Example sentences of "confirmed [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 2 | US officials insist that Washington is not pushing the idea , but confirmed that it will be a topic of conversation when the chairman of the Federal Reserve , Alan Greenspan , visits Moscow this weekend . |
| 3 | As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market . |
| 4 | The ministry yesterday confirmed that it intended to slaughter the birds . |
| 5 | Yesterday , the Hong Kong Government confirmed that it was spending about $1,000 per head for those deported . |
| 6 | Mr Kinnock 's own union , the 1.1 million-strong Transport and General Workers ' Union , yesterday confirmed that it is to sue Mr Paddy Ashdown and six other Liberal Democrat leaders over a claim in a party newspaper that the T&G had advised members in 29 key marginals to vote Liberal Democrat rather than Labour . |
| 7 | HARLAND Simon , the process controls group whose shares have lost over 80 p.c. of their value since a profit warning in February , yesterday confirmed that it has put all its mechanical engineering operations up for sale . |
| 8 | Aircraft landing at LG 05 were seen and a recce of LG 121 confirmed that it was only used as a decoy at night . |
| 9 | The following day the shepherd took the golden cask foot to a goldsmith , who confirmed that it was genuine gold and bought it immediately . |
| 10 | But then each crew who came back confirmed that it was true . |
| 11 | It confirmed that it would supply a sea-marshal and all necessary protective equipment and training to satisfy the ship 's insurers for safe passage in the Gulf war zone . |
| 12 | W.H.R chairman Al McNicol confirmed that it has always been the Company policy to rebuild to Dinas . |
| 13 | At the time of going to press , the ITF confirmed that it was awaiting papers from Slovenia so that it could process its application to become an associate member . |
| 14 | The Electricity Bill then introduced followed in broad outline the plans foreshadowed by wartime working parties on the future of the industry , and , to the relief of the industry , confirmed that it would remain independent of coal and gas , and not be part of a National Fuel and Power Board . |
| 15 | Gossip that Next Computer Inc might abandon its hardware business to focus on its NextStep object-oriented operating environment UX No 419 ) has proved all too valid and last week the company confirmed that it is to abandon manufacture of its workstations . |
| 16 | In an interview with La Repubblica on 24 January Luigi Zanda , Chairman of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova , confirmed that it was still feasible to complete the operations in the Lagoon by the year 2000 provided there were no interruptions in the flow of funds or technical hitches . |
| 17 | In a telephone call after I read Kay 's article Medicare in Baltimore confirmed that it does cover such treatment in full . |
| 18 | When I confirmed that it was called the Skein of Geese , she pulled out one of those little books of matches they give away in such places and said : ‘ The same as this , you mean ? ’ |
| 19 | The bossy sister confirmed that it was n't possible to give an address . |
| 20 | On Oct. 6 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it had agreed to buy another squadron of MiG-29 fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union , bringing its complement up to three squadrons . |
| 21 | On Oct. 19 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it was holding Gen. François Bozize and 11 other opposition figures who had fled to Benin after an abortive coup attempt in 1982 . |
| 22 | On Sept. 10 the opposition confirmed that it would not return to the Assembly until its demands — including an early general election — had been met . |
| 23 | In statements issued after the meeting , EC officials confirmed that it would not be possible to meet the Oct. 15 GATT deadline for submitting offers on cutting farm subsidies . |
| 24 | The group confirmed that it would not sell its " core " media and film assets to meet the terms of the agreement . |
| 25 | In February the Soviet Union confirmed that it intended to withdraw its troops from Czechoslovakia and Hungary by mid-1991 . |
| 26 | On June 20 China confirmed that it had supplied short-range tactical missiles to Pakistan . |
| 27 | Following press reports , on Aug. 8 the SADF confirmed that it trained Inkatha members at a camp in the Caprivi Strip in northern Namibia . |
| 28 | On Aug. 12 , the UN Special Commission confirmed that it had borrowed a high-altitude U-2 US spy plane to conduct aerial inspection of suspected Iraqi weapons sites . |
| 29 | Reacting to calls for the lifting of the 28-year-old state of emergency , a government spokesman confirmed that it would not be lifted before the elections . |
| 30 | At a Franco-German summit on Sept. 18 , 1990 , immediately before German unification , France confirmed that it would reduce the 46,000 French troops stationed in Germany to 26,000 within two years [ see p. 37718 ] . |