Example sentences of "[adv] investigate the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Goldring Audit on Channel Four tonight , nine o'clock investigating the navy , H M S Invincible .
2 If a certificate of summary administration is in force , the official receiver need only investigate the bankrupt 's conduct and affairs if he thinks fit ( s 289(5) ) The official receiver must , at least once , send a report of the state of the bankrupt 's affairs to all creditors and file a copy at court ( r 6.73 ) although the court can release him from this obligation having regard to the funds available and the interests of creditors generally ( r 6.77 ) .
3 He was given authority only to investigate the issue .
4 The DUC , with some ten members , was not initially anti-mining and was formed only to investigate the implications of the prospecting and then to report back and decide in consultation with the community what action should be taken .
5 The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance .
6 Trading standards officers were called in to investigate the way the company peddled its ‘ call waiting ’ service .
7 A hospital manager has resigned after detectives were called in to investigate the disappearance of thousands of pounds .
8 The fraud squad has been called in to investigate the activities of John Allen insurance .
9 Also in May the police were called in to investigate the affairs of the club .
10 THE FBI has been called in to investigate the deaths of British spy Ian Spiro and his family .
11 ‘ Detectives were called in to investigate the theft of the car but no mention was made of the filofax , ’ said a RUC source .
12 Future studies should perhaps investigate the effect of increased doses of oestrogen and the value of transdermal administration .
13 ‘ I 'm not investigating the murder of Miss Beatrix Abberley , but I shall certainly pass on my tentative conclusions to the Sussex Police .
14 They are already investigating the scope for putting some more services — management services , computer services and the collection of moneys — out to the private sector .
15 Analysts claimed that Syria was already investigating the possibility of purchasing some of the world 's most advanced weaponry .
16 Although we have not investigated the clonality of the T cells infiltrating the gut one possibility is that these represented epitheliotropic ‘ transitional ’ or ‘ end ’ cell phases of the same cell line present in the pleural lesion .
17 Previous studies have not investigated the role of population mixing in the Dounreay-Thurso area , though they have shown that the excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma there can not be attributed to paternal nuclear employment or irradiation before the child 's conception .
18 Finally to investigate the equity market with reference to the shares issued by specific companies or industries relative to their need for finance and the availability of alternative sources of finance .
19 He chose not to investigate the possibility that there might , after all , be other reasons why he wished to quit his homeland .
20 It could then be only too convenient if the Secretary of State made the decision not to investigate the accident .
21 But one can ask why Adorno did not investigate the origins of swing before so quickly assimilating it to the prevailing Tin Pan Alley dance-band style .
22 However , despite its title , the article does not investigate the complexity of the issue , limited as it is to the historical aspects of textuality , such as spelling , punctuation and typography .
23 Since we do not have a year-long content analysis of the media we can not investigate the influence of a changing media consensus but we can analyse the differential effects of different elements of the media .
24 To Milton 's relief , the Colonel did not investigate the contents of all of them : there was , apparently , a system .
25 Unfortunately for our present discussion , Greene did not investigate the production of negatives , only comprehension .
26 Obviously the GMC can not investigate the efficacy of every controversial treatment brought to its attention .
27 The noisome dust-heaps represent enormous wealth , and the worship of wealth animates the Veneering circle with its traffic in shares , as it does Silas Wegg secretly investigating the dust-heaps , and even affects Bella Wilfer , who has to learn better before her marriage to the heir .
28 We have collected all the artwork together , but are still investigating the film situation .
29 UNITED STATES officials are still investigating the possibility that Iran and Syria may have been involved in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing , along with Libya , a senior US counter-terrorism specialist said on yesterday .
30 We are still investigating the matter . ’
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