Example sentences of "to confirm or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maran and colleagues attempted to confirm or exclude a difference in responses to induced hypoglycaemia as previous studies had lacked the necessary statistical power . |
| 2 | The Academy has ‘ reserved the right to confirm or annul ’ the changes after an undefined ‘ period of observation ’ . |
| 3 | Your investigations , Mister Cowley , have not led us to any further evidence to confirm or clarify the intentions of these men ? , |
| 4 | Naturally , some of these indications are quite likely to be related to problems other than faulty vision , but since sight problems may be causing them , a screening test which is , after all , quick and easy to perform should help to confirm or rule out defective vision as a reason for concern . |
| 5 | Senior members of both firms refused to confirm or deny the story last night . |
| 6 | British Aerospace added to the speculation by refusing officially to confirm or deny the story . |
| 7 | BAe refused to confirm or deny any interest . |
| 8 | Moore refused to confirm or deny whether it was true . |
| 9 | The Parliament must have the power to confirm or deny the Councils ' nominee as President of the Commission , and then to approve or not the President 's choice of Commissioners — and subsequently to sack them if necessary . |
| 10 | And I certainly would not be there to confirm or deny it . |
| 11 | We duly wrote to the CAA , asking them to confirm or deny this practice . |
| 12 | Nothing could persuade him to confirm or deny . |
| 13 | I understand Tennant , an American , met Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam 10 days ago but he refuses to confirm or deny their rendezvous . |
| 14 | ‘ We are under instruction not to confirm or deny anything , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , who refused to confirm or deny an interest in £3m Coventry winger Peter Ndlovu , had clearly had better weeks . |
| 16 | Major Vine , thus unable to confirm or deny the sound which had so alarmed his Colonel , merely offered a bad-tempered scowl as a reply , so Colonel Ford looked past him to seek the opinion of the Captain of his light company . |
| 17 | Government sources declined to confirm or deny the contents of the list , but MPs believe some of the services will almost certainly figure in the Queen 's Speech setting out the legislative programme for the next session of Parliament . |
| 18 | Had someone insisted he had seen me in Romorantin , or further afield , I should not have been able to confirm or deny the sighting . |
| 19 | Sabine is not here to confirm or deny their conversation , and neither can she confirm or deny how much of her work went into the Durances . |
| 20 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place . |
| 21 | He may wish to confirm or deny those figures . |
| 22 | The Hospital has refused to confirm or deny a report that the woman fell from an eighth floor window . |
| 23 | Managers at the Landing Gear factory have so far refused to confirm or deny the report that up to two hundred jobs are to go . |
| 24 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 25 | A final decision is expected in the next two weeks , although the Government yesterday refused to confirm or deny reports that it was to scrap the registers . |
| 26 | The White House declined to confirm or deny reports that the Bosnian president , Alija Izetbegovic , had sent an appeal to President Bill Clinton for US airdrops to get supplies to Muslims trapped in eastern Bosnia . |
| 27 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 28 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 29 | We were , that is to say , in the strict sense of the term immoralists … we recognised no moral obligation , no inner sanction , to confirm or obey … |
| 30 | This project will help us to confirm or reject this hypothesis . |