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