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