1.   When agreement is reached close the deal quickly and immediately confirm the agreed terms in writing in a heads of agreement.

2.   An EU spokesman in Brussels could not immediately confirm the report.

3.   Because most orders are confirmed almost immediately, they assume it really works that way.

4.   Belgrade claimed its forces had shot down a second NATO plane, but this was not immediately confirmed.

5.   A congressman said three people were killed, but it could not be immediately confirmed.

6.   A BT spokesman could not immediately confirm the report.

7.   A spokesman for the Police Department, which has since merged with the transit police, said that he could not immediately confirm that account.

8.   But Palestinian officials did not immediately confirm that claim.

9.   But state health officials said they could not immediately confirm the disease.

10.   But the authorities could not immediately confirm that.