present investigation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpresentandinvestigation
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present
adjective
uk/ˈprez.ənt/us/ˈprez.ənt/
in a ...
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investigation
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˌves.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌves.təˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of examining a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover ...
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(Definition ofpresentandinvestigationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thepresentinvestigationconfirms the previous observation that the egg-shell is tanned.
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Thus, we were motivated to conduct thepresentinvestigation.
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Thepresentinvestigationexamines simultaneously 'activities' and ' life satisfaction'.
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The study system in thepresentinvestigationis relatively stable over time.
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The lack of linearity in dose response observed in thepresentinvestigationmight be due to any one of the aforesaid reasons.
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Therefore, crucial to thepresentinvestigation, is whether the effect of scrambling has less of an effect upon bilingual than monolingual subjects.
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Thepresentinvestigationuses the predicted-accent effect and the question-induced focus effect to examine nonnative perceptual processing of the semantic information conveyed by sentence accent.
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However, this seems less likely with the use of get-passives, the type of passive employed in thepresentinvestigation.
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These phenomena are outside the scope of thepresentinvestigation, however.
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As thepresentinvestigationis based on an independent approach, we have availed ourselves of the opportunity of comparing the respective results.
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This approach has been the basis of thepresentinvestigation.
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This topic is addressed by thepresentinvestigation.
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Over-reporting is less likely to have occurred in thepresentinvestigationfor two reasons.
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In thepresentinvestigation, an effort has been made to gather information as a basis for examining these problems.
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Thepresentinvestigationextends these data.
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One of the goals of thepresentinvestigationis to examine this assumption.
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In addition, thepresentinvestigationspecifically compared two viable alternative models for describing longitudinal change in antisocial behavior and alcohol dependence.
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For this reason, grating stimuli were used in thepresentinvestigationand the effects of contrast were investigated in the first place.
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