noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crash investigator (= someone who tries to find the cause of a crash )
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Crash investigators spent several days examining the scene.
an accident investigator
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Accident investigators have been there all morning.
private investigator
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
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David Campos, the chief investigator , is troubled by the long delay.
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Gerstein did not know what was in the records, but his chief investigator , Martin Dardis, would.
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Now the vanished figure is the chief investigator in that slaying, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla.
congressional
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But congressional investigators said bank claims of confidentiality kept them from establishing precisely how much profit banks are reaping from the surcharges.
federal
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It has survived several challenges by federal investigators .
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State and federal investigators believe the substance may have been illegally dumped or leaked into the water.
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Police and federal investigators do not believe the two bombing events are connected.
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Findings by the examiners could assist federal investigators seeking a cause for the crash.
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They argued that Manning did not remember McVeigh leaving his shop until after almost a dozen interviews with federal investigators .
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Jones wanted Davis on the stand because Davis had previously told federal investigators that the man in the room was not McVeigh.
independent
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An independent investigator outside the surgical team was not used.
principal
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This convention results in the last authors - who usually include the principal investigator - being dropped from the citation.
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William Evans designed pharmacological studies and was a principal investigator on the primary leukaemia protocol.
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Ching-Hon Pui was a principal investigator of the leukaemia treatment protocols and interpreted the data.
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The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years.
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We invited the principal investigators from the remaining 7 trials to participate in this analysis and they agreed.
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A mathematical theory of statistical predictors and how to assess their accuracy has been developed by the principal investigator and others.
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The research is being undertaken on an inter-disciplinary basis and the two principal investigators are an economist and a social policy specialist.
private
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The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
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Her family hired private investigators to find their daughter.
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Others use private investigators when employees have been threatened or workers have complained about on-the-job harassment.
social
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A social investigator and lecturer, he established a cross-class liaison with Hannah Cullwick, a Shropshire servant, in the 1850s.
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Policy makers and social investigators assumed that all married women would be dependent on their husbands for financial support.
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Throughout the period policy makers and social investigators were anxious that husbands should fulfil their obligation to maintain dependent wives and children.
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To watch and to listen are two important activities for the social investigator studying social behaviour as it really happens.
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It was they who were scrutinized by Orwell, the Pilgrim Trust and other social investigators .
■ NOUN
accident
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Air accident investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash.
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Applications to fly executive jets were rejected and an attempt to become a government air accident investigator failed.
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Last night, accident investigators were still trying to find out what exactly caused the disaster.
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By the time the accident investigator arrives on the scene, however, the ice has melted and the evidence has vanished.
crash
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Air crash investigators told the inquest that the battery recovered from the wreckage was flat.
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The crash investigators won't report until next year on why their low level training flight went so wrong.
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A crash investigator told the court he'd calculated the speed using a reconstruction and tyre marks left on the road.
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After crash investigators had finished the painstaking work of examining the scene for clues, the plane was partly dismantled.
homicide
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Among the haunting similarities: criticism directed at homicide investigators for mishandling evidence.
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A homicide investigator confirmed this in an interview Sept. 9.
insurance
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So it wouldn't have just been insurance investigators ferreting about - it would have been the world's press as well.
■ VERB
accord
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He was charming, expansive and, according to investigators , a danger to the well-being of associates who fell from favor.
hire
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The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
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Her family hired private investigators to find their daughter.
lead
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These differences have led some investigators to consider cancer of the cardia as a separate entity.
say
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A police spokesman said Board of Trade investigators would be notified.
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But a department official said investigators have not found enough evidence to justify a full-fledged investigation.
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She had been called previously, she said , by investigators for the House and Senate committees probing Democratic fund-raising.
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Fosco said WildCare investigators believed pseudo-rabies and distemper might both be involved.
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Last week, the Justice Department said investigators would check for evidence of collusion and price-fixing in the industry.
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Brophy said investigators are looking into whether the man was using the fuel to keep warm.
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Cossio said his investigators also made some breakthroughs in kidnappings.
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Berkeley police Detective Derek Bertauche said investigators have not determined if the victims were targeted.
tell
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The subject of the test had to tell the investigator which way the spots were drifting.
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The couple were arrested Wednesday after two of the boys finally told investigators of the alleged abuse, police said.
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Michael Osborne told investigators that drugs were so prevalent at Cyberzone that undercover agents needed help from fellow deputies working off-duty.
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Three of the seven players told investigators they put Tiger in a bag and beat her with baseball bats.
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Lake told investigators he thought the certificate meant the sale had been completed.
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Flynn told investigators that he did not know how Fisher had arranged to pay for the trip, the source said.
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She told investigators that May raped her.
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Jones wanted Davis on the stand because Davis had previously told federal investigators that the man in the room was not McVeigh.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A team of special investigators have gone to the scene of the explosion.
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The investigator has concluded that they were making a false insurance claim.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After confessing, Flores agreed to cooperate with investigators.
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Federal investigators are trying to prove that Dime employees conspired to falsify loan documents, court records show.
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His revelations amazed the investigators who had believed they were dealing with a limited case.
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In December 1996 investigators raided his home outside Munich.
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Making arrangements for the engineering investigators to cope with the jet age posed much less difficulty.
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Only 1 of 6 observed episodes of asthma was believed by the clinical investigators to be related to therapy.
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The investigator dispatched to probe the incident blamed the Tonghaks for the trouble.