The Prime Minister said that he didn't want to pre-empt the findings of the inquiry by making any policy changes before its recommendations were handed down.

All this seems strange to you," continued Holmes, "because you failed at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single real clue which was presented to you. I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it."

Every art and every inquiry seem to aim at some good.

This subject is outside the scope of our inquiry.

We have just received an inquiry from Kansas concerning your brother.

These old men heard his call and hastened to the spot. They were still vigorous, with hands hardened by the toils of husbandry, and they stoutly took the young man's part against the Methymnaeans, demanding an inquiry in accordance with the rules of justice.

The inquiry's preliminary findings have been published.

What is your field of study, your domain of inquiry, your major interest?

This discovery opened up the floodgates to research and led to the establishment of the discipline as a legitimate field of inquiry.

The inquiry's recommendations were presented in a report.