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considerable
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In response to these needs a calendrical system of considerable complexity was devised.
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Unfortunately, the area is one of considerable complexity .
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This was a task of considerable complexity and Tozer's edition remains the standard one.
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The dragonflies beat their two wings synchronously, but this makes for very considerable physiological complexities .
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It can be of considerable depth and complexity and should not be devalued.
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One requires a background of considerable behavioural complexity before one is justified in attributing to any creature beliefs, intentions and so on.
full
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It is impossible, in a short space, to full convey the complexities of international diplomacy throughout these years.
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The result is that there isn't really a model which describes filmmaking in its full complexity .
great
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This astonishing diversity manifested itself in great complexity of relationships and in our lacking dominance almost everywhere.
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But her narrative acquires its greatest complexity and most ironic shadings when dealing with these violent events.
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Obviously this is not a realistic assumption. further, the greater the inter-dependence, then the greater the complexity .
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As a system re-organizes into greater complexity , it increases its life.
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Discussion of this would lead us into great complexity and it is appropriate to give a largely phenomenological description.
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The greater the complexity of a vivisystem, the more life it may harbor.
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The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed.
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For rather similar reasons, Darwin reacted against Lamarck's idea that organisms have an inner drive to evolve greater complexity .
growing
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The number of departments within each major foreign ministry grew with the growing complexity of the work to be done.
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These changes are paralleled by a growing economic complexity .
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The third has been the provision of an ever-increasing variety of financial instruments needed to support the growing complexity of cross-border transactions.
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The market is one of growing complexity , dynamism and openness.
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This division of labour was itself the product of the growing complexity of the social organism.
increasing
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To adapt to the increasing complexities of modern business life, an organisation can not afford to be a sluggish bureaucracy.
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The increasing complexity of matter forms a series of components of increasing organization as illustrated in Figure 5.
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The second was the increasing complexity of the legal issues arising in appeals.
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The increasing complexity of trade and commerce demands financial and legal experts such as accountants and lawyers.
technical
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This legal and political advantage is balanced by the higher order of technical complexity involved in exploiting sulphide ores.
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Numerous surveys show how poorly equipped students are to enter a work force that faces increasing technical complexity and intensifying competition.
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Considering the technical complexities required, televised science fiction has frequently earned less than proportionately balanced critical response.
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The 15 players triumph in the technical complexities of the five etudes.
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But perhaps the biggest challenge and one that receives little attention is the enormous technical complexity of the Internet.
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Consultants' caseloads are mounting inexorably and technical complexity is increasing while junior support declines, both proportionately and in terms of doctor hours.
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All businesses were examined except those where the technical complexity was too great to be understood by central corporate staff.
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add
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However, as land use patterns change over time, zone boundaries will need changing, adding to the procedural complexity .
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To Jefferson, it was Paul who started adding complexity .
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Unfortunately, that process committee overlay adds even more complexity to organizational relationships that are already too complex.
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They can either be shaved atop a sauce or studded in it to add complexity and fragrance.
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Herbs, when used judiciously, add dimension and complexity to game of all kinds.
cope
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How do they cope with the complexity of the problem?
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At the same time, coping with the complexity of cultural rules presents a real challenge.
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We are forced to conclude that our present knowledge is too limited to cope with these complexities .
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They were also too crude to cope with the complexity of contemporary life in Britain.
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The highest professional standards are needed to cope with the complexity of issues.
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They Simply would not have the flexibility or the speed of reaction to cope with the complexities of everyday life.
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Piphros' vocabulary was indeed limited and was unable to cope with the complexity of some of the things she had asked.
explain
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The package explains the complexities of serial communications using on screen tutorials with animated sections.
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To many biologists, it provides the key to explaining the complexities of animal life.
grow
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The number of departments within each major foreign ministry grew with the growing complexity of the work to be done.
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While the issues surrounding home banking appear to be growing in complexity , so are the opportunities and challenges for bankers.
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They grew in numbers and complexity .
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Their writing, with some exceptions, had also grown in ease and complexity .
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And the simple point grows its own complexity .
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Five is a rich document, a multi-faceted celebration of musicianship that grows in complexity with every listen.
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Memory requirements for the computer leapt as the amount of data and programs grew in complexity .
illustrate
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A simple example should serve to illustrate the complexities and the paradoxes of this conflict.
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Janet illustrates the complexity of moving between two worlds.
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Nevertheless they do illustrate the complexities of local ecclesiastical politics.
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Perhaps the main value is in illustrating the complexity of cause and effect.
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The main purpose of the list is to illustrate complexity and variety of political-economic and physical circumstances of soil erosion.
increase
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It substantially increases the complexity of the environment of the animal.
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Numerous surveys show how poorly equipped students are to enter a work force that faces increasing technical complexity and intensifying competition.
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It may well be that one consequence of increasing complexity will be a return to standard units.
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In fact, there were disincentives for improvement since rewards to support function managers came for increased size and complexity .
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This series includes nine modules of increasing complexity .
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Second, communal work has increased in complexity .
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What characterises ascending stages of the scale of being is the combination of unity with ever increasing degrees of complexity .
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The increasing complexity of construction projects also should lead to the creation of more manager jobs.
involve
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These activities are performed to solve problems involving complexity , uncertainty and/or ambiguity that require intelligence and decision-making.
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Problems may involve complexity , criticality, conflict or indeed a combination of these problem types.
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It is also simple-minded to assert that everyone can or should be involved in the complexities of designing universities or opera houses.
reduce
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Tivoli's aim is to reduce the cost and complexity of managing heterogeneous distributed environments which include Unix systems and personal computers.
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The new process also reduces cost and complexity .
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It reduces the complexity of the world by seeking out those qualities that countries share and those that they do not share.
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Codifying these transactions and coordinating them through software via the I-way can reduce the complexity of the task.
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Pattern is created out of initial, seemingly random, information so reducing its complexity .
reveal
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Detailed three-dimensional structural analysis of church buildings is helping to reveal great complexity in their development.
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The tablets reveal the Minoans as lovers of minutely recorded detail; their labyrinthine architecture reveals a love of complexity and puzzles.
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He may be surprised when the analyst reveals the complexities of his hand movements and finger manipulations.
understand
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When we deal with constituents at our surgeries we have difficulty understanding the complexities .
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This study repays careful reading to understand more of the complexity of domestic care.
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Meanwhile the borderline case is important in understanding the complexity of primary signal systems.
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Conceiving citizenship is this manner allows for a clearer understanding of the complexities of contemporary forms of social inclusion and exclusion.
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His approach has undoubtedly helped a lot of people to understand the complexities of biological evolution.
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The skyscraper metaphor is apt, for our only hope to understanding such complexity is with a hierarchical model.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many people struggle with the complexity of the tax forms.
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The article attempts to explain the affair's legal and political complexities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as James' tale develops, it assumes complexity .
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First, Temple confronted the life of the real world in all its complexity .
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How to choose the right model complexity is explained in these chapters.
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Now he was getting a lesson in the complexities of human relationships.
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The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy, complexity and expense.
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These are the questions pursued by complexity science.
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This is a universal law of vivisystems: higher level complexities can not be inferred by lower-level existences.
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Watson, I am accustomed to being baffled by complexity .