Example sentences of "[was/were] under investigation " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the London Times ( 3 November 1987 ) , at that time more than a hundred party members were under investigation , and scores more had been arrested . |
| 2 | Two company directors and a company were under investigation by the Customs and Excise Commissioners regarding possible offences against the Exchange Control Act 1947 . |
| 3 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 1 , 1990 , more than 3,500 officers were under investigation for suspected involvement in the pro-democracy movement . |
| 4 | He added that 900 criminal cases were under investigation of which 200 related specifically to charges of collaboration . |
| 5 | He said that one police officer found guilty of abuses had been discharged , three had been punished and five were under investigation . |
| 6 | A total of 13 deputies and former ministers were under investigation by Milan magistrates , and nine were being investigated in other towns . |
| 7 | Although Attorney General William Barr refused to comment on the appointment of former District of Columbia federal attorney Joseph diGenova or to confirm which officials were under investigation , it was widely reported that the latter included outgoing Chief of Staff James Baker . |
| 8 | She was under investigation for allegedly ordering unspecified illegal payments in her former post but denied direct responsibility or any resulting personal gain . ) |
| 9 | Gingrich was under investigation concerning the unusual methods used to promote the sale of a book which he had co-authored by which contributors put up funds in advance of royalties . |
| 10 | Both Mielke and Tisch ( who was under investigation for abuse of confidence and embezzlement and was formally arrested on July 20 for disloyalty detrimental to national property ) were moved to a West Berlin prison hospital on Oct. 4 . |
| 11 | The Chief of Federal Police , Romeu Tuma , who was under investigation by the military police allegedly for favouring smugglers shipping coffee into Paraguay , announced on April 1 that he intended to resign . |
| 12 | The Minister for Public Works in the outgoing government , Giovanni Prandini , a Christian Democrat , was on June 12 warned by Rome magistrates that he was under investigation in connection with the allocation of public funds for the construction of a motorway in the Puglian province of Táranto . |
| 13 | Gianni De Michelis ( Socialist Unity Party , usually referred to as the PSI ) , who had been Foreign Minister in the previous government , was told on July 14 that he was under investigation for corruption . |
| 14 | According to a government communiqué after the coup attempt , Gen. Marcos Zarate Rota , the commander of the army , had also been involved in the conspiracy and was under investigation for drug trafficking . |
| 15 | The secretary-general of the socialists ( PSI ) Bettino Craxi on Dec. 15 received a cautionary warrant advising him that he was under investigation by Milan magistrates for 40 instances of receiving money illegally since 1985 in violation of the law on party finances . |
| 16 | In this way observed differences in yields , or whatever property was under investigation , could be accounted for . |
| 17 | THE DEATH of two Royal Marines from 45 Commando , based in Arbroath , while on a Arctic training exercise in Norway , was under investigation by the Ministry of Defence last night . |