I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a complex creature (= consisting of many different parts )
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Human beings are extremely complex creatures.
a complex equation
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New factors are beginning to affect what is an already complex equation.
a difficult/complex issue
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He was able to grasp complex issues quickly.
a difficult/complex subject (= very complicated )
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Immigration is a complex subject.
a guilt complex (= when you cannot stop feeling guilty, although it is unnecessary )
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Some of the survivors developed a guilt complex. Why had they lived when others had died?
a leisure centre/complex (= a place where you can play sports etc )
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The local leisure centre has a swimming pool and a sauna.
a resort complex (= a group of buildings, or a large building with many parts )
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Club Hotel is part of a resort complex offering a range of facilities.
an apartment complex (= a group of buildings containing apartments )
complex calculations
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Computers can be used to handle complex calculations.
complex
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Getting a visa can be a complex process.
complex/complicated
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The Australian health care system is extremely complex.
inferiority complex
Oedipus complex
persecution complex
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■ ADVERB
extremely
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Most of the difficulty stems from the fact that an eruption is an extremely complex phenomenon.
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But on Macintosh it becomes extremely complex .
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Technicality Libel law has been allowed to become extremely complex .
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A tester can have no confidence that unexamined values in extremely complex systems will perform continuously with examined values.
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A simple five-figure number might conceal extremely complex chemistry.
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Any mind capable of designing such an intricately structured universe as this would have to be extremely complex .
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The process of sense selection is, of course, extremely complex , with many interacting factors.
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From what we have said so far, you will conclude correctly that the task of the news director is extremely complex .
highly
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However, most of these methods paid insufficient attention to the highly complex nature of landscape values, while overemphasizing scenic attractiveness.
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But the components for Worldwide Plaza were already highly complex when they arrived on site.
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Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution.
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The Aborigines have a highly complex civilization, one that has existed for 60, 000 years.
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Technology transfer is highly complex and often misunderstood.
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Rather, it reflects the need for different conceptualizations to cover the different dimensions of a highly complex phenomenon.
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Yet beer - good beer - is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine.
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The most difficult phase was the analysis of cognitive processes in fault-finding in such a highly complex process plant.
increasingly
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Second, the information technology market is becoming increasingly complex .
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Subsequent period-doubling bifurcations appear as r is increased, resulting in increasingly complex periodic solutions.
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The adventure will become increasingly complex , deadly and demanding as it progresses.
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Very enjoyable when young, but increasingly complex with bottle age.
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During the past decade fundraisers' search for new donors has been increasingly complex and expensive.
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With Gibbons to guide me, I examine them one by one, and my salads grow increasingly complex .
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Even the General Staff is but one actor in an increasingly complex policy process.
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But it was the omnipresent manufacturer's logo woven into increasingly complex designs that really offended the fashion police.
■ NOUN
carbohydrate
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Certain types or parts of complex carbohydrates are indigestible: they form the fibre which adds bulk to food.
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Potatoes are a rich source of fat-free complex carbohydrates .
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Pasta contains complex carbohydrates so takes time to be digested.
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Per serving: 416 calories, 3 grams saturated fat, 9 grams polyunsaturated fat, 24 grams complex carbohydrates .
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Despite its limitations, the breath H 2 test is the only acceptable non-invasive method to estimate complex carbohydrate malabsorption in humans.
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Per serving: 344 calories, 7 g saturated fat, 2 g polyunsaturated fat, 30 g complex carbohydrates .
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Hence complex carbohydrates are better for bodybuilders and athletes.
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In truth, these additives are harmless complex carbohydrates added in small portions to improve texture.
issue
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It is important however to clarify some of the points made in relation to this often complex issue .
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Television generally simplifies complex issues by using specific and dramatic examples to explain a topic.
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The results of this investigation should help to clarify some of the complex issues involved in the debate on gender and schooling.
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But the Whitewater affair is serious stuff although hardly anyone understands the complex issues involved.
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There are a number of complex issues bound up with this particular matter, ontological and epistemological, practical as well as theoretical.
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Peter was one of those rare souls who seemed to have an instant understanding of the most complex issues .
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That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue .
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Reyes Heroles is well-respected for his ability to quickly grasp complex issues .
numbers
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Remember that elsewhere our formalism contains complex numbers .
