complex combination

collocation in English

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complex
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.pleks/us
/kɑːmˈpleks/
involving a lot of different but ...
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combination
noun
uk
/ˌkɒm.bɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːm.bəˈneɪ.ʃən/
the mixture you get when two or more things ...
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Punishment derived from acomplexcombinationof sociocultural factors and longstanding legal prescriptions, doctrines and traditions.
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As a result of these interweaving elements, the study of gender is acomplexcombinationof separate, but interconnected issues.
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We are well aware of thecomplexcombinationof economic, organizational, political, institutional, medical, social-demographic, and cognitive factors, and this varies in time.
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The emerging picture from the study of individuals and animal models is one of acomplexcombination of primary substrate storage and secondary effects.
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These behavior modifications require people with diabetes to acquire acomplexcombinationof knowledge and skills in a variety of domains.
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Subsequent cortical differentiation, beginning at age two, creates distinct, relatively modularized capacities for linguistic grammar and morecomplexcombinationof objects.
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In conclusion, our case shows acomplexcombinationof lesions and a particularly unusual arrangement of the anomalous left coronary artery.
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They do not sell a single product, but rather acomplexcombinationof products and services.
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Professionalization therefore appears to constitute a process in which certain types of occupational groups have endeavoured to capitalize upon an existing advantage, but for acomplexcombinationof reasons.
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The proliferation of self-access centres in the 1990s was motivated by acomplexcombinationof economic, technological and educational concerns and presented both opportunities and dilemmas for teachers favouring autonomy.
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The author uses acomplexcombinationof fact and fiction to create a sense of realism.
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This demonstrates that acomplexcombinationof slow and fast reactions are taking place simultaneously.
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Such rules permitting the forward pass opened the door to morecomplexcombinationof passes.
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Closer inspection reveals that these apparently weightless structures are in fact acomplexcombinationof media.
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They operate in acomplexcombinationof imperfect markets, monopolies, monopsonies, labor unions, and other institutions.
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Most are polygenic or are determined by acomplexcombinationof genes and early environment.
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I refer to local authority estates, some built before the war but many more recently, which exhibit acomplexcombinationof physical, management and social problems.
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These test basic individual abilities rather thancomplexcombinationof abilities needed to solve real life problems.
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He told clients that he achieved the returns using acomplexcombinationof derivatives, stock, currency and futures trading.
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In order to meet demands of robustness, accuracy and practicality, an implementation will be acomplexcombinationof different techniques.
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Many other situations exist, and, in fact, all marriages have acomplexcombinationof conveniences motivating the parties to marry.
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The compound is acomplexcombinationoften including water, limestone, expanded perlite, ethylene-vinyl acetate polymer, attapulgite, and other ingredients.
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The forces experienced by a particle are acomplexcombinationof interactions with individual gas molecules and macroscopic interactions.
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The transport from cell to the neighboring one is achieved through relativelycomplexcombinationof several sub-processes.
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