1.   At this point a visual inspection took place to ensure that there were no leaks.

2.   The inspection took place last July just after two suspected terrorists broke out of Brixton.

3.   At Houston Intercontinental Airport, officers stopped every vehicle entering the parking garages, though the inspection took barely a minute when a reporter and photographer arrived last week.

4.   Baghdad received no prior information about exactly where these inspections would take place.

5.   Because few inspections took place, he said, environmental damage may have gone undetected.

6.   But any plan to open up liaison offices -- a precursor to diplomatic recognition -- should be out of the question until the inspections take place.

7.   But meanwhile, no on-site arms inspections are taking place because Butler has refused to drop Americans from his team.

8.   But the inspections take a back seat to higher priorities, including fighting fires, of course, and maintaining hydrants.

9.   Butler has said information collected on these tours will be used to decide when and where spot follow-up inspections will take place later.

10.   He declined to speculate how long the inspections could take, since the sites are of different sizes and dispersed around the country.