A table of shells, bones and pelts invites hands-on examination, and magnifying glasses are available for a closer look at creatures in the tanks.

He turned from a hands-on examination of the contents of her dresser table to finger the padded Oriental silks of her garment.

There's a lot we can determine about it simply from observation and a judicious bit of hands-on examination.

It also allows easy standardization, hands-on examination, and reduces misidentification of species.

How can this inventorying information be gathered and updated automatically, without direct hands-on examination of each device, and without hand-documenting with a pen and notepad?

They have neither the time nor the equipment to get to the cliff for a hands-on examination.

Because he was accompanied by Roy, Rick was allowed into the roped-off area around the craft and permitted a hands-on examination of the ship.

The hands-on examination of objects is an essential feature of study at the BGC.

I would like a closer look at it, or better still, a hands-on examination.

"I would like to make a closer, hands-on examination of both patients," it went on, "for purposes of comparison and to obtain physical confirmation of the scanner findings."