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

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1 Sir Ralph Darling was no sooner in post than he turned his attention to John Piper and an official enquiry was set up to investigate the customs accounts .
2 A Committee of Inquiry appointed by the profession 's Joint Disciplinary Scheme was set up to investigate the affair in 1989 .
3 Senior management decided the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found , and a project team was set up to investigate the problem and recommend appropriate action .
4 In October 1912 both Rufus Isaacs and Lloyd George denied that they had engaged in dealings in Marconi shares , but a Select Committee was set up to investigate the allegations of sensationalist newspapers .
5 The Wilson Committee was set up to investigate the whole question of the provision of funds for industry and trade .
6 Saouma announced in March 1990 that an independent commission of inquiry under a former Swedish Prime Minister , Ola Ullsten , was to be set up to investigate the slow progress of the action plan for the tropical rainforests , set up in 1985 in collaboration with the UNDP and the World Resources Institute .
7 The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments .
8 An international " frog force " has been set up to investigate the decline of the world 's amphibian populations .
9 Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it .
10 In SAVE 's view this decision was self-contradictory and made a nonsense of the law , so SAVE immediately set about investigating the possibility of legal action .
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