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Collocations for complex - noun

1. set of buildings

ADJECTIVE

huge, large, vast
entertainment, holiday (BrE), leisure, shopping, sports
apartment (AmE), factory, hospital, housing, museum, office
industrial, military

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VERB + complex

build

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2. mental/emotional problem

ADJECTIVE

real, terrible
inferiority, superiority
castration, guilt, Oedipus, persecution

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VERB + complex

have, suffer from
develop, get
Don't nag him about his handwriting or he'll get a complex.
give sb

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PREPOSITION

complex about
She has a complex about her big ears.

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Collocations for complex - adj.

VERBS

be, look, seem, sound
become

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
enormously, exceedingly, extraordinarily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, infinitely
This is a highly complex matter.
especially, exceptionally, particularly
increasingly
relatively
surprisingly
unnecessarily
technically
technically complex surgery

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Complex is used with these nouns:
area, arrangement, array, calculation, carbohydrate, chain, character, concept, construction, creature, design, detail, device, division, emergency, emotion, equation, explanation, flavour, form, formula, fraud, hierarchy, idea, instruction, interaction, issue, legislation, litigation, machinery, manoeuvre, matter, maze, mechanics, mechanism, melody, mix, mixture, molecule, narrative, nature, negotiation, network, number, organism, pattern, personality, phenomenon, picture, plot, problem, procedure, process, question, reality, relation, relationship, rhythm, sentence, sequence, series, set, shape, situation, society, story, structure, subject, sugar, system, tangle, task, technology, topic, undertaking, variation, version, web, whole, workings

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