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We shall need complex numbers later.
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This is worth unravelling, even at the expense of a brief excursion into the mathematical realm of complex numbers .
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A key ingredient of this proof was to represent the complex numbers geometrically, and then to use a topological argument.
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Actually, Gauss was not really the first to use a geometrical description of complex numbers .
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Ten complex numbers specify the state of the particle.
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We shall be seeing that the complex numbers that we must use at the quantum level are closely related to classical probabilities.
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The Argand plane simply provides us with a way of organizing our family of complex numbers into a geometrically useful picture.
pattern
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It might apply to Hopkins' architecture, too, which has similarly evolved into richer and more complex patterns .
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All this makes a complex pattern , but complex in therapy only if one does not know the source of aberration.
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But Shakespeare is capable of more complex patterns .
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The black pipes interlocked in complex patterns from the low ceiling above mountains of mats.
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Bright colours and complex patterns help to make this possible.
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Political cultures to refer to those in which there are significant proportions of both the simpler and more complex patterns of orientations.
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What you get from it is a graph showing a complex pattern of forces.
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The evidence, however, reveals a much more complex pattern .
problem
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Alas, it was not nearly so simple, and many more complex problems remained to be solved.
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The three ravening bolts of fury launching themselves at him now, presented an entirely more complex problem .
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Only 6 percent could consistently solve relatively complex problems involving geometric relationships, algebra, or functions.
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We must beware of hysterical solutions to complex problems urged by people whose real motive is often hatred of industry and capitalism.
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It is impossible to take a complex problem and rationally unravel the mess into logical interacting pieces.
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There is no simple solution to this complex problem .
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The Web community of developers and users is tackling these complex problems .
process
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This has turned out to be a protracted, complex process , as reoccupation had not been finalised by July 2000.
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Piot said the commitment to very low drug prices is only one step in a complex process .
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It shows how a complex process can be distilled into a simple framework, generating documentation that can be easily audited.
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But that was often a complex process , necessitating a lawyer and a lot of time.
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This is a complex process , requiring 15-20 separate genes.
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Perhaps in the future we may come to better understand more complex processes , such as memory and learning.
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This is not a point which arises because the diagram oversimplifies a complex process .
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It can therefore be a valuable aid to the better understanding and management of what is inevitably a very complex process .
relationship
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Beatrice's column of 11 February 1915 gives fascinating clues to their complex relationship .
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Hajdu sheds new, revelatory light on the complex relationship between Strayhorn and Ellington.
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This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.
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They permit clear expression and handling of sometimes complex relationships .
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This can lead to unpredictable effects since genes operate in highly complex relationships which are barely understood.
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The complex relationships among cabinet, legislature, and prime minister merit further detail.
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In an earlier chapter we described a few of the complex relationships which exist between different species and different kingdoms of nature.
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Co. as the enemy, the two computing giants have always had a more complex relationship than their sparring would indicate.
sentence
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We will be employing an eye-tracking technique to study reading of complex sentences .
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
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Credit will be given for the appropriate use of complex sentences , punctuation and vocabulary, and for grammatical accuracy.
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So you should entertain the possibility of communicating more complex thoughts by building more complex sentences .
set
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He constructs a complex set of interrelationships between the different ethnic groups.
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Less obvious is the fact that Table 7-6 implies a complex set of financial linkages which exist between nations.
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This complex set of rules could produce the relation shown as Figure 3.28.
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Local authorities probably face the most complex set of responsibilities.
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The following three years saw a complex set of political manoeuvres, centred largely on the control of various cities of Aquitaine.
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It is not a comprehensive overview of all aspects of a complex set of issues.
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You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances.
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As we have seen in the preceding chapters, language development gives rise to a complex set of interrelated abilities.
structure
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Some of the more complex structures may have had suspended timber floors.
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This barrier is a complex structure that prevents many drugs and chemicals in the blood from entering the brain.
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The House considered the complex structure point in D &038; F Estates.
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But at the time that complex structure was established, few anticipated the gusher of money about to erupt.
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Young baboons are reared in social units of complex structure .
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The obvious conclusion is that the complex structures must be explained in terms of the conscious states they seem developed to produce.
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The idea of a complex structure can be applied to equipment manufactured by different suppliers, e.g. central heating boilers.
