VERB | to investigate | investigated | investigated investigating | investigates | |
SYNO | to enquire | to inquire | to investigate | ... |
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- In April 2003, the Karzai administration created a commission to investigate the assassination of Massoud.
- An expedition in May 2008 by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts, as well as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to investigate the effects of climate change of the Southern Ocean.
- After the accident, the spacecraft was removed and taken to Kennedy Space Center to facilitate the review board's disassembly in order to investigate the cause of the fire.
- The DeVoses supported an amendment to the US House of Representatives' omnibus Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018 by US Representative John Moolenaar that would have limited the ability of the FTC to investigate whether MLMs are pyramid schemes.
- In the same year he started the Rapid Arithmetical Machine project to investigate the problems of constructing an electronic digital computer.
- Even though the authorities were unlikely to investigate such a well-connected person as Caravaggio, "Once an artist had been smeared as a pederast, his work was smeared too."
- The program was secret until March 8, 1971, when the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burgled an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, took several dossiers, and exposed the program by passing this material to news agencies.
- They no longer exist, but detailed descriptions of their design and construction survive, They illustrate how quickly the theory of the mechanical clock had been translated into practical constructions, and also that one of the many impulses to their development had been the desire of astronomers to investigate celestial phenomena.
- The Dokes were supposed to investigate, whether the mission in Lambaland could be taken over by the Baptist Union of South Africa.
- Much work has been done to investigate optimal bicycle saddle shape, size and position, and negative effects of extended use of less than optimal seats or configurations.
- was detached from the convoy escort to investigate.
- Debates on the Reform Bill (eventually the Reform Act 1832) lamented the diversity of polity of such town corporations, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate this.
- Its superb genetic amenability and relatively large size have provided the powerful tools required to investigate a bacterium from all possible aspects.
- In December 2011, in response to accusations of mishandling of student reports of sexual abuse (most of which had occurred in their home churches when the students were minors) and a concurrent reporting issue at a church pastored by a university board member, the BJU board of trustees hired an independent ombudsman, GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment), to investigate.
- It examined the wrecks of "Invincible", "Queen Mary", "Defence", and "Lützow" to investigate the cause of the British ships' tendency to suffer from internal explosions.
- In 1995, the first report on attempted isolation of the element was unsuccessful, prompting new theoretical studies to investigate how best to investigate bohrium (using its lighter homologs technetium and rhenium for comparison) and removing unwanted contaminating elements such as the trivalent actinides, the group 5 elements, and polonium.
- He immediately began studying biological systems using the optical tweezers, which are now widely used to investigate the machinery of life.
- Janet Reno was called on to investigate the matter by Trent Lott, but she refused.
- Schopenhauer asserts that the task of ethics is not to prescribe moral actions that ought to be done, but to investigate moral actions.
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