicates herd life .
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Inevitably I fell for him, thereby complicating my life horrendously and introducing an unexpected wild card into his.
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It is a sophisticated introduction to Weil, to the complicated life and mind in a short space.
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The removal of the cupboard and the sealing up of the women's rest-room had seriously complicated his life .
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Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life .
matter
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Inevitable political interest in local development will also continue to complicate matters .
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This does not invalidate Freud's approach, but it does complicate matters more than he suggests.
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Reviews instances in which the Agency's activities have complicated matters or deterred developers from going ahead.
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The other valentines were a more complicated matter .
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To complicate matters some cells behave linearly under some conditions and non-linearly under others.
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For many novices, the mechanics of sending e-mail are a complicated matter .
picture
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A further element may enter here to complicate the picture .
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But then, as so often happens in science, more research complicated the picture .
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It is largely this lag that initiates demographic transition but other factors undoubtedly complicate the picture .
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Several of the determinants of the demand for physician services have complicated the picture by dramatically changing over the last two decades.
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But other factors complicate the picture .
position
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Other rules further complicate the position .
problem
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Information systems simultaneously simplify and complicate the problem .
process
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It was then that she reflected how complicated a process it was, this travelling by tube.
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But these raw ingredients complicated the process .
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The new editorial policy complicates the process of producing authorised versions, but it does not substantially change it.
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This is a complicated process , since what is possible depends heavily on what we believe.
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The organizational complexity of such a state necessarily complicates the implementation process .
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The suddenness of the death in a disaster like this complicates the mourning process .
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Although calibration complicates the process of interpreting the radiocarbon results, it is essential.
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With that behind it, the project will continue a lengthy and complicated approval process .
question
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But he soon discovered its factory answers to the complicated questions he put to them.
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For the provincial press, any calculation is complicated by questions of market boundaries and different types of publication.
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But the decision the President had to make was more subtle and politically complicated than any question of scheduling or agenda.
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A larger, more complicated set of questions then came to replace the first simple questions.
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This volatility might be due to limited interest or to the sheer difficulty of trying to understand complicated political questions . 5.
situation
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Re-melting and alloying further complicate the situation .
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Many of his difficulties now look like an honest attempt to find simple patterns in complicated situations .
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Sarah, who lived near to the Brompton Hospital, visited her father regularly although Raine's hostility complicated an already fraught situation .
structure
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Only when the very complicated structure of the brain exists will smells come into existence.
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Such experiences are not accidental by-products of complicated physical structures .
system
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The complicated tariff system loosely based on distance, bandwidth and utility will be replaced by simpler mechanisms.
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Some slippage in deadlines is to be expected when overhauling something as complicated as an operating system .
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In a complicated system , though, tinkering with one component can put another one out of kilter.
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Economic systems and the concepts used in economics can seem as complicated as political systems and the concepts used in political science.
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The formalism of quantum mechanics makes no distinction, in this respect, between single particles and complicated systems of many particles.
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Humans, however, being relatively enormous, must rely on a complicated waste-elimination system .
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Why not allow other symbols from some more complicated numbering system or alphabet?
task
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This will further complicate the task of the police and further deter victims from reporting.
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Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
tax
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This tends to complicate the tax issues.
things
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What complicates things , though, is the existence within the official economy of several different kinds of shops.
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But this was no time to complicate things by being sidetracked by Ian.
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Of course, complicated things consist of lots of simpler things.
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Plant and animal cells are complicated things .
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Swarms highlight the complicated side of real things .
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But this will delay and complicate things .
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The proper awareness required to appreciate the swarm nature of complicated things might be called hive mind.
■ VERB
become
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He so disliked them that when he became archbishop it complicated his life.
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But if little has changed about the way tobacco is farmed, the aggravations have become deeper and more complicated .
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When a science gets to the end of the road it becomes too complicated for its own good.
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He needed time to think; everything had become complicated .
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Force two females to share a nest, and things become more complicated .
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At this point, following the cash budget becomes slightly more complicated .
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Defining the Long Mynd becomes even more complicated .
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Even within a single processing element, these basic decisions about internal functions can become quite complicated .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
too silly/complicated/ridiculous etc for words
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A student who has no desire to learn greatly complicates the teacher's job.
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Far from helping the situation, the new regulations are likely to complicate matters.
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I don't need a boyfriend - they just complicate your life.
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The continued fighting has complicated the peace negotiations.
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Williams died on Monday from a heart condition complicated by pneumonia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Re-melting and alloying further complicate the situation.