adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
expensive/sophisticated
▪ He was a man of expensive tastes (= he liked expensive things.)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ However, Q&A is by no means as sophisticated as either WordPerfect or WordStar.
▪ Beneath that wild, impulsive exterior lurked as sophisticated a character as she was ever likely to encounter.
▪ Why on earth should cats have any reactions at all to something as sophisticated as human music?
▪ The problems they encounter in creating and interpreting them are as sophisticated and as complex as they come.
▪ Fortunately technology has come to the rescue - the new Finesse styling aids range is as sophisticated and versatile as you are.
▪ They're not as sophisticated as us.
fairly
▪ This is a fairly sophisticated performance, but it does not require a map.
▪ Scatter counting is a fairly sophisticated skill for young children, and they will need lots of help and practice.
▪ However, it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published.
▪ For instance, the method they used to prove the irrationality of was almost certainly a fairly sophisticated reductio ad absurdum.
▪ The exposure value computed for the measurements is the result of fairly sophisticated calculations.
▪ Such schemes are only suitable for fairly sophisticated investors.
highly
▪ A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal.
▪ Some of these are highly sophisticated and provide almost complete control of the duty cycle over a 100 percent variation.
▪ They are highly sophisticated, crammed with electronics, and often carry their own helicopter.
▪ However, the emplacement vessel or platform would need to be highly sophisticated - perhaps a larger version of the Glomar Explorer.
▪ For more exotic dinner parties this one, or at least for those of a highly sophisticated and refined palette!
▪ Between them, those cells produce a highly sophisticated and intricate attack upon the source of infection.
▪ They're highly sophisticated infra-red beams, virtually undetectable to the naked eye.
▪ Dealers have been showered with complaints about this highly sophisticated piece of equipment which has apparently developed a serious fault.
increasingly
▪ They are increasingly sophisticated machines, often using high quality aluminium and titanium alloys, spin offs from the aerospace industry.
▪ The F-111s are ageing and their credibility as a deterrent depends upon their ability to penetrate increasingly sophisticated Soviet air defences.
▪ The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.
▪ But domestic capital investment grew markedly and the banking and credit system became increasingly sophisticated.
▪ In the corporate and financial environment, numerically presented financial and survey data was subjected to increasingly sophisticated statistical and econometric analysis.
▪ Car security systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
▪ Their increasingly sophisticated tastes have been met in what has become the world's most popular man-made destination.
less
▪ At the same time, though less abrasive, the book is only intermittently less sophisticated than those that preceded it.
▪ Their financial constraints are more severe and the credit facilities at their disposal are less diverse and less sophisticated.
more
▪ It is a considerably more sophisticated approach though, as should become clear, not without its flaws.
▪ This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account.
▪ Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs.
▪ He also stressed the need for faster and more sophisticated vessels to combat modern smuggling by sea.
▪ The real power of computerised data lies in a deeper, more sophisticated analysis of the information which already exists.
▪ Topics can be revisited, when pupils are capable of greater understanding and a more sophisticated approach.
▪ Equipment is more sophisticated, and more experience is required.
▪ Even a later and more sophisticated age continued to enjoy them.
most
▪ But on few matters, it must be added, is even the most sophisticated economic and social comment more reticent.
▪ But the shell-less ones survived and they became the most sophisticated and intelligent of all the molluscs, the squids and octopus.
▪ The most sophisticated farmers are the leaf-cutting ants, which cultivate fungus on fresh vegetation thanks to an assembly-line of specialised castes.
▪ The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off.
▪ They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries.
▪ Whitehead Mann's dynamic and determined style and no-nonsense approach have appealed to the most sophisticated users of search.
▪ McClellan's is the most sophisticated approach yet designed towards solving these logistic problems.
▪ With 36 dealing stations, it will be the largest and most sophisticated north of the border.
quite
▪ This role is only just being appreciated by even quite sophisticated organizations.
▪ The concepts therefore were for that age quite sophisticated, indeed quite sophisticated by many adults' standards as we have seen.
relatively
▪ To obtain anything like pure silver from a natural gold alloy involved a relatively sophisticated process of separation.
▪ Indeed, the large number of relatively sophisticated geometric arrangements, is notable.
▪ They were more influenced than their predecessors by consciously held and relatively sophisticated beliefs and less by unthinking traditional assumptions.
▪ A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech.
▪ Included are appendices containing a certain amount of relatively sophisticated economic analysis - diagrams and algebra.
so
▪ Fortunately the technology of the food processing industry is now so sophisticated that infection from this source has been virtually eliminated.
▪ Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility.
▪ Newspaper technology is so sophisticated we can even make politicians say things they don't know they're saying.
▪ Fortunately, the control mechanisms and procedures for flow processes are usually so sophisticated that the processes become automatically self-regulating.
too
▪ He thought she was too sophisticated not to know what she had there, but he was surprised all the same.
▪ It never would, she was too sophisticated for him, and he was too clever for her.
▪ But Skye was too sophisticated to encourage confidences.
very
▪ Something in the loch has produced some very peculiar sonar traces on some very sophisticated equipment, and that something demands explanation.
▪ They made her feel very sophisticated.
▪ This seemed a very sophisticated city.
▪ Environment OS/2 is essentially an object orientated working environment that uses the 386 family of processors to allow very sophisticated multi-tasking.
▪ De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated.
▪ Much political theorising was therefore restricted to explicitly normative, though often very sophisticated, comparisons of different forms of elite rule.
▪ It should have been very sophisticated.
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account.
▪ Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs.
▪ The real power of computerised data lies in a deeper, more sophisticated analysis of the information which already exists.
▪ Broadsheets turned to long articles about general themes, campaign strategies and sophisticated analysis of opinion polls.
