noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deal with an enquiry
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Our staff will be able to deal with any enquiries.
directory enquiries
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
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There may be other issues of importance to individual prospective investors, who must make additional enquiries as they see necessary.
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However, the Protocol system does not encourage additional enquiries on detailed and pernickety points.
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An opportunity will be made available for prospective investors to make additional enquiries .
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Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.
further
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The Lord Advocate ordered further enquiries to be made.
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In certain cases the value is left out, perhaps pending further enquiry .
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The book will help you tell one bird from another and that will be the spur to further enquiry .
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Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries .
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Two major problems dominate further enquiry into today's fertility patterns and trends in Britain and the whole industrial world.
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They were back in Nottingham again on 29 July, making further enquiries .
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Nine other people have been bailed, pending further enquiries .
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This mailing resulted in an immediate response by over 20 companies, and further enquiries on an on-going basis.
general
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The Reject Shop, for general information and enquiries , full branch addresses and transport details; tel: 071-736 7474.
historical
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In every other sphere of historical enquiry , new material is acknowledged.
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Peter Roberts writing in 1981 put in a plea for more textbooks that deal with the processes of historical enquiry .
official
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The discourses of these enquiries overlapped, from popular newspapers through statistical surveys and scholarly works to official boards of enquiry.
preliminary
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The purchaser's solicitors will raise preliminary enquiries with the vendor's solicitors to obtain general information about the property.
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The questions on both forms are broadly identical to those contained on the more traditional preliminary enquiry forms.
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The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.
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This problem can usually be resolved by the standard preliminary enquiries .
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Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.
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Searches prior to completion and replies Obtain from the seller the preliminary search and enquiries of the local authority.
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It is therefore important to keep stocks of the old stationery for dealing with preliminary enquiries in your office.
public
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The plan is due to go before a public enquiry next summer.
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Public opinion on proposals for change is made known at public enquiries .
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The third function, which belongs principally to ministerial and public enquiries , is advice.
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An example would be an ad hoe public enquiry into a serious railway accident.
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It can be controversial and I envisage that fixing zone boundaries would require a procedure of public enquiry etc.
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Our image information is an under-used resource of enormous potential value for scientific research, public enquiries , and commercial development.
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The Secretary of State is now likely to call in the application and subject it to a public enquiry .
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We will introduce a fairer system for all school reorganisations, with independent public enquiries .
scientific
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Its accounts, however accurate at this level, remain stuck at this preliminary stage of scientific enquiry .
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The actual work was related to scientific observation, enquiry , recording as well as learning how to behave in a group.
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Gaia as a catalyst for scientific enquiry .
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Yet one of the conditions for any scientific enquiry is to realise that something is in need of explanation.
■ NOUN
directory
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Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.
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Pascoe had obtained the number from directory enquiries and listened to her answerphone message a dozen times or more.
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She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang.
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First he rang directory enquiries and then the operator.
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Perhaps she should get his number from directory enquiries .
form
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The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual accuracy of the advertisement.
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Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.
number
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Reader enquiry number 134 Downlighters Designed Architectural Lighting has launched a new range of 14 downlighters.
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For further information on a particular company's products, please circle the appropriate enquiry number on the reader service card.
reader
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Together with other Library staff, responsible for reader assistance and helping with reader enquiries . 11.
service
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A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers - the variety is so large as to make description impossible.
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They are again important as supplements to the enquiry service .
telephone
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Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory.
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It has been produced because of the telephone enquiries we are now receiving following publicity in the national press.
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Several reference site visits and telephone enquiries to current users were then made.
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Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services.
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The library office is open for telephone enquiries and our information officers are more than happy to receive your calls.
■ VERB
answer
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Our staff will be pleased to answer your enquiries and take your booking.
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He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries .
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Staff require access to most information resources in order to answer enquiries .
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These leaflets should include horticultural advice, so that they can be used to answer enquiries .
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The reception office should be so organised that all sources of information necessary to answer enquiries are immediately to hand.
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Many of the cases are responsa, in which the jurist is answering a legal enquiry .
conduct
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It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions.
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The magistrate may question the suspect and other witnesses and conduct his own enquiries .
