close inspection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandinspection
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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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 ofcloseandinspectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofclose inspection
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Oncloseinspectionthey turned out to be but half true.
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Oncloseinspection, information flow does not say a great deal about society, institutions and architecture.
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Uponcloseinspection, some of this might have been presented more clearly.
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Acloseinspectionof those proofs makes it possible to distil the essence of those computations.
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First, there is nothing more we can gain throughcloseinspection.
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Therefore, my analysis is based oncloseinspectionof the graphs themselves.
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One should also consider acloseinspectionof vision, because adequate vision is important for balance.
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The second was thecloseinspectionof the prospective voter's physical appearance, attire, speech, and demeanor.
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The existence of these solutions is understood throughcloseinspectionof an associated linear operator.
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Closeinspectionrevealed that two major cell types could be identified within this population.
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Closeinspection, however, revealed that the curves are slightly decreasing in the regimen of small angular frequencies.
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Yetcloseinspectionof the table reveals that preference for democracy is not deep, even though broad.
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Closeinspectionof the present results, however, does not appear to support the entrenchment interpretation of the results.
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The results of the inter-annotator study and thecloseinspectionof the effect of the mismatches were very encouraging.
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Clearly the links are not neat, andcloseinspectionof actual samples would be necessary to confirm or reject the suggested similarities.
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Reflections ultimately determine the disposition of the columns, and oncloseinspectionthe pattern of the travertine floor slabs has irregularities.
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But if, uponcloseinspection, they share all the morally relevant features we can think of, that gives us reason to believe (3).
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Closeinspectionof the two slightly different views reveals that all published photographs of the interior correspond to the image seen by the right eye.
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Oncloseinspection, the taxation-produces-representation axiom turns out to have two major variants whose practical implications, and ideological assumptions, are often at odds.
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However,closeinspectionof the neuroimaging data suggests a more complex and less coherent picture than is implied in their review.
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Closeinspectionof these simulations shows variations of the period measured between peaks of the pressure oscillation to be approximately 10%.
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But oncloseinspectionit is the irregularities and variations that matter, adapting the system to the place and giving it its life.
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Closeinspectionof mitotic chromosomes from a number of individuals shows that there is variation in the staining and size of some chromosome homologues.
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