initial inspection

collocation in English

meaningsofinitialandinspection

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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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inspection
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈspek.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈspek.ʃən/
the act of looking at something carefully, or an official visit to a building or organization to check that everything is correct ...
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(Definition ofinitialandinspectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Initialinspectionof these data indicated that the children found some items particularly hard.
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Oninitialinspection, there was no evidence of the pulmonary trunk.
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Withinitialinspection, procedures for the standardization of serum production were established.
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This is the number of neurons whose activity appeared, frominitialinspection, to have some relationship to eye movements.
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That is admirable, but it is aninitialinspection.
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It is theinitialinspectionthat will be the important one.
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Registration andinitialinspection, as proposed in the amendment, should provide such a safeguard.
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Initialinspectionrevealed the cause to be corrosion from the inside, mainly adjacent to the welds.
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But, even so, some kind ofinitialinspectionwould still be necessary.
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That is a large sum of money which, oninitialinspection, seems generous.
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Secondly, in the medium term, the publishedinitialinspectionreports will also add to the picture on the crucial issue of educational quality.
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It is fine to say that there will be aninitialinspectionwithin 24 months, but that is only part of the story.
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It appears oninitialinspectionthat the standards task force is to be largely a talking shop, but there is also to be a standards and effectiveness unit.
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Initialinspectionindicated that damage was confined to the bumper system designed to protect the bridge from collision damage.
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Inspections may therefore take place in any of the ten years of an agreement: the need for any follow-up inspections will be assessed in the light of theinitialinspection.
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Teams performed aninitialinspectionof the flight seal and quick disconnect prior to sending them to labs for a thorough engineering analysis.
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Initialinspectionof the car shows that there is a lot of work ahead to see this car back in service.
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