They concluded that an architect should be engaged immediately to ascertain the extent of the damage and the probable cost of repairs.
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The seminary responded by hiring a law firm to contact all alumni in order to ascertain the extent of the problem and offer assistance.
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Excavations in the 1920s ascertained the extent of the surviving rooms, and the vaults were reconstructed in 1929.
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