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It was at this time too that W. L. Bragg was beginning to unravel the complex structures of the crystalline silicates.
system
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Already it is difficult to predict what will happen when you plug two large and complex systems together.
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They saw their first glimpse of the earth as a complex system with checks and balances, inputs and outputs.
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In most complex systems the sources of variation are likely to be numerous.
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A tester can have no confidence that unexamined values in extremely complex systems will perform continuously with examined values.
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The idea is that large, complex systems are often made up of a single, simple shape repeated over and again.
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Artificial complex systems will be deliberately infused with organic principles simply to keep them going.
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Recent work on the silver coinage has revealed a complex system of which even Domesday contains little trace.
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In part this is because it is an inherently more complex system .
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a complex mathematical formula
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a complex personality
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Few people understand the complex issues of environmental science.
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The chemical processes involved in the experiment are extremely complex .
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The seminar focuses on the complex relationship between government, the military, and the media.
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There is a complex network of roads connecting the two cities.
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Alcohol is actually much more complex .
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And as I mentioned earlier, the social laws are more complex and less certain than the natural ones.
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During the past decade fundraisers' search for new donors has been increasingly complex and expensive.
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It is for building more and more complex bodies.
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Of course this is not necessarily the case in a more complex setting such as memory for driving situations.
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So the simplest explanation is the one that can include the whole range of complex elements within one integral and harmonious scheme.
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The issues here are complex and evolving.
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Yet not only was the urban population rapidly increasing, it was becoming ever more complex and articulate.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
entire
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The entire complex is surrounded by a ten-foot Cyclone fence crowned with multiple rows of barbed wire.
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The entire complex is surrounded by 10-foot-high chain-link fencing.
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The entire complex would be built at a cost of $ 110 million.
huge
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She was the sole heiress to a huge complex of imperial fiefs and lands in Tuscany, Emilia and Lombardy.
industrial
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Driving through the mine is like visiting some futuristic industrial complex on another planet.
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Large construction projects, like an office building or industrial complex for example, are too complicated for one person to supervise.
large
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Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages.
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In 1981 the first large timeshare complex opened at Langdale, helped by a tourist board grant.
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The park is part of a large complex which has just a single access on to the busy main road.
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In the larger complexes , where there is space, popular blockbusters often occupy three or even four of the available screens.
new
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A new complex of buildings has been built on the outskirts of the city.
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We think people will want to go to a newer , bigger complex to see a movie.
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The new complex will mean even more facilities for local women, under one roof.
whole
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The whole complex is only a few hundred years old.
■ NOUN
apartment
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They encircle many of the city's apartment complexes .
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Police Sunday did not reveal whether the suspect they arrested early Sunday at an apartment complex was the man in the photograph.
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The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops.
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Next time, it was a man on foot who circled the fence around the eight-story apartment complex .
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Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.
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Next door, contractors Jeannine and Jack Perriseau are re-building another apartment complex that also was destroyed by the quake.
entertainment
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Preliminary plans also include a 2,100-room themed hotel, restaurants, retail and entertainment complexes .
guilt
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Right and wrong must be standardised, or there will always be people who have the burden of guilt complexes .
leisure
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Castlemore is developing the 21 ha site for a Tesco superstore, retail outlet and a leisure complex .
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Nowadays, prisons are like leisure complexes , with snooker tables and televisions.
office
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The telephones in Sly's office complex did not trill, they rang.
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Down the corridor, a bodyguard has opened a private door, leading directly to his three-room office complex .
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Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I don't think you fully understood the complexity of his argument.
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Papp turned the old library into a huge six-screen movie complex .
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Schneider manages an apartment complex in suburban Denver.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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DNA-protein complexes were analysed on 5% polyacrylamide gels.
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Driving through the mine is like visiting some futuristic industrial complex on another planet.
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First, I would change the date to June 30 as a reminder of Tunguska and the Taurid complex .
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I call it the Stalingrad complex .
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Middlesbrough Council says the £1.2m Anchor International complex will provide 30 jobs and a valuable community facility.
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Selection can be simple, based on the value of one key, or complex , based on a number of keys.
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The military-industrial complex has been analysed from both of these perspectives.
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The underground complex had been built in summer, the construction teams working in three shifts round the dock.