Example sentences of "set up a [noun sg] [prep] inquiry " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 2 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 3 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 4 | Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 . |
| 5 | The local City Council set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the policing arrangements for the visit and complaints were made to the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 6 | The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt . |
| 7 | They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry . |
| 8 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |