extensive investigation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextensiveandinvestigation
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extensive
adjective
uk/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/us/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/
covering a large area; having 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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A moreextensiveinvestigationwould have widened the scope, but is unlikely to have altered the results in any significant way.
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Over the past decade, there has beenextensiveinvestigationof the molecular events underlying tissue fibrogenesis.
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Such patients, who frequently attend services, may undergoextensiveinvestigationand medical treatment but the benefits of this form of management are unclear.
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However,extensiveinvestigationfailed to identify any known defect of immunity predisposing to such infections.
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In retrospect, one can only be amazed that such anextensiveinvestigationhas never been taken on earlier.
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Each of these requiredextensiveinvestigationand assessment.
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These challenges to the proposed universal sequence of lexical development have been controversial, but they are also plausible and important, warranting moreextensiveinvestigation.
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The pathways leading to apoptosis are complicated and have been the subject ofextensiveinvestigation.
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He was under arrest for several days in 1938, was the subject ofextensiveinvestigationand so on.
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Anextensiveinvestigationdid not reveal any evidence for transmission by cattle, other animal species, humans, or equipment.
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It is built aroundextensiveinvestigationof actual curricular texts and interaction.
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Here, surely, is an area of research that deserves moreextensiveinvestigation.
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Despiteextensiveinvestigation, knowledge in this field remains limited, which motivates further scientific studies.
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The results have continuously stimulatedextensiveinvestigationand development in this area of research.
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Extensiveinvestigationto determine genetic coagulation disorders is meaningful only in patients who are young, who have experienced previous thrombosis, or who have close relatives with thrombosis.
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Announcement of anextensiveinvestigationabout lines, whose behavior in the solar spectrum is exceptional, depending upon level, intensity, wavelength or molecular weight, also including the cyanogen band.
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These are sensitive and difficult cases which requireextensiveinvestigationbefore any return can be made.
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I should require notice of that question, which would involve a great deal ofextensiveinvestigation.
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I understand that anextensiveinvestigationwas carried out by their officers, but insufficient evidence was discovered to support a prosecution.
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We looked at actual recent cases of serious crime which requiredextensiveinvestigation, and found that only on rare occasions was 96 hours necessary.
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