1.   This thumbnail sketch of a complicated web of negotiations says some unexpected things about Mr Major.

2.   A complicated web of companies registered in the Isle of Man and the British Virgin Islands may control many of his investments.

3.   For Catholics who had grown up thinking the obligations of Christianity consisted of stepping around a complicated web of sins, this was a vast and exciting thought.

4.   Frankel used a complicated web of transactions to conceal the destination of funds, according to court records.

5.   Increasingly, though, the government has sought to control these outlays with a complicated web of restrictions.

6.   It is about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care.

7.   Public finance in California is based on an extremely complicated web of legal theories, most of which have evolved from court decisions over the last century.

8.   That added yet another factor to this complicated web of strategic and financial equations.

9.   The announcement is the latest in a complicated web of alliances in the frenzied rush to sell music on line.

10.   The EPA package unveiled by Whitman was a complicated web of changes, some of which would affect power plants and some of which apply only to other industries.