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

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1 It is appropriate for infants who suffer events to be investigated for the presence of respiratory pathogens , particularly Bordetella pertussis and respiratory syncytial virus .
2 Areas immediately above the tumour were also investigated for the presence of metaplastic epithelium .
3 The proteolytic activity of homogenates of gastric mucosa ( antrum and body ) and duodenum were measured at pH 2.0 ( total peptic activity ) after exposure to pH 8.0 ( pepsinogen ) and the activated pepsinogen ( pepsin ) was calculated in pediatric patients investigated for the presence of Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) , 122 antral , 77 stomach body , and 74 duodenal biopsies were examined in 43 H pylori positive patients , 51 controls , and 28 H pylori negative gastritis patients .
4 Each patient 's state of health on 1 January 1990 was investigated during the spring of 1991 .
5 The leadership of the National Police was to be investigated following the testimony of Police Capt. Waldo Panozo , on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 to a Chamber of Deputies Commission on the Constitution .
6 They confirm Mrs Bucks ' complaint is being investigated under the supervision of the Police complaints authority .
7 The statutory scheme for bankruptcy is to be found in the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Insolvency Rules 1986 and has the following main objectives : ( 1 ) to enable the bankrupt 's affairs and dealings to be investigated under the control of the court ; ( 2 ) to provide the statutory machinery for the collection and rateable distribution of the bankrupt 's available assets ( or those assets which ought to form part of his estate ) with a view to satisfying his debts so far as may be practicable ; ( 3 ) to rehabilitate the bankrupt through the process of discharge .
8 Technical services have been asked to investigate the situation at the tunnel near Mossy Mill and investigate into the matter of the use of Woodhall Mill are being made .
9 Consider this example : ‘ The censuring [ sic ] of the follow-up period indicated that progression to high grade dyskaryosis would need to be assessed by Kaplan-Meier life table techniques and comparisons made by the log rank test ’ ( the natural history of cervical cancer had been investigated in the west of England in 1981–90 ) .
10 In the past , firms not authorised for investment business could feel fairly secure in the knowledge that if they did stray into it they would only be investigated in the event of a complaint .
11 The incidence of gastric cancer was investigated in the cohort of persons who used cimetidine in 1977–81 .
12 However , the causal influence of such characteristics can not be considered by itself , and must be investigated in the context of particular societies .
13 The purpose of s 447 is to allow suspicions of misconduct , such as fraudulent trading , theft , disqualified directors or undischarged bankrupts acting as directors , prospectus offences , and so on , to be investigated without the risk of publicly harming the company .
14 In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property .
15 It must be assumed that the title was properly investigated at the time of the purchase by the husband and wife .
16 If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife .
17 If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband , it would be appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title , although it seems to be accepted in practice that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase .
18 If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase .
19 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
20 The Welsh Tourist Board 's system of recommending self-catering holiday accommodation is to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading for ‘ possible anti-competitive practices ’ .
21 The Welsh Tourist Board 's system of recommending self-catering holiday accommodation is to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading for ‘ possible anti-competitive practices ’ .
22 The cost of coffee is being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading after claims that price falls on international markets have not been matched in the shops .
23 The proposal , unveiled in April , was initially investigated by the Office of Fair Trading and then referred to the MMC three months later for a more detailed probe .
24 The respondents , not surprisingly , took the view , as did B. & C. itself , that serious questions have to be investigated concerning the conduct of Atlantic 's business before and after the acquisition and as to the representations made to B. & C. prior to the acquisition .
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