Local authorities check that water entering rivers meets minimum standards.

And some authority is always checking your documents or asking questions.

Anyone wishing to buy any gun, including rifles and shotguns, must wait 15 days while the authorities check on the person's background.

He would pester the authorities to check in on her.

When authorities later checked on her, they found Gotbaum dead.

Surely, the authorities would be checking with all the relatives who had visited him.

This will act as a yardstick by which industry and local authorities could check they were getting value for money, he said.

Vending machines remain shut down in Belgium until the authorities check all 11,000 of them.

The Commission will contact the relevant national authorities to check this.

We can also ask those authorities to check on goods which have already been released at the preferential rate.