11.   The probe had already begun days late.

12.   The pipeline probe began when landowners and construction workers complained that safety and environmental regulations were being ignored during the speeded-up construction of the pipeline.

13.   The official declined to say when the probe began, or which companies were involved.

14.   The probe began this summer and was first revealed last week.

15.   The probe began after Bar-On, appointed in January as attorney general, resigned after only a few hours amid criticism that he was a political crony.

16.   The stock exchange said the probe began yesterday, and was prompted by a belief that details of the controls were leaked to traders.

17.   Then the deeper, broader, more meaningful probe can begin.

18.   Three minutes after the probe began heating up, steam seemed to rise from the malignant cells.

19.   Asked what the most difficult moment was since the probe began, Netanyahu stopped and looked down.

20.   Bahaji had also been under investigation at one point for his involvement in Islamic groups in Hamburg, but officials have not disclosed when the probe began or ended.