By close examination you can determine whether the litter was discarded before or after the last rain.

The report had recommended access to the higher ranks of the service by open competition and public examination.

Entrance is by competitive examination, with students drawn from all areas of the city.

Only by close examination could anyone have discovered that her little form lay hidden beneath them.

One sheet has been torn from it, as you can see by simple examination.

The mind can never possibly find the effect in the supposed cause, by the most accurate scrutiny and examination.

But I hear they let them in now by examination.

Basic course required of all students not qualified by examination.

Not included in the survey were selective public high schools that admit more than half their students by competitive examination.

I hadn't the slightest notion what they had discovered by direct examination.