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

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1 A hospital manager has resigned after detectives were called in to investigate the disappearance of thousands of pounds .
2 ‘ Detectives were called in to investigate the theft of the car but no mention was made of the filofax , ’ said a RUC source .
3 Future studies should perhaps investigate the effect of increased doses of oestrogen and the value of transdermal administration .
4 ‘ I 'm not investigating the murder of Miss Beatrix Abberley , but I shall certainly pass on my tentative conclusions to the Sussex Police .
5 Analysts claimed that Syria was already investigating the possibility of purchasing some of the world 's most advanced weaponry .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Unfortunately for our present discussion , Greene did not investigate the production of negatives , only comprehension .
11 Obviously the GMC can not investigate the efficacy of every controversial treatment brought to its attention .
12 POLICE and fire officers were last night still investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged two car workshops in farm outbuildings .
13 Police believe the body may have been in the field for several weeks and they 're still investigating the cause of death .
14 POLICE were yesterday investigating the death of a woman whose body was found on Monday in a house at Peter Street , Nairn .
15 It further investigates the impact of these changes on management culture and employee relations in a number of privatized companies .
16 We therefore applied these techniques to archival tissues containing sarcoid granulomas and further investigated the viability of this widely available tissue source in research based on polymerase chain reaction techniques .
17 County councillors voted yesterday to investigate the cost of providing the more expensive gates at junctions in Colchester and Kelvedon .
18 The charity commission and the police are both investigating the dissapearance of the cash .
19 Town hall officers are also investigating the possibility of Shop mobility buses and even electric buses to go backwards and forwards between disabled car parking areas and the shops .
20 The drug companies are also investigating the possibility of using needles and twigs , obtained harmlessly during routine clipping , from other ornamental yew species .
21 Scurr is also investigating the use of laporoscopy , where two tiny holes are made at the navel and the hernia repaired from inside .
22 The study also investigates the system of performance management and measurement within certain central government departments and in a sample of large firms .
23 The study also investigates the use of novel research methodology , including the use of identical twins , and new instrumentation .
24 He has called on the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , to ensure that the Scottish Office or the Department of Trade and Industry urgently investigates the condition of the Scottish manufacturing base .
25 We also investigated the presence of the enzyme able to convert L-arginine to NO in tissue homogenates from guinea pig gall bladder .
26 He also investigated the effect of temperature on feeding : at 20 ° C , the whelks averaged 16 barnacles or 0.7 of a mussel per week whilst at 15 ° C the figures were 10.2 and 0.4 respectively .
27 Murphy ( 1987 ) also investigated the distribution of the returns on 15 futures for a common maturity and month of the year .
28 An international " frog force " has been set up to investigate the decline of the world 's amphibian populations .
29 A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the extent of the responsibility of the security service ( StB ) for , and the political background to , the violent police action against student demonstrators on Nov. 17 , 1989 [ see p. 37026 ] published its report on May 9 .
30 In addition we have also investigated the involvement of platelet activating factor in the endothelin induced fibrinolytic activation .
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