preliminary investigation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreliminaryandinvestigation
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preliminary
adjective[before noun]
uk/prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/us/prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/
coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing ...
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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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In thispreliminaryinvestigationonly the chemical probe actually penetrates the ground.
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Addressing this issue, we would like to stress that this is apreliminaryinvestigation.
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Before we confront this question, apreliminaryinvestigationis in order.
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Apreliminaryinvestigationof generalization to untrained words following two treatments of children's word-finding problems.
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Preliminaryinvestigationshowed that these measurements were inaccurate and rather subjective.
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Apreliminaryinvestigationof nonlinear affects is reported in the next section.
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Most witness statements were recorded during thepreliminaryinvestigationof the cases.
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We now summarize thispreliminaryinvestigationof an acquisition-based model of language change.
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For thispreliminaryinvestigationa simple, well-constrained application was required that was also potentially useful.
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Determined frompreliminaryinvestigationand the literature.
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Exposure and reactivity to negative social exchanges: apreliminaryinvestigationusing daily diary data.
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Preliminaryinvestigationdid not suggest a food vehicle but did indicate environmental exposure at the camp as a risk factor.
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Ourpreliminaryinvestigationof the long-term accessibility of early memories was based on a sample of only 12.
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However, the conclusions that can be drawn from thispreliminaryinvestigationare limited by aspects of the study design.
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Insects at 3 days old were considered to be immature aspreliminaryinvestigationshowed that no mature eggs were present in females of this age.
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The research reported here should therefore be seen as apreliminaryinvestigation.
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The preference rarely changed after thepreliminaryinvestigation.
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Thispreliminaryinvestigationdoes not take into account the ratios of the schistosomes in each infection, which may influence the dynamics of the interactions observed.
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