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The tax laws are so complicated that only an expert can provide enlightenment.

The ladies of Paris are infinitely more complicated.

In fact, because it was so difficult to make, and sort of mysterious and complicated, it was probably a product produced for the royal family.

This recent increase in fires has resulted partly from climate change (the recent trend toward hot, dry summers) and partly from human activities, for complicated reasons that foresters came increasingly to understand about 30 years ago but whose relative importance is still debated.

Though his attitudes toward commerce are complicated, he credits trains for delivering goods that feed and clothe society, things that improve human life.

Yeah, a word for word translation could become too complicated or it'd go by too fast on the screen.

So how do blind mole rats find their way around in these complicated tunnels?

Its use soon widened to document the multitudinous things and acts that are involved in daily life, from simple inventories of commodities to complicated governmental rules and regulations.

Now, although this method may seem complicated, artists since antiquity have used anatomical observations to try to get the proportions of the human figure as accurate as possible, though obviously not to the degree that Alberti was recommending.

From an artist’s point of view, Hockney observed that a camera obscura compresses the complicated forms of a three-dimensional scene into two-dimensional shapes that can easily be traced and also increases the contrast between light and dark, leading to the chiaroscuro effect seen in many of these paintings.

In Jan van Eyck’s The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami, the complicated foreshortening in the chandelier and the intricate detail in the bride’s garments are among the clues that Hockney thinks point to the use of the camera obscura.

So it's a complicated environmental picture.

Structure is essentially the architecture of vegetation, and as in the case of tropical forests, it can be extremely complicated. 

Paintings became more complicated, giving the artist greater opportunities to depict space or emotion.

As decades passed, it became clear that measuring river flow was much more complicated than we had thought.

The questions become more complicated when actual volumes of water are considered: how much water enters and leaves by each route?

Note the word "net": measuring the actual amounts of groundwater seepage into the lake and out of the lake is a much more complicated matter than merely inferring their difference.

After seeing this, Duncan publically denounced ballet as a form of acrobatics, uh, complicated and excruciating mechanism she called it.

So a musician was expected to play complicated pieces of music pretty much without any preparation.

Well, of course it had to be more complicated than that.

The studies are complicated by the fact that the data are sometimes contradictory and the mechanisms apparently change from time to time.

Long and often lyrical descriptions of the different types of ware exist that assist in classifying pots, although these sometimes confuse an already large and complicated picture.

We also know that the global climate system is immensely complicated and that everything is in some way connected, and so the system is capable of fluctuating in unexpected ways.

The question of ecosystem stability is complicated, however.

A more complicated system is, in general, more likely than a simple system to break down.

Well, here it gets a little more complicated for me.