21.   Alitalia said international rules allowed even unaccompanied bags aboard a plane if first checked by police.

22.   By law, campaign spending must be checked by neutral election management officials.

23.   He decided to check by climbing into the well.

24.   He discarded this model - which in the pre-computer age he had to check by laborious hand calculations - and started over again.

25.   Madden hurt his right knee after being checked by Keith Primeau and falling awkwardly to the ice.

26.   The Russian was injured again Friday in Detroit during an exhibition game when checked by American defender Brian Leetch of the New York Rangers.

27.   By sunset, the first returns, packed in dusty brown envelopes, were being checked by IEC officials.

28.   Protected by law, these organisations are rarely, if ever, checked on by authorities.