11.   They supervised every detail of their operations,and kept their records with an elaborate system of checks and doublechecks.

12.   The main purpose of this elaborate system was almost certainly profit for the king.

13.   Examination of particular species seems to show elaborate systems for enhancing cross-pollination.

14.   An elaborate social system is evolving here between American military guards and their captives from the Afghan war.

15.   An elaborate system of rope mazes to control the crowd stood largely empty.

16.   An elaborate system is being devised to use buses to pick up refugees in one part of Bosnia and take them to polling place in their own county.

17.   An elaborate system of competitions spurs European bartenders on.

18.   And she has an elaborate system for painting suns, in which the number of rays are good or bad, and colors equal foods.

19.   Another Motorola study found that Chinese businessmen working in rural areas with no telephone service had developed an elaborate system of using pagers to send coded messages.

20.   BankBostonand a number of other banks have put together elaborate systems for evaluating theriskofloans.