elaborate structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofelaborateandstructure
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elaborate
adjective
uk/iˈlæb.ər.ət/us/iˈlæb.ɚ.ət/
containing a lot of careful detail or many ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofelaborateandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Note that theory does not necessarily imply such anelaboratestructure.
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What is to be gained by thiselaboratestructure?
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To claim otherwise is to relegate theelaboratestructureof conscious experience to a mystical state beyond the bounds of science.
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When single, banal tropes are put together they may create a moreelaboratestructureand hence may acquire another layer of meaning.
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This is obtained by requiring the model to have a ratherelaboratestructure, sometimes as complex as that of type theory itself.
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Other written documents belonging to that period tend to lack in speech-like features and showelaboratestructureand at times a high degree of literary style.
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If this is all the partnership is about, why set up such anelaboratestructure?
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As a result of those measures, we built up a veryelaboratestructureof legislation.
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One might consider that thatelaboratestructureis complicated for a population of only 1.5 million people.
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Here again, what is being sought is not anelaboratestructurebut a simple hut with basic facilities.
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The results are sufficiently accurate for phonological and morphological issues that for the time being there is no need to build in any moreelaboratestructureinto the representations.
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What was it that made theelaboratestructureof a century ago so easily shaken, so easily brought to the ground?
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I do not think that the new institution will work or that itselaboratestructurewill have any significant benefit for the public at large.
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It is anelaboratestructure, and on some suitable occasion we might discuss it further, but it is outside the scope of this debate.
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It would be possible to do this, but it would require a complicated andelaboratestructureto enable it to be done.
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Anelaboratestructureof rank was developed to better organize men into units.
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In 1890, a moreelaboratestructurewith sleeping rooms and a second floor was built.
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But the only alternative is a mostelaboratestructureof negotiation, by which the children who live in one borough will be accommodated in institutions provided by others.
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It seems to me, looking at this simply as a scientist, that there is no need to construct anelaboratestructurefor the development of an energy policy.
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This is not the occasion to create anelaboratestructureof measures which look splendid in theory, but which do not make a significant practical contribution.
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In larger villages, the chaupal may be anelaboratestructurethat also doubles as a community guesthouse (or mehmaan khana).
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We are surely entitled to ask him why it is necessary to retain, for the sake of apparently no more than 14 directions a year, thiselaboratestructureof compulsion.
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My party believes that there is enormous scope for reducing public expenditure by a careful and thoughtful attack on the ancient or extremelyelaboratestructureof government at all levels.
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It is all very well to have thatelaboratestructurein the pursuit of justice, but if it is too elaborate, it ought to be replaced by simpler machinery.
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I wish to make it clear that private sector influence must not become simply an add-on extra to anelaboratestructuredevised and conceived wholly within a government department.
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