'preliminary checks' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to initial or preparatory examinations or investigations. For example, "The mechanical engineers performed preliminary checks on the engine before starting it up."
"Our preliminary checks on this indicate that there was no corrosion anywhere near where this hole appeared," he said.
In doing just that, preliminary checks of the scripts against the classic kinescopes show that both sides may be correct.
After landing, the astronauts talked to officials and doctors and were taken into a tent for preliminary checks.
On Tuesday, the ministry stated that according to preliminary checks, the border police dealt lawfully with the "violent protest at Qalandiya," and that the firing of tear gas was justified.
The former Ameridose pharmacist said she was concerned about a pilot project in which quality control workers, rather than trained pharmacists, did preliminary checks to make sure the correct drugs were present and the pumps were set correctly before filling intravenous bags.
The applicability of the algorithms to the processing of the data of the other two Swarm satellites needs to be investigated in the future, though preliminary checks indicate that we will face additional challenges.
The company said a "preliminary check revealed no significant damage on the vessel body".
If an Olympic official suspects that a product is not authentic, the product can be scanned on the spot as a preliminary check.
N.Y.U. said it had no record of granting him a Ph.D. that year, and a preliminary check by the journals found no articles under his name.
A third A380 flight was en route from Tokyo to Frankfurt on Friday morning after a preliminary check overnight found no issues, the spokesman, Aage Duenhaupt, said.
A preliminary check of the sites failed to locate the recording, but Al Jazeera said the voice on the tape matched that of previous recordings by Mr. Abu Gheith, a Kuwaiti believed to be with Mr. bin Laden.
