1.   Brook has sifted the evidence and summarises it clearly.

2.   The police sifted the evidence in hopes of finding a clue.

3.   Americans got to sift the evidence and to vote for themselves.

4.   Another tribunal is sifting evidence and hearing cases involving the Balkans.

5.   As they sift the evidence, archeologists are finding surprising new elements that may have conspired with drier weather to bring about the calamitous fall.

6.   The latest historian to sift the evidence, Annette Gordon-Reed, thinks there probably was an affair.

7.   They said they worked methodically, sifting evidence and hewing carefully to the law.

8.   Hundreds of people in Australia, Britain, Germany and New Zealand were interviewed and computers sifted evidence to track the suspect.

9.   Investigators are spending hundreds of hours sifting the evidence, scrutinizing witness reports and interrogating the nine photographers and one press motorcyclist under official investigation.