Example sentences of "[art] complex and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a gross simplification of a complex and largely convincing set of theories . |
| 2 | Social factors such as class ; place of residence ; ideological background ; membership of societies ; alliances between geologists for good or bad motives ; professionalism and amateurism ; patronage ; and religion , allied themselves to personality factors such as vanity ; obstinacy ; honesty ( or the lack of it ) ; innate curiosity and intellectual capacity , to create a complex and wholly consistent scenario for the advancement of the science . |
| 3 | Indeed , we trust that all contributions will be judged not as predictions , but rather as means of analysing a complex and unpredictably changing sphere of social life . |
| 4 | The network system evolved into a complex and allegedly acrimonious business of bargaining in weekly meetings of the five major companies and the IBA , under the umbrella organization of the Independent Television Companies Association . |
| 5 | Those grades will be arrived at by a complex and outwardly objective system external to the school . |
| 6 | Material factors ( such as the shortage of penal resources ) interact with ideological developments ( such as ‘ law and order ideology ’ and the all-important ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ) in a complex and sometimes unpredictable manner . |
| 7 | The Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a complex and supremely witty composition that has been described as a microcosm of the Canterbury Tales as a whole ; I shall seek only to illustrate those points of particular relevance to our study of the Shipman 's Tale 's immediate literary context . |
| 8 | Ultimately , however , it can only be through increased education that consumers can come to understand the choices available to them in a complex and ever changing market place and be able to exercise careful and considered consumption . |
| 9 | Jones was now in the twilight of a complex and often controversial career . |
| 10 | Because he has failed to offer a clear-cut criterion for the rejection of any coherent research programme , or for choosing between rival research programmes , one might wish to say , with Feyerabend , that Lakatos 's methodology is ‘ a verbal ornament , as a memorial to happier times when it was still thought possible to run a complex and often catastrophic business like science by following a few simple and ‘ rational ’ rules ’ . |
| 11 | Anorexia nervosa has been viewed historically as a complex and often perplexing disorder . |
| 12 | The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s . |
| 13 | Add to this the quantitative regulation of expression of cell adhesion molecules in response , for example , to inflammatory mediators and associated with changes in cellular differentiation , and we find a complex and highly responsive set of cellular adhesion mechanisms whose role in normal tissue formation and disease is only beginning to be understood . |
| 14 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 15 | Taxation is a complex and rapidly changing subject . |
| 16 | This " minimum standards " approach leads to a number of problems when applied to a complex and rapidly changing area of technology . |
| 17 | This is a complex and still unstable concept whose understanding involves a consideration of a range of issues within discourse analysis , pragmatics , and the theory of grammar ( see , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 ; Richards and Schmidt 1983 ) . |