▪ Only when the plays enter stabilising textual form do they become available for the type of sophisticated analysis critics undertake.
▪ A more sophisticated analysis is presented by Kenneth Newton in his study of Birmingham.
▪ Talk about the game requires no sophisticated analysis of systems and tactics, but rather a shared passion for its simplicities.
▪ Perhaps, therefore, a more delicate and sophisticated analysis would be possible if different types of oddness were recognised?
approach
▪ It is a considerably more sophisticated approach though, as should become clear, not without its flaws.
▪ Topics can be revisited, when pupils are capable of greater understanding and a more sophisticated approach.
▪ A more sophisticated approach fits different polynomials over different but overlapping terms to maturity.
▪ During the late 1970s and early 1980s several innovative and more sophisticated approaches to smoking education in schools were developed and evaluated.
▪ McClellan's is the most sophisticated approach yet designed towards solving these logistic problems.
▪ A more sophisticated approach is to adopt a matrix structure which also examines horizontal relations.
▪ A more sophisticated approach is required.
▪ A second, more sophisticated approach, has the machine put plays in order according to the results of earlier evaluations.
computer
▪ In fact there are so many that without the use of sophisticated computers it would be impossible to monitor them all.
▪ Because the Z88 is a sophisticated computer which is capable of holding several programs in memory concurrently, this option has complications.
▪ Darlington council has a sophisticated computer system to cope with the poll tax process.
▪ In his latest book he tells of sophisticated computers that can move tall buildings in the opposite direction to the tremors.
▪ Detectives, who believe more than one person is behind the attacks, are using a sophisticated computer system to aid their inquiry.
equipment
▪ Quite sophisticated equipment and trained manpower is required to make reliable estimates.
▪ Something in the loch has produced some very peculiar sonar traces on some very sophisticated equipment, and that something demands explanation.
▪ There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas.
▪ The treatment of hazardous waste is particularly expensive and needs especially sophisticated equipment.
▪ This method is more suitable for large farms with sophisticated equipment.
▪ Dissolves can also be edited in but require the use of rather more sophisticated equipment than for simple fades.
▪ And where they are legal, the operations require sophisticated equipment and highly-trained personnel to carry out the switch within 24 hours.
▪ When more sophisticated equipment is called for they have often adapted things to suit their own particular needs.
form
▪ Some philosophers might suspect that I have not considered the behaviouristic theories in their most sophisticated form.
▪ Motor abilities, perceptual skills and increasingly sophisticated forms of cognitive representation are all implicated in the mastery of spoken language.
▪ This type of statistical work is about inferring things from the data and is really a sophisticated form of guesswork.
method
▪ Surely it would be better if time healed injuries, not sophisticated methods?
▪ Access needed a technologically sophisticated method of intervention.
▪ This technique, which requires extremely sophisticated methods of analysis, will always remain the province of the specialist.
▪ Or perhaps more sophisticated methods are applied along the lines suggested by Friedman's permanent income hypothesis.
▪ This, as any sophisticated method, demands some practice to perfect.
▪ Research which has attempted to untangle these issues has not, by and large, employed sufficiently sophisticated methods to clarify the picture.
▪ Next, the system contained a very sophisticated method of taxation and income redistribution.
▪ The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
system
▪ The allocation was achieved by a sophisticated system of groups or units comprising one or more cities.
▪ In a more sophisticated system, a subscriber can control the pulses from the videodisc player via a keyboard in his home.
technique
▪ With brute force techniques ... they do achieve about the same end result as we do with much more sophisticated techniques.
▪ Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures, involving more sophisticated techniques.
▪ Useful results can often be achieved through simple analysis without resorting to the more sophisticated techniques.
▪ They have been extensively researched and a wide range of sophisticated techniques have been used.
▪ From 1938 television pulsed circuit and other sophisticated techniques were of increasing interest for the development of essential defence innovations.
▪ Increasingly sophisticated techniques have been used to solve these problems.
▪ But we do not need these sophisticated techniques to improve group effectiveness.
technology
▪ In order to encourage this change as quickly as possible, foreign experts, accompanied by sophisticated technology, were introduced.
version
▪ And yet she subtly steered her boss towards a more sophisticated version of this.
▪ A more sophisticated version of this type is the Tabriz loom, used primarily by workshop groups.
▪ In this respect, his pluralism can be regarded as a more sophisticated version of monism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sophisticated woman whose friends included many rich and famous people
▪ a play that will appeal to a sophisticated audience
▪ Even experienced and sophisticated readers have been known to have trouble with Thoreau's books.
▪ Everyone at the party was sophisticated and well-educated.
▪ Eye operations often involve the use of highly sophisticated equipment, such as lasers.
▪ Nothing beats black for the classic sophisticated look.
▪ She was glamorous and sophisticated, but seemed a little lonely.
▪ Sondheim's lyrics have a sophisticated brilliance.
▪ The missile has a sophisticated guidance system.
▪ The play is intended for a sophisticated audience.
▪ The suave, sophisticated 60-year-old singer is still performing and drawing crowds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And yet she subtly steered her boss towards a more sophisticated version of this.
▪ Anne thought often about Sarah and her sophisticated partner on the Saturday night of the dinner dance.
▪ As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team, and went on to appear on Broadway.
▪ Develops the skills further, and pays special attention to more sophisticated sub-skills such as scanning a text.
▪ He proposed to develop a sophisticated fishing industry.
▪ However, it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published.
▪ Really sophisticated users may like to invest in the ultimate communications link between the two systems, a local area network.
▪ These developments in turn contributed to the rebirth of various critical and intellectually sophisticated neo-Marxisms in the 1960s and 1970s.