investigate - use in sentences

Object

  • complaint: The Council do not investigate complaints about customer service or quality or food price.
  • possibility: BK to investigate possibilities for inviting a musician to play.
  • feasibility: Objective: To investigate the feasibility of providing pharmaceutical care to individual patients in primary care.
  • incident: We also investigate incidents which affect, or could affect, drinking water quality.
  • murder: Death's Shadow: Barnaby and Troy are called to investigate the murder of wealthy property developer.

Modifying Another Word

  • experimentally: In her current research she investigates experimentally how people learn to coordinate on esthetic concepts.

Used with why or when

  • why: UNISON, NOF and fpa investigate why the greatest ever investment in the NHS isn't reaching community services.
  • which: We will investigate which of these possibilities are correct in the research we propose here.
  • what: Investigate what an online degree can do for you.

Modifying Another Word

  • empirically: We conclude by discussing how such a model will be investigated empirically in future research.
  • extensively: Abstract Using cognitive architectures to analyze the usability of human-computer interfaces is an extensively investigated strategy.

Infinitive complement

  • determine: Administrative sources will be investigated more generally to determine whether they can be used in the compilation of the population estimates.

Preposition: in

  • detail: These ideas are investigated in greater detail through use of the computer package ` ` Exploring Small Groups ' ' .

Preposition: for

  • fraud: The scheme is being investigated for fraud among subcontractors.

Preposition: by

  • police: Rare bird eggs theft investigated The theft of up to 36 rare bird eggs from an Essex country park is being investigated by police.

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