Obviously the days of the elaborate clandestine operation that had run from B-3 were now over.

It would be hard to run this elaborate operation without the director knowing.

It was an elaborate operation, running the country from down there, what was left of the country.

And a side effect of the show's elaborate operations is that tickets cost as much as $130.

Even a piano in excellent condition often undergoes a more elaborate operation, called regulation, before a major performance.

But it does suggest an elaborate and well-planned operation.

Most card and shell games are very elaborate operations involving several crew members.

Eventually, 26 such facilities were built and included other game types and more elaborate operations.

Sometimes the foreign Communists devised elaborate and expensive operations to avoid detection.

All the while, I was thinking-perhaps some elaborate cerebral operation?