All of this simply served to distract from the actual investigation itself.

The Metroplex law enforcement agencies shared a crime database; however, there was still the problem of coordinating the actual investigations.

Atomic theory stayed as a mostly philosophical subject, with not much actual scientific investigation or study, until the development of chemistry in the 1600s.

(Much of the novel's material was based on the author's actual investigations.)

"I think the actual investigation of child protection cases should be taken away from social workers and given to the police," she says.

In fact, the forensic psychologist rarely gets involved in the actual criminal investigations.

You must go about an actual investigation, using the IP address as evidence.

I wonder if any actual investigations were trashed by this.

One is a pseudo-intellectual examination of what it means to be 'western'; the other is yer actual investigation.

Putting this staff together and deciding what to do with it has slowed the pace of the actual investigations by the commission.