Preposition: in

• order: But as said above, inquiries cannot be allowed to be any less thorough in order to keep within estimated budgets.

Modifies a noun

• grounding: The idea is to give you a thorough grounding in English literature from the medieval period to the present day.

• understanding: Graduates have a thorough understanding of current practice in a range of heritage contexts.

• investigation: What is lacking is a thorough investigation of the subject.

• examination: A thorough examination of French politics at the turn of the century.

• overhaul: The Group Internet web site, established a year ago, is undergoing a thorough overhaul.

• cleaning: Is simply unused to getting such a thorough cleaning.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: The Help System SPSS has an extremely thorough Help system accessible from the Help menu.

• remarkably: He amassed a remarkably thorough and varied collection of explorers ' accounts, geographic works, and maps for his personal library.

• sufficiently: For a program which performs a ' mission critical ' task for the organization using it the rationale must be sufficiently thorough.

• very: The document includes a very thorough description of all command line options.

• fairly: I've done a fairly thorough amount of altering to get the cart to server our purposes.

• reasonably: And, as ever, History will do a reasonably thorough job of erasing the no-talent fools from popular consciousness.

Used with adjective complement

• pass: Follow the road for approximately 4 miles passing thorough Whitecroft village and into Parkend village.

• go: This site outlines the how research projects involving animals at the NIMR take place going thorough each stage of the process.

• seem: There's rather a lot of it and it seems thorough.

• appear: But at least the entries appear thorough since the author cites these different sources even when they appear conflicting and contradictory.

• come: They don't come much more thorough than this!

• get: Even if they do get thorough, their claim may falter due to a shortage of components.