adjective
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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As we saw in the previous section, the model is extremely complicated .
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These workshops are particularly valuable on a historical site that may be indistinct, puzzling and confusing, or extremely complicated .
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Theorists can unravel the structure of extremely complicated games.
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Going abroad to study usually involved extremely complicated and difficult procedures.
less
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Pinot Blanc is one of the less complicated Alsace grapes, producing good, refreshing wines.
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It had become less simple and at the same time less complicated than that.
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The are more or less complicated functions of the:.
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In earlier, less complicated times an offender might be banished, mutilated or hanged.
more
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Too many legs though, round luminous eyes, and more complicated mandibles than any arachnid Ace had ever seen on Earth.
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For species with more than one d electron, things are much more complicated .
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The case became more and more complicated .
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It can be even more complicated .
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Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits.
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If one of the depends on 0, the problem is much more complicated and we will not discuss it further.
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If I break the rule, correcting the pattern is more complicated .
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Rot was more complicated and difficult.
most
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MPEG-2 sets the standard for the compression of digital signals, the most complicated and expensive element of any digital broadcasting system.
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But if it involves simple images, there's no need to buy the most complicated package.
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Friendship is one of nature's most complicated relationships.
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Y-cells are possibly the most complicated of the lot.
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In nature, it is those species that live in highly organized groups that require the most complicated communication systems.
quite
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The calculation is quite complicated , as I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows.
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The body, however, is quite complicated .
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These can be quite complicated and it is important that you understand both systems.
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When pursued in detail, such procedures can become quite complicated .
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For example, unless you are careful, permissions for access can become quite complicated .
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Some of the concepts and procedures described are quite complicated and require an understanding of file structures.
rather
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Under the Act, the position is also rather complicated , but reasonably clear.
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Tracing the course of the profits squeeze is inevitably rather complicated and speculative because the various influences can not be quantified.
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There is a death which is eventually explained and some rather complicated love-affairs.
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The vehicles are sometime rather complicated to run, and it is essential to have the workings explained to you.
so
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Why did life have to be so complicated ?
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Things'd be much easier if people didn't make it so complicated .
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But does it have to be so complicated ?
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She made it sound so complicated .
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We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated .
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Indeed, the cross-equation restrictions may become so complicated as to make computation of the restricted model difficult or impossible in practice.
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Constance had never seen anything so complicated .
too
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Dinner's fine, but it's on me, as long as you don't get picky and expect anything too complicated .
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If Jean could do that doctoring business, then it couldn't be too complicated , or do that much good.
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Its critics list many, not all as solid as they sound: Too complicated .
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However, it need not be too complicated .
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It was too complicated coping with a system of security locks for three doors.
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But he said loans were too complicated - this was easier.
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Unfortunately, this is too complicated for the Z88's operating system.
very
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He added that the application procedure is very complicated and depends on full information from the tenant.
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Deciding the priorities was a very complicated and difficult task.
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There are higher rates for work that is very complicated , difficult or urgent.
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What of the future of Bosnia, in particular, where there is a very complicated cocktail of ethnic mixes?
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He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation.
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The formula looks very complicated because it suddenly introduces cell addresses that mix relative and absolute references.
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Legal Matters Having an extra day every four years makes things very complicated .
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Since coal is formed from plants, which are chemically very complicated , its own chemical make-up is very elaborate.
■ NOUN
business
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In any event, surveying becomes a much more complicated business and much more difficult to execute satisfactorily.
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Organization and expertise were available there for the financing of increasingly complicated business .
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The scavenging of energy and the processing thereof is a complicated business .
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Now sadder but wiser, we are prepared to admit that the implementation of curriculum change is a complicated business .
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These may, from time to time, make policy formulation and implementation a complicated business .
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I don't conclude anything from that either, except that fancying is a complicated business .
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Most adults do it almost unthinkingly, but for young children it's a painstakingly complicated business .
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We are such thoroughly visual animals that we hardly realize what a complicated business seeing is.
case
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Extension to more complicated cases is not difficult.
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In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators.
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The political significance of the vulgarization of high culture is exemplified in the more complicated case of Andy Warhol.
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In complicated cases , the schedule can and should be drafted by counsel.
matter
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To obtain this is in itself a complicated matter .
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The Attorney-General Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will contrive to listen to what I am saying on this complicated matter .
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A decade later, however, Calvinism appeared on the scene to make an already complicated matter more so.
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But there are areas of fraud which still need to be tackled, such as the complicated matter of deceiving a machine.
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Clearly this operation greatly complicated matters and consequently added to the cost.
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But it can be a complicated matter to extract useful information from the observed spectra.
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Indeed, there is a case for supposing that in complicated matters it is likely to be the worst one.
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As to the judiciary, the Court of Justice, this is a more complicated matter .
pattern
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In molecules with more than one halogen atom more complicated patterns appear.
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She had been moving in large ellipses, crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern .
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Lights moved in complicated patterns on the top of the Thing.
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A complicated pattern of basins and ridges hind the volcanic arc.
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Once again we worked as a Club, being issued with fine slub yarns and complicated patterns .
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Pale green pipes writhed around the top and bottom of the walls and in a complicated pattern over the ceiling.
process
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Perhaps it would help if I explained the complicated process by which the Journal is produced.
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The launch of any new product, in whatever industry, can be a long and complicated process .
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From the first day of competition onwards there was the complicated process of conquering the logistics of the Stadio Olimpico complex.
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It was a very involved and complicated process .
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Lithography had many advantages over the difficult and complicated processes of copper and steel engraving, and even over the woodcut.
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Then, paclitaxel is extracted from the bark in a complicated process .
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But there are sometimes hitches in this complicated process and problems can develop.
relationship
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In fact, as the Lacanian schema indicates, the self and the other are caught in a more complicated relationship .
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This creates complicated relationships between project managers and functional managers.
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Friendship is one of nature's most complicated relationships .
structure
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Other complicated structures are possible; these include performance-related options which would permit management to obtain more shares.
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Bedu tents are huge, complicated structures .
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Most of these universes will not provide the right conditions for the development of the complicated structures needed for intelligent life.
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Behind this front line is a complicated structure of health, social, housing and financial services, management and monitoring systems.
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Thus, the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us.
system
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Right-On movements such as the feminists and the peace campaigners evolved complicated systems to ensure this happened.
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Birds also have a complicated system of courtship. 10.
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There's no complicated system of motorised controlled valves - just state of the art technology.
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The Patriot is a complicated system of launchers, radars, communications and control.
things
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We began this section by asking what kind of explanation for complicated things would satisfy us.
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On the other hand, the world was miles across and full of complicated things .
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We wanted to know why we, and all other complicated things , exist.
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Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.
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The pendant round my neck only complicated things .
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Helicopters, too, are complicated things and pose many problems.
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There is no single way to measure creativity or industrial innovation; they are complicated things .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
too silly/complicated/ridiculous etc for words
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a complicated set of instructions
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I didn't realize programming the VCR would be so complicated .
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the complicated problem of bringing peace to the Middle East
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The brain is like a very powerful, very complicated computer.
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The new law is complicated and confusing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A more complicated mount might have distracted one's eye from the flowers and the frame.
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It's certainly the best way to produce more complicated boards.
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It can be even more complicated .
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The body, however, is quite complicated .
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The references I have made to light and existence only touch the surface of a very complicated debate.
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The symbolism is complicated and relies on a great deal of background information.
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The Tour may now display a hero, but it's also likely that this long and complicated race shelters a secret.
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Upper classes are often heavily loaded with current world affairs and the complicated workings of the United Nations and its agencies.