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The company that sent in the bailiffs, Bristow and Sutor, say they're conducting an enquiry .
deal
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Bull has set up a freephone number to deal with customer enquiries .
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I've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day.
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Anyone else asking for information should immediately be referred to the manager who will take the responsibility of dealing with the enquiry .
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Over the last year it has dealt with enquiries from about 450 former service personnel.
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My department will deal with all enquiries resulting from the canvas, including those concerning banding.
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They provide information for the receptionist when dealing with enquiries for the guests as to what standard equipment is in the room.
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More than 85% of those questioned say they think stores should have freephone numbers to deal with shoppers' enquiries .
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They will either deal with your enquiry or direct you to the appropriate department in the University.
follow
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The massive effort of the 1970s Royal Commission is to be followed by yet another enquiry .
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The teacher must also be prepared to follow up lines of enquiry started by the pupils.
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Benefits calculation packages are especially popular with inexperienced advice workers to ensure that they have followed every avenue of enquiry .
handle
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I gave out my home address to save Radio Leicester having to handle the enquiries .
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In 1989-90 the service handled 6,959,276 enquiries , an increase of 38 percent. over 1982 - 83.
help
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He's been taken back to Banbury where's he helping police with their enquiries .
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A police spokesman added that the businessman on whose premises the bikes were found was helping with their enquiries .
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It was organised by the Chamber of Shipping, whose personnel were on hand to help with enquiries .
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A twenty year old man is now helping police with their enquiries .
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Drawings, identikit pictures, character descriptions will all help our enquiries .
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It will help us with our enquiries if you can give us the envelope or the outer wrapping.
make
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Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries .
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If in doubt take a needle with you and make enquiries before you buy. 8.
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Nellie had no idea where her friend Aggie could obtain a neutered tomcat but she had made enquiries .
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Other applicants should also make enquiries early in the year in which they propose to commence a postgraduate course. 1.
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Quite often, the police ask for a remand to give them time to make further enquiries , assemble their evidence and so on.
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By all means make enquiries in order to aid observation.
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All the same, progress was being made with the enquiries into Pierre's disappearance.
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If in doubt, the developer should check the levels of noise at different times and make enquiries with local people.
pursue
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It rests on a readiness on the part of practitioners to pursue their own enquiries in the very process of classroom teaching.
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If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further, he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze.
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All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.
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Margaret was encouraged to continue pursuing her enquiries with the solicitor.
receive
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Yet each year the Equal Opportunities Commission receives between 700-800 enquiries relating to pregnancy dismissals.
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The service currently receives over 790O enquiries a year from members on a wide range of topics.
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Within five minutes, they had received over one hundred enquiries .
start
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They recognised you, and described me well enough for him to start making enquiries .
undertake
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Since that time, no other organization has, to our knowledge, undertaken so comprehensive an enquiry .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eliminate sb from your enquiries
house-to-house inquiries/search/collection etc
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Another was a newcomer to our church and to our city, doing an Edinburgh house-to-house collection for the first time.
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It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches.
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Officers would also be making house-to-house inquiries, said a Hertfordshire Police spokesman.
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Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches.
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Road blocks were set up and a helicopter brought in from Manchester as police began house-to-house inquiries.
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Some 200 militants were arrested in house-to-house searches beginning on April 13.
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The street collection raised £255.41 and the house-to-house collection realised £2,928.
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We will be making street and house-to-house collections during Battle of Britain Week.
sb is helping the police with their enquiries
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Detective Chief Inspector Kenneth Harris, in a radio interview, announced that another line of enquiry was being pursued.
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Her friendly enquiry as to the whereabouts of the Red House was met by a hostile stare from the woman behind the counter.
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If in doubt take a needle with you and make enquiries before you buy. 8.
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It specifically made visible the gap in post-elementary provision, one to which the subsequent enquiries addressed themselves.
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Members of the society were sending 100,000 enquiries a year to its central office about credit worthiness.
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The biggest single problem area was in the provision of an on-line enquiry facility for adhoc information requirements.
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The local authority will make enquiries to see if the funeral can be paid for by a relative.