The scary part was that the elaborate preparations might not have been necessary.

The elaborate preparations, the long good-byes of most travelers, were not for them.

This difference accounts for the more elaborate preparation needed to examine specimens.

Jack didn't yet know how the technology worked, but he had seen the elaborate preparations.

Until recently, though, its elaborate preparations were undertaken only to mark some special occasion.

This is the kind of dish that would seem to require elaborate preparation.

I am not about to suggest launching into dishes that require days of elaborate preparation.

Well, take all these elaborate preparations against space attack you were telling us about.

No long elaborate preparation would be necessary for this changeling.

Main courses center on fish, offered with a choice of elaborate or simple preparations.