Today, the Mail on Sunday's editor (and Press Complaints Commission member) Peter Wright was questioned very closely and appropriately in a prolonged examination.

Kierad@an was deeply grateful for the change of scenery after the prolonged examination of his own soul.

Almost large enough to step into, they are initially enticing, yet prolonged examination reveals subtle tales of desperation and man's inhumanity to both man and nature.

He went to Russia for a prolonged examination of the newly established Communist regime there and to Spain during the height of the Civil War.

She satisfied, at Poictiers, the divines of the national party after a prolonged examination, of which the record, 'The Book of Poictiers,' has disappeared.

The Greek fell into a prolonged and brooding examination of his wineglass.

This cave is one of the most extensive in all Mexico according to prolonged examinations of over two kilometers.

Desperate, she took Shobha to a doctor who, after prolonged examination and treatment, told her that God alone could help her fulfill her yearning for a grandchild.

Although the trial would involve a prolonged examination of financial documents, the Court of Appeal was moved by the personal plea of the editor of "The Times" that free speech issues should be decided by a jury.

Indeed no very prolonged or detailed examination was called for: Mrs Homer was pregnant, as she had known perfectly well since the last change of